Assuming you would non-willingly time travel to the stone age with your only asset being your inteligence and memories...

Assuming you would non-willingly time travel to the stone age with your only asset being your inteligence and memories from the future..
How would you gain riches and power in the herd?

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I know quite a lot about medicine and how to derive medicine from fauna. Luckily most of my experience is with the american west and since that is where I currently am I should be able to find a fair amount.

As well I know about metallurgy as I have done it as a hobby. Machining and various things of that nature I have more than general knowledge of.

The hardest thing to do would be to find a natural magnet with which to generate electricity to create other magnets. I should be able to recreate the concepts of electricity fairly quickly after that, but would take the labor of myself and others a few years.

Lets say I have 60 years left. Hopefully I can write and preserve enough, while spreading enough knowledge to kick start civilization by a massive amount. Really this is more for others than myself as stone age women are fugly and that's all the real luxuries they have besides that I forge myself.

I would use my superior knowledge of modern existential literature to create a truly enlightened society of free thinkers.

Srs tho, its odd that 99% of modern education would be pretty much worthless in that context.

I would die within an hour.

Impress bitches with basic chemistry

write a secret codex for my heirs, "Buy fuckloads of Coca-Cola stock at ipo, hold until 1990s or 2000 or whatevs. Get out of real estate before 2007"

teach the tribe how to mine for metals
forge some badass weapons and armor
conquer and unite the tribes
become emperor

>Stone age

I imagine I would be beaten to death with a rock for looking different.

You'd basically have to kick the shit outta all of em so I'd make some sorta weapon

Yea the incompetece if the herd would destroy you for being differnt and physically weaker. Much like how our modern society cannibalizes entrepreneurs because of our own stupidity. Without induvidual protection and property you dont stand a chance. i.e you need philosophic foundation before you can do much

Pretty sure I would die of exposure or get stabbed with a rock on a stick before I managed to get any modern tech off the ground. Making something from nothing, with nothing is not an easy task and you would still have to survive somehow while trying to build it.

I'd teach them how to invest!

>"Just buy these futures on stones and short sticks for the long term"
>They have no concept of money, value, or time value of money and very little concept of time itself
>They kill you and eat your limbs

I could teach them (armed) martial arts. Steam machines. Cooking properly. Agriculture. Treating basic wounds. Making some clothes.

I think I'll appease some locals with food to get started. Then start a farm. Domesticate horses for food and sales.

Although domesticating horses might be a bad idea. Perhaps I should get some bunnies instead.

Bunnies are actually a significantly worse idea. It's a fucking marvel that humans domesticated wild hares. Those thing are nasty fucking critters.

>stone age women are fugly
wrong.
stone age humans are exactly the same as modern day humans, evolution takes far more than this.
you should slowly teach them about hygiene and how to dress, and soon you'll have women that look just like modern ones.

as kaku put it: "If a stone age man would shave, bathe and put on a suit, he could walk around on Wall Street without drawing attention"

>appease some locals with food
This, and only this.
There's one thing animals and early humans lived for: food.
Use modern day knowledge to show them that you're the master in knowing how to get food.
I'd start by growing stuff.
I doubt that they knew how planting works, so this would be the first step.
However, till your first harvest it'll be tough, I'd suggest to try living on your own first since they'd probably kill you.

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Invent slavery.

>Introduce foreign diseases
>90% of life on earth dies

You won't, need at least bronze age

i would change the history a little.

also speed up evolution quite a bit.

For any and all time travel of 1000+ years in the past there is one simple thing you can always build to ensure the military dominance of yourself/your tribe/your nation - fucking crossbows.

If I manage to get enough supplies, and a camp together alone, I would pick out a spot to make a killing floor. Setting up some simple traps, pits with sharpened sticks at the bottom, logs rolling down from a tree, basic mechanical stuff, I would overdo it to the point that If I could keep on my feet I could kill every one of them without having to go toe to toe, and having half of them fail to hit the mark. This is assuming I had modern clothing, I would be wearing sneakers, and I would attempt to lure them out in the rain. Making them less mobile barefoot in the mud, and giving my traps a better chance of getting them. If that goes well enough, and I am not beaten/stabbed to death in that time. I will tie the ones I killed from the nearby trees to where I had done the act. In the unlikely event that I don't die from clubbing, or exposure through this act, I am confident that with my new status as a immortal warrior that slayed half their tribe, I could get them to surrender. I would not let them near me, I would bring them to the place, leaving the bones scattered about on display, and first try to teach them basic English, just enough to get effective communication, writing would not be included yet. During this time, I would be searching for a viable cave to find some small amounts of copper, just loose stuff, I would only need a small amount to make a knife, I would provide a demonstration of this copper weapon, possibly a violent one if they are not acting afraid. Then I will show them the concept of forging, and if I can get this far, we will make our first copper tools, and some basic armor. Once we get this far, my little primitive tribe will be a legend, trained by a immortal warrior, unable to bleed.

Though probably I would kick around in the mud, eating small animals and running from the locals until I caught the cold, or the flu and died.

Well, Tribes don't exactly take well to outcasts, and raids were very common to lone strangers, we know that they killed each other a lot back then, we have found numbers of dudes with spear heads in their body, having clearly died in combat alone, around where they lived, and their belongings. You have to be able to set up a scenario where they understand what you are capable of. Farming is definitely going to be a part of it, but you will need to show more literal power in some way.

maybe you could impress them with simple mechanics.
some small tools that help in everyday life, like scissors.
bad example, since they're quite hard to make, but you get what i mean.

I'd say get food by hunting an animal. Mine some metal, smelt it and kill big animals. Take a loan from the locals.

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Id try to make a primitive ranged weapon and hope my modern clothing and "advanced" weaponry are enough to be feared.

My knowledge is broad but shallow. I could probably improve the shit out of their existing systems, though.
At the very least, I'd introduce them to division of labour and skill specialisation.

They'd likely kill you first.