• Nailbar
      12•2 months ago

      I came here to write Dying, but 7 other people had already done that.

        • Nailbar
          1•2 months ago

          Cavemen would have just rolled their eyes when people died back then. Like, pffft, everybody does that.

  • @[email protected]
    41•2 months ago

    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.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 months ago

        I mean depends on how the crops looked; im sure they’d tie me for bog body purposes and toss me in the dip if the crops were bad enough and I went feverish. The gods gotta eat too after all.

  • woodenghost [comrade/them]
    4•2 months ago

    Juggling. I’d find some nice stones or pinecones and teach everyone how to juggle and do some tricks. I also know an ancient game you can play with stones or knuckle bones. And I know some songs. And stories. People in the stone age had lots of free time to pass, so all of these would come in handy.

      • kronisk
        4•2 months ago

        Genesis 38:8-10

        Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother’s wife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother. He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother’s name. And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing[.]

        In all seriousness, since apes do it (a lot), I don’t think there ever were a “first person in history”. It’s more just a consequence of having long enough arms.

        • kronisk
          1•2 months ago

          how that created babies

          Exactly how wasn’t known anywhere before1875, however most humans through history seem to have had some idea of there being a connection between sex and pregnancy. I remember reading about isolated island peoples having other ideas, like the Trobriand people who believed that an ancestral spirit entered the woman’s body and that sex had nothing to do with it. However this article claims those reports are half-true at best; the Trobriand people apparently considers sex necessary for the formation of the fetus, even if it’s not the primary cause. There’s also some speculation that humans became aware of the relationship between sex and pregnancy after the domestication of dogs because of their shorter gestation period. Ultimately, we’ll never know…

      • UhhhDunkDunk [comrade/them]English
        3•2 months ago

        someone’s gotta be up at night, tho! Lots of theories around generational sleep patterns and teen-elderly sleep schedules leave very little time where someone isn’t just normally awake- teens naturally stay up late and prefer to sleep late, old folks naturally wake up early and sleep early.

  • @[email protected]
    5•2 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
          1•2 months ago

          Depends what you mean by shovel. Little wooden scoops/spades might have been a thing, although hands will work nearly as well on soft substances. For bigger jobs the digging stick was the tool of choice, and then baskets to move the rubble or economic load (ocher, tubers) out.

          I’m guessing multi-piece wooden shovels, if they were ever commonly used, had to wait for some level of civilisation. That’s a very difficult thing to make with no proper tools, and not trivial even with. Ditto for bone, and nothing else available in nature is strong and rigid enough under bending.