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You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somewhere before the advent of mankind, really fuck with some historians

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry to nitpick, but this would be the field of paleontology, not historians.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Im sure itd fuck with both fields

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Akasazh historians could get messed with via paleoanthropologists.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If there's one that could know its you, Livius.

But as I said it's a nitpick. Usually us historians keep to when language became involved. The rest would be prehistorical, but the distinction is not that clean cut (is it ever?).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@Akasazh fair enough; that's a nitpick worth making.

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