Living in the Stone Age

23/10/2025 8 min
Living in the Stone Age

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Get your bone flute and gather around the fire. We're taking you back to the time of woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. You're living in the Stone Age. What tools would you use in this primitive world? How would you communicate with others? Would you have to eat your family?
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00:00:00: What If You Lived in the Stone Age?00:00:46: Ice ages and limited food00:01:53: What would you eat?00:03:08: What would you hunt?00:05:16: What would you do for fun?
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See show notes: https://inlet.fm/what-if-science-theories-possibilities/episodes/681d8620e64c4b83e7e5178b
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