Dying, mostly.
Navigation and being the first to try a cool looking mushroom and findout how dead I get.
why navigation?
I just have a really good sense of direction and memory of places and paths.
Usually if I went somewhere even only once, even a year later I can recall how to get there again
oh that’s decent
*invites you to the caveman inner-circle*
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!
That’s a pretty excellent school to go to, hell I wish I had that level of training
Time travel, evidently.
I think excel would be good software for managing hunter rotations, supplies and stone inventory.
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
Or just to better understand how and where to catch them. Don’t forget we hunted all kinds of things to extinction anyway.
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
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.
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
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.
Dying from allergies & asthma.
While still living, the tribe could deploy me as an animal detector: place me at the front of hunting parties, and the moment I start sneezing & wheezing, they know they’ve got prey nearby.
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.
Probably dying at age <1.
Computers! Shit.
Dying.
Dying is not a task, dying is a condition
Not with that attitude
Well, it can be both.
Seppuku is a task
Wouldn’t death be the condition?
“Death” would be the noun, “die” the (intransitive) verb. “Dead” would be the adjective, i.e. the condition.
Although it has to be said that there’s a lot of flexibility and I’m pretty sure you could find valid ways to use each of them in all cases.
Not with that attitude it isn’t.