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The news is nowadays so terrible that I was thinking about the future and the past again. What would it really be like if people would go back to a stone age situation? Over in Europe there's nothing much else than ice and virgin forestry. People...

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Majorlatency · M

@val70 Small upwardly mobile groups, able to relocate at short notice would be best. Twenty might be about right. There's rather a lot of variables to take into consideration. It's an interesting thought exercise..

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Magicianzini · M

@Majorlatency 20 = too much body heat (remember, tech)

val70 · 56-60

@Magicianzini It's freezing cold outside. Don't forget that!

Majorlatency · M

@val70 Absolutely, the surviival of small groups not only mastering shelters, hunting, and conflicts have to manage the social structure and overall survivability..

Humanity will be reset..

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

Building underground cities takes knowledge, planning and a cooperative culture. In Iran and North Korea they're capable. Not in the West.

val70 · 56-60

@Roundandroundwego I'm taking about pre-historic time. How big were the groups of people?

Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M

Going from Denmark or Scotland to Spain or the South of Spain for a couple of months was totally impossible

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Northwest · M

@Strictmichael75

What type of boats existed in the stone age??

None.

I doubt they could cross the sea!!

It would be thousands of years before they developed navigation enabling them to undertake multi-months journeys. Taking a maritime route, would have meant a multi-year journey, with no sails, across the North Sea and the North Atlantic. If the weather does not kill them.

A land-based journey, would mean cutting through today's Spain, France, Germany, and Denmark, IF they did not end up venturing into the territories of a dozen of today's european countreies.

Northwest · M

@val70

Evidence that boats existed in the stone age includes discovered, carbon-dated dugout canoes and paddles, such as the 9,000–10,000 year-old PESSE CANOE found in the Netherlands. Neolithic and Mesolithic finds in coastal and wetland areas show logboats (dugouts) with paddles, alongside cave paintings and petroglyphs depicting early maritime vessels

Traveling less than 2 km per hour, with no navigation and right next to shore. and adding at least 1000 km because they would be traveling around, not through.

Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M

@Northwest I agree entirely
No roads as today
Wild animls
Attacked by different cave dwellers a possibility too

Majorlatency · M

With modern day weapons it would not be good..

val70 · 56-60

@Majorlatency Am I right though for the size of the group if someone likes to survive it all?

Northwest · M

Am I right?

About what? Living in caves? Whose cave?

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Northwest · M

@val70

Repeating someone else's words isn't nice. You should have been taught that at school. Back to there and that's clearly the message that I get

As long as you're not someone who attacks someone else just because he questions an opinion.

val70 · 56-60

@Northwest What opinion? That you don't want to answer my answer? You can't even see my question at the end. You don't need to offer an opinion that my proposal of travelling the distance is wrong to answer my question. That shows how nice you are

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