10k BC peoples had primitive medicine and practical, medical know-how, and people then survived quite serious injuries, such as skull-cracking blows to the head, trepanation, puncture wounds to the torso, broken limbs, massive periostitis, tooth injury etc. (Certainly plenty of people also died from such conditions, compared to today).
Surviving a year in the Final Paleolithic would not be a very big deal to a base-healthy person in good physical condition, provided no human aggression was directed at her and she was accepted by the local community. At that point in time, humans were already the deadliest predator on Earth and fast colonizing the planet, including some really inhospitable environments. They had efficient clothing, mastery of fire and capable weaponry to use on natural resources beyond belief. Many, many modern people have done extensive wilderness trips, some over a year long, without experiencing medical emergencies. People aren’t near as frail as the usual “wouldn’t last a day”-prophesies suggest.
I think people are underestimating how brutal the world was 10,000 or 12,000 years ago. My tooth? No way I’m letting some shaman near that in BC. I’ll take my chances with the modern dentistry of AD. And when I come back after my year, I’ll know enough of the immediate future to invest and bet money very wisely.
I didn’t get that from the OP. It would be nice, but not essential to the fate of the Universe.
I don’t, and I don’t. That’s the difference with travel to the future vs the past, there’s nothing to base the numbers on. Exciting, isn’t it?
I’m not running any numbers, I’m basing my choice on that very fact. The possible scenarios are limitless, 10 000 years is such a vast distance in the future. I’d hope for a psothuman future, but who knows…