My idea. Can a modern human survive in 10000 BC

ever not always wrote: »

Had a read through that for my many sins and the majority of it is utterly useless. Take antibiotics. Try and find the right fungus. Use a microscope? Grand if they're around, if not then you're outa luck. Even if you do find the right fungus, you have to refine the active ingredient and even with the best tech and centuries of chemistry under their belts that was a hard nut to crack when it first came along. Run electricity through tungsten to get the first lightbulb. Eh nope. NOt nearly so easy. Carbonised thread would be far simpler and was one of the original ideas and even then it took a lot of trial and error by some of the best minds to make it even kinda viable. Flight? pointless for most of history. Maybe if you sought out Leo DaVinci if that's where you ended up. And you'd have to convince him. Never mind the nonsense about diabetes. Clearly an American wrote that, but back then it would have been one of the rarest conditions on the planet.

10,000 BC? depended on where you landed. Farming had already kicked off in many places so.. Maybe things like crop rotation would be worthy as it will increase yields.

Your likely best bet to get noticed would be in military tech. Gunpowder would be a major calling card and would really get you noticed. The compound bow another. The chariot. Invent the stirrup for horseriding. Major advance and gives more effective cavalry.

Metal working. This is a biggie. You'll need to have a basic grounding in geology. Start with bronze and get them used to that and the heat required is lower. A nice sideline would be gold and silver for jewellery, always goes over well with the big knobs. As you get more practiced introduce iron. Both bronze and iron will also allow you to make more effective ploughs.

Practice with heat will also give you better pottery and more, glass. That's how you get into optics.

Writing. Another biggie. Again convince the big knobs that this writing stuff will allow them to keep tabs of what shit's theirs and the priestly caste can use it to spread the "truth" about their gods. Allows you to transmit information. When they get used to it for a few years, come up with basic printing. Then progress will really explode as others get in on your act.

Demonstrate the scientific method. Tell them a god told you, but you're only an unworthy vessel to keep the priestly caste sweet, and tell them first. Actually fire most of your ideas through the priests and shamans. They're the media of the time, so use it. Keep them on side.

Seafaring and navigation. The compass and astrolabe and cartography. The sail. Tacking with and agin the wind. Show them how to make planked/clinker built boats. With your bronze/iron invent the saw and drill and axe and the nail.

I'd be a god I tells, ya, a god. :pac:

Melanchthon wrote: »

Not anyone, presumably a woman of childbearing age would be taken in by a tribe, and then probably die during childbirth

That seems to be more a thing after we became "civilised" along with farming. Within hunter gatherer societies, while it's not nearly as safe as in modern times it was less risky than later societies. Roman young women would first write their will soon after marriage upon learning they were pregnant. In the medieval and later in churches the most requested prayer for intercession was from pregnant women. These days women live longer than men on average, a couple of centuries ago that trend was reversed. Mad.

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

If you lived 10,000 bce, you'r parents and friends would teach you the things you need to know and do to survive. Foraging, hunting, making shelter and clothes, staying safe from predation.

Which requires quite a bit of knowledge and practice too. Going further back to the paleolithic, the stone age as it were modern humans had slightly larger brains and some have considered that we might have been more intelligent on average than today, or at least we needed more brain power to be generalists. Pre farming there were few specialists, pretty much everybody was involved in every aspect of life and survival, so you had to be a jack or jill of all trades. Everything you used you had to make by hand and you even had to make the tools that made the tools.

What started to mark us out as a species was that on top of all that we added decoration and symbols. It seems people couldn't leave any bit of kit undecorated and it seems that the individual owners were the ones who did it. Though decoration and art appears to be the first specialisation as the signs of small workshops have been found where some individuals were left more free to pursue the making of art. Which could take a very long time. Try carving mammoth ivory with stone tools. Crazily laborious. So they had to be left to do it.