looking like that...most likely not a Don Juan. so hunting and fishing, i could scare anything to death...
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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.
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.
eh beauty is relative and you'd get used to it. It sounds like you'd be the village sandwich maker, and yes I can imagine that being a very prestigious position
Dying from a decease.
Not being on the internet
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
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I want to say "crossfit".
stoneagers would trounce any of us at crossfit
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
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 can imagine you making a rock hammer, and having to sit there and justify to people why the end has that weird flange. "It's for pulling things out!"
Right, come to think of it, I definitely would be the weird guy that doesn't understand how the community works. I couldn't speak their language, wouldn't know their common practices and hierarchy.
I'd likely go (be exiled) on my own lonely journey (aaand thus quickly die).
I'd be the hairless monkey that stays up all night and talks to plants
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tool making most likely. also fire keeping, and cooking.
Hitting people with a cudgel
I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.
Feeding the living with my body
Selling camping gear
test plant on grug before eating
Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! ๐ Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general
min-maxxing my sticks
Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.
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.
Soap is super important, as for math - I'm guessing it's going to need to be geometry based before they can grok irrational numbers, or hell, symbolic notation in general