What task would you excel in if you lived in the Stone Age?

Dying.

I’d be the best at powershell. Unfortunately I wouldn’t live very long.

Yelling yabadabadoo and sliding down that dinosaur

I know how to make rope, among other things, as an eagle scout, and I have some experience with atatl so, probably dying of fever at 14.

Excel, it wouldn't be useful but I'd still be great at it.

I'd probably be something of a builder/ "engineer."

I'm not actually an engineer, but I have a knack for utilizing what I have around me or simple enough objects to serve other goals. I suppose I'm what people used to call a Macgyver or "mechanically inclined."

Storytelling & oral sex.

With or without my current knowledge?

Because I'm pretty sure I could smelt Iron with what I know, and a year or two of experimentation. So the answer would be "ending the stone age".

Without? I dunno, maybe building traps and snares.

Dying

I would invent God so others would do all the hunting and gathering for me while I partied in the cave basement drawing on the walls.

I’m pretty good at thinking outside the box and innovating, so I’d probably just die.

I'm a natural at shooting a traditional bow.
I know every edible plant in my area, and some that get you high.
I can find north without a compass, day and night.
I can make a fire from things I can gather in the woods.
I know how to safely fell a tree, split logs and build a shelter with hand tools.
I know how to act around most predators and have experience handling a spear.

I think I'd do reasonably well.
Sometimes I wish I was born in the stone age. My ADHD is completely gone whenever I'm in the wild.

making fire.

Just by knowing how to wash my hands, medicine. Up until 20th century.

drawing dongs everywhere

Dying quickly

Starvation.

dying

Is that Marjorie Trailer Greene?

technical art and programming for video games

Either making elaborate traps and contraptions out of sticks and stones.

Or brain surgery.

Dying, mostly.

Hog cranking

Wanking

I wouldn’t survive long with my poor eyesight. Maybe I’d create tools or something. Love tinkering.

Probably tool making.

It would take time to get back into it, but I was turning out decent knives, spear points, and arrowheads for a while there. Nothing that would blow anyone's mind as art, but pretty enough and usable.

One of those things I did just because I wanted to see if I could, and it turned out to be really relaxing and enjoyable. Arthritis took the enjoyable and relaxing part away, so I stopped, but on a survival level, I could get the job done well enough to make up for being a bottom tier hunter.

Cavernbook: a cavern where everyone chisel his/her photo and his/her thoughts

sucking dick

I've got some decent smithing skills, I'd go looking for bog iron and skip the bronze age.

Time travel, evidently.

Foraging for plants.

Fucking, for sure

Hoarder. Of things that might conceivably be used one day.

You need weird rock? I got weird rock.

Dogs seem to like me so maybe I'd be one of the first to domesticate dogs. I'd probably just live with dogs.

Finding fruit trees. Hunting would be my weak point.

Oh! I'm actually somewhat decent with some useful things. I got sent to a wilderness school for fuck up kids when I was a teen. So I know how to, and have applied a lot of survival stuff.

I know how to effectively make a somewhat permanent shelter. I can make and use a bow drill to make fire, and along the same principal but with much more effort and time I could make fire with hand drill or fire plough techniques. I know how to make basic traps. I can make cordage, and have very, very very basic tracking skills. I know some edible and toxic plants in my area (not exhaustive by any means). I know how to clean and dress game. There's a lot of other stuff, but those popped into my head immediately.

It's been a long time since I've done all this, but the knowledge and know-how is all there. I'd actually be a decent person to have around!

I think excel would be good software for managing hunter rotations, supplies and stone inventory.

obsessing over plants and accidentally dooming the world with agriculture

Everyone alive right now must have ancestors who very literally did live & survive though the stone age and the ages before and after that. Wish I knew what my ancestors did to survive stone age, or better still if I could like watch them in a time lapse video. I guess I might have run away from stone lifting to go be a shepherd or something.

Bronze peddler. "Hello, have you heard of bronze? Just attach it to your axe instead of stone. No more annoying stone chopping! And look, it's shiny!"

i'm a fairly deft hand at pottery. i'm also decent at fiber crafts. depends when and where during the stone age, of course, that's a pretty big expanse. if i'm really lucky, i'd be in one of the many cultures with special spiritual roles for trans folks. i've also got good rote memorization skills, so i can help with oral history.

Not being on the internet

Butchering, I live on a farm and butcher sheep/lamb and chicken is second nature to me ( started when I was 12 )

looking like that...most likely not a Don Juan. so hunting and fishing, i could scare anything to death...

Cave wall art. Carving trinkets and talismans. Might branch out into making spear tips, arrowheads, axes, stuff like that.

Protecting the womenfolk while the other menfolk are out hunting

Engineering and chemistry. You know, sharpening knives/arrows and distilling seawater into salt for food preservation.

If I had my current knowledge, low-level iron forging, agriculture, and architecture (cisterns, wells, deep food storage) and very rudimentary medicine because the wife is obsessed with various herbs that are used to make our modern medicine

If I was starting from scratch, probably just be decent at hunting because I have good hand eye coordination and maybe tracking

I can make soap from fats and lye (from wood ash). Getting the right balance of fats/lye would be tricky; I've never used wood ash so I'd need some time to work out the right formula. But, theoretically, I could make handmade soap for everyone.

Being that person providing a better method halfway through a process. A cave person standing on top of another to cave art the ceiling? Halfway through I go "...You know you coulda just grabbed the log from outside, leaned it against the wall and climbed it". Someone halfway through whittling a bowl? "Oh, yeah, I saw some coconuts on the beach they'd be perfect".

I have the great hobby of Looking At Random Things, but the bad habit of assuming everyone else saw those things too so they must be doing what they're doing for a reason lol. That all said I'm sure I'd be dead from dysentery within a week or smtg, they wouldn't have to suffer me long.

Criticizing people about their hair styles

Reaching things on top of the fridge would be my special skill. I hope they'd create a special government position just for people like me.

Dying from a decease.

I would introduce them to scrumpy, then teach them to grow apples so we can make more.

dying

Breeding

Counting and therefore distributing spoils fairly. I would become a well-loved chief and would probably get laid more than I currently do, although the hairy partners may not be of my liking.

I want to say "crossfit".

Ironically, brute force. I would be great at hunting too!

Absolutely nothing lol. I do tech support for a living and work on cars as a hobby.

I would excel in the use of the internet and computers as I would be the only one with knowledge about it. I would also be the only one who knows how to drive a car.

I guess I could build a cart/waggon for easier transporting the dead animals the other guys hunted. Not sure if that would be much appreciated or if I just would be the weird guy again.

Maybe a plough would be more useful.

And building/improving shelter.

I could also make a fire after failing some time I suppose.

I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.

I'd be a good forager, gatherer and tracker. I have a knack for identifying plants and animals and spotting signs of their presence. I'm sure with a bit of training I could become decent at trapping too but I've never done that.

I'd also be good at art, be that cave wall painting or figurine sculpting/carving.

Coal mining, I fucking love mining coal

You'd be a lot taller and probably also faster (maybe not stronger). You'd become a god-king in no time. Or be killed as a monster.

I'm reasonably good at surviving pregnancy and childbirth, and nursing. Think all my other skills are only useful after the agricultural revolution.

hoardlng stones

Our ancestors measured time to keep track of the breeding seasons of their prey as to not exterminate the local populations... so most likely for that

Being dead

I'd be the hairless monkey that stays up all night and talks to plants

tool making most likely. also fire keeping, and cooking.

Georgia senator by the looks of the picture.

Eating the rich—if they tried.

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Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.

Computers! Shit.

Sleeping and eating

Sloth simulator

Being the cave complex idiot.

perhaps

geometry, politics and drugs

Dispensing elderly wisdom

Mandatory I'd have died more than once, but I suspect I would have been good at mental things like tracking and storytelling. I'd probably suck at everything else, too.

Honestly if I had my current level of knowledge, probably hygene. Teach them to make soap (animal fat and a source of base like ash), wash their hands, keep poop away from potable water sources, stuff like that.

Remember, it literally took until Victorian times to figure out that washing your hands prevents disease.

Also, math. Teach them how to do basic arithmetic, how to use a unit of measurement to figure out how big something is, stuff we'd learn in elementary school but weren't rigorously developed until the Ancient Greek age.