My idea. Can a modern human survive in 10000 BC

Skyrimaddict

Was thinking this, would a modern person be able to survive or even thrive of you found yourself in the past?
Was reading about how the Egyptians made the pyramid and thought would wonder how would I fare if I went back in time.

What do you think would help of it happened?

Ten of Swords

I wonder what would get you first, starvation/hunger or extreme internet deficiency

touts

Sure wouldnt all the hipsters be grand with their caveman beards and Paelo diets.

Paddy Cow

Not a chance. I couldn't even make a basic fire without firelighters and a lighter.

coffee_cake

i'd be fecked

Galwayguy35

The average Joe Soap wouldn't have a hope of surviving.

Living in a cave during the Ice Age and having to go out and kill something every day for food and also avoid becoming some predators dinner, most of us would be dead in a day.

wally79

Can I bring some guns?

Insect Overlord

Learning one of those proto-languages would be pure awkward too.

wally79

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Learning one of those proto-languages would be pure awkward too.

Probably wouldn’t be an issue after you infect the entire population with some modern bug

Irishphotodesk

Skyrimaddict wrote: »

Was thinking this, would a modern person be able to survive or even thrive of you found yourself in the past?
Was reading about how the Egyptians made the pyramid and thought would wonder how would I fare if I went back in time.

What do you think would help of it happened?

That depends on if you believe the history we are told [takes off tinfoil hat]

This is it

Did they have quick charge back then?

Dr Bob

Get a copy of this book and you're laughing..
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler https://g.co/kgs/4fQ3vV

Actually get it anyway as its really good!

peasant

If I could arrive fully clothed and with bag full of basic tools (firelighter, knife, saw, axe, rope..that kinda thing) I might perhaps stand the tiniest of chances.

Fall out of the sky naked as a babe...I'd give myself about a day and a night...or the appearance of a sabre tooth tiger...whichever comes first

Woke Hogan

I think would be fine. To be honest, basic survivalist skills aren't as difficult as people would think. It might suit some of you to give making a fire out in the wild a go, rather than sitting on your arses on the computer all day.

Then it would be a simple matter of integrating into a local tribe by learning their language, assuming I wouldn't immediately be sold into slavery or murdered by anyone I encountered.

4068ac1elhodqr

TV show: Naked & Afraid (DMAX) does exactly this (in approximation).

Find a fresh water source, improvise boots of palm leaves & twine, start a friction soapstone fire, lash up a quick A-frame/lean shelter, pick up split flint and bigstick (ideally viable as an atlatl), then go bate something furry. Drag it back, cook it and wear it as a nice jumper & hat.

Day two, upgrade to nicer cave, use the jumper and some berries as a gift to a suitable healthy seed carrying vessel. Craft a wooden flute to romance this Cavelady with melodic renditions of boyzone-esq tunes and chest beating. Later initiate propogation under a starry sky, (but not until the 3rd cave-date), after a session of charcoal cave wall painting.

coffee_cake

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I think would be fine. To be honest, basic survivalist skills aren't as difficult as people would think. It might suit some of you to give making a fire out in the wild a go, rather than sitting on your arses on the computer all day.

Then it would be a simple matter of integrating into a local tribe by learning their language, assuming I wouldn't immediately be sold into slavery or murdered by anyone I encountered.

i'm alright with just playing some beat saber ta

Sleeper12

Skyrimaddict wrote: »

Was thinking this, would a modern person be able to survive or even thrive of you found yourself in the past?
Was reading about how the Egyptians made the pyramid and thought would wonder how would I fare if I went back in time.

What do you think would help of it happened?

I've been to Egypt. Modern Egyptians can't safeguard the pyramids let alone build them. They definitely aren't the descendants of the pyramid builders. More likely the descendants of the tomb rubbers.

Feisar

We are pack/social creatures. Since anyone dropped back 12000 years ago wouldn’t have a hope in fitting in I’d say survivability would be close to zero.

Capt'n Midnight

Ten of Swords wrote: »

I wonder what would get you first, starvation/hunger or extreme internet deficiency

Smallpox probably.

We had malaria here back in Cromwell's time.

And bears and wolves. Wolves generally don't go for people but Irish ones did.

Worldwide lots more big critters. Even if the wouldn't eat you, they wouldn't be as afraid and might decide to take a shortcut through you.

Or just infection from a bad cut.

Or drinking the water, though 10,000 BC it wouldn't be too bad.


No health and safety back then.

No police.

Depending on where you were human might have been on the menu.


Starvation could just be a matter of bad timing. In a good year there'd be tough times. In a bad year ...

Ten of Swords

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

No health and safety back then..

:eek:




Op, it seems the Natufians would have been one of the more advanced civilizations around that time period so make sure you zap yourself back to what is now Israel and you'll be fine

Capt'n Midnight

wally79 wrote: »

Can I bring some guns?

Yeah sure knock your self out.




Useless without bullets. Or a way to make them. Or tools to repair and adjust the guns.

And they'd get taken off you the first time you fell asleep.

TheRepentent

Tiana Teeny Goggles wrote: »

Day two, upgrade to nicer cave, use the jumper and some berries as a gift to a suitable healthy seed carrying vessel. Craft a wooden flute to romance this Cavelady with melodic renditions of boyzone-esq tunes and chest beating. Later initiate propogation under a starry sky, (but not until the 3rd cave-date), after a session of charcoal cave wall painting.

Never seen that in Naked and Afraid:eek:

jaxxx

No way in hell were the pyramids built by humans alone. Look at the size of some of those stones, even modern technology would struggle to move the largest of them. Aliens, definitely aliens.

ever not always

Woke Hogan

bluewolf wrote: »

i'm alright with just playing some beat saber ta

What?

biko

I'd be dead before nightfall.

I can barely survive in 2019 AD.

gozunda

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I've been to Egypt. Modern Egyptians can't safeguard the pyramids let alone build them. They definitely aren't the descendants of the pyramid builders. More likely the descendants of the tomb rubbers .

...did they rub out some pyramids or ?

Upforthematch

A modern irish human couldn't survive with an indigenous tribe living in 2019 never mind 10000bc. Imagine no internet, no Tesco, no dishwasher!!!

Your Face

As long as I find the Monolith before everyone else.

kneemos

Would it be that much different from ending up living on the street?
You wouldn't need to kill, gut and cook your food, but there would be predators and disease.