caveman dopers

[shijinn]

waitaminute, i wonder how cows are like before they became… erm, cows.

Originally posted by **Phlosphr **
Most likely, you’d have to kill the dominent male and take his harem, mate with them, and establish your dominent role. Otherwise outsiders were most likely killed. Unless you were dropped off as an infant.

paging for arnold terminator

Steelerphan, taking over the wiseman position is a very good idea, no defending yourself from the agressive ones trying to take over the position of alpha; and everyone knows (from the movies at least) that the resident sage is usually the longest lived in the tribe. btw what would you suggest for the low tech supernatural tricks?

DeadlyAccurate, thanks. it’s added to my list.

caveman, are your people hairy?
ok. metallurgy. let’s looks at the forge first, since this will be where we’ll get our wheels and pulleys and all the other stuff suggested. IANABlacksmith, so bear with me… i’m browsing through howstuffworks.com that Sublight suggested. they’re describing a bloomery used in ancient times to smelt iron ore. here’s what we need at least… [ul][li] iron ore, charcoals, clay, peat etc - anyone knows where to get some? we’d have to dig for them don’t we? can we mine enough iron ore without metal tools in the first place? a bloomery - they didn’t describe how and what it is made of. the description says it needs to be airtight at the base and withstand the 1300 degrees celcius needed to melt the iron ore. [/ul][/li]
this will take some time…

[Peanuthead]

Zymurgy!

[Aankh]

Remember H.G.Wells’ The Country of the Blind?

Ignore me…I’m just a boring old party pooper.

[Mangetout]

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Bruce_Daddy *
**In order:

Agriculture (Corn, rice, wheat, barley and cotton)

[quote]

How are you going to manage that?
Corn - America
Rice - Asia
Wheat, Barley - Mesopotamia
Cotton you might be luckier with, as this was independently cultivated from wild sources on several different landmasses.

Candle and soap making (where does one find lye in nature?)

Fat + Bonfire ash = soap (well, you might need to experiment a little)

[Mangetout]

*Originally posted by Bruce_Daddy *
**In order:

Agriculture (Corn, rice, wheat, barley and cotton)

How are you going to manage that?
Corn - America
Rice - Asia
Wheat, Barley - Mesopotamia
Cotton you might be luckier with, as this was independently cultivated from wild sources on several different landmasses.

Candle and soap making (where does one find lye in nature?)

Fat + Bonfire ash = soap (well, you might need to experiment a little)

[Bruce_Daddy]

*Originally posted by Mangetout *
How are you going to manage that?
Corn - America
Rice - Asia
Wheat, Barley - Mesopotamia
Cotton you might be luckier with, as this was independently cultivated from wild sources on several different landmasses.

[CCR]
Do, do,do, lookin’ out my backdoor.
[/CCR]
You see, cavemen have to live in my state:

Here’s everything but rice but they used to grow rice many moons ago.

Fat + Bonfire ash = soap (well, you might need to experiment a little)

Boil them together?

[misstee]

Those cavepeople had some neat tattoos.
I could be the one to do 'em.

[Futile_Gesture]

I would take my lead from HHGTG.

Form a number of working committees to examine the feasability of each technological advancement, reporting back to an overseeing authority who can then review the options and author managerial guideline documents for initiation of seed-developments leading, in the fullness of time, to training schemes for the selected technologies.

Then make leaves the currency, and burn down all the trees to prevent hyper-inflation.

[Futile_Gesture]

Or even HHGTTG.

[The_Mad_Hermit]

btw what would you suggest for the low tech supernatural tricks?

One would be to build the still yourself (probably during the period where you observe the tribe, before you approach them.) Make as much alcohol as you can, then fill a small ravine with brush. Pour the alcohol into a puddle at the bottom of the ravine and invite the tribe to a good viewing spot, then invent some mumbo-jumbo spellcasting and throw a lit firebrand into the ravine. If you did well the WHOOSH should be impressive enough.

Another would be to get the tribe drunk- or high, depending on what’s available as far as natural drugs.

Amaze the women of the tribe with your modern-day sexual prowess (you can figure this one out.)

Those are the ones off the top of my head; they don’t have to be elaborate ideas to look miraculous- using a lever to move a big rock may be enough, or even just controlling fire.