You are born 250,000 years ago, one of the very first modern humans to roam the earth. What's on your to-do list?

Vaguely remember that fire can be made by rubbing two sticks together.

Try to make fire.

Fail.

Get kicked out of tribe for wasting time with sticks instead of helping with the hunt.

lick frog

Born back then so no idea of the future probably? Fire was invented like a million years before or around that, so I'm probably cooking food. I like cooking the food. Dying during childbirth??

Go to very deep cave. Then write down "资本主义每一次都会导致法西斯主义"

Develop whatever language exists, find methods of timekeeping and recording history. I vaguely remember something about the first humans getting eaten a lot so maybe my priorities are in the wrong place

Main question is do I have modern knowledge or not?

If yes - then apply everything I know from primitive technology and education. Will try to reach some level of progress, probably will be able to get to steam machines and telegraph in one lifetime.

If no - then will be just strolling with everyone and enjoying nature as usual.

Cry, poop, or do other newborn stuff. But what else do babies actually do? 😆

Look around for some andesite, granite, or flint, and copper. Use those to make tools. Instantly get promoted to the top of the human monkey group because I "know magic" of fire and stone. I'm an apprentice smith.

Probably spend the rest of my life making one of those Roman 12 sided smithing test things that historians can't figure out what it is.

I'm not sure that you meant born because everyone is taking it too literally and it doesn't help make a decent question.

Document everything I can think of for future people and put it in a place that someone will find out but is not that open to be degradation.

I know how impossible this sounds.

Reconsider?

Grunt and probably be dead long before I become an adult.

Not sure how accurate my memory of the modern world map would be for that far back but depending on "where I spawned in" I would try and migrate to like ideal farmland or somewhere I know is good to build up.

If I was near Iberia I'd probably try for Cordoba.... Western America, I'd go for San Francisco or anywhere near Lake Tulare... I'm sure there's more than I am remembering right now.

I wouldn't have to worry about organized religion having immense crusades and could carve out a little kingdom.

Try to make a modest "fortress" out of ashlar blocks or anything I can make primitively. Try to find a way to record as much "hints" towards technological progress for my descendants to follow.

Fertilizer, Germs, Animal Husbandry, Public Works (Dams), Canning, Gunpowder (not idea of gun just explosives, but they'll probably weaponize it), steam power, oil, electricity, refrigeratation, concept of computers.

It'll probably just have to be drawings but if I can find a cool gal and learn her language enough to roll with it then it'll just have to be that, No point in writing it in English.

If I can actually get to the point of building a steam/wobbler engine that would probably be my life goal.

Throw in ancient technologies that are cool like Yakchals(?) and what not to actually survive to that point.

Immediately get wrecked by one of the many megafauna that would still be alive.

Suicide

As a new born I guess:

1. Find my moms breast
2. Drink milk
3. Sleep
4. Pee and poop
5. GOTO 1

Obvious first question, are we friends with dogs yet?

Enjoy the fact that capitalism won't exist for another couple hundred millenia

Survive, get that weird fruit and have sex.

And to go to "there", it seems nice "there", why shouldn't we go "there"? It doesn't have other people "there".

do some weird ass draws on walls stuff

• invent the wheel

confused unga bunga

Jerk it

End the human race before it gets out of hand. Like humans do animals animals or non-western people. today.

Food, water, shelter, sleep?

Punch a tree until it falls. Make an axe out of wood. Use it to chop more trees down. Find shelter for the night. Build a crafting table. Wait until sunrise. Run around until I find sheep. Kill them for wool. Make a bed.

Find a nice waterfall and build a hut by it

Go with the gatherers, fuck the hunters, it better be someone else who ends up eaten by Saber-Toothed Tigers.

Take a nap.