If you could go back in time and went to the year 30000 BC, how long would you stay alive from the moment of entering that time?

In they Idyllic, I could conceivably survive for quite a while. In a realistic I would likely not last long. I would not know what plants were good to eat since I was not raised to forage as I went. I know how to test certain plants, but when you are hungry, it isn’t the time to start nibbling to see if something is good to eat or not. I could conceivably capture/kill some small animals as well as figure out how to skin them, but a diet of all protein would just prolong starvation. I have made shelters with materials at hand so I could do that. I could conceivably make a fire platform and start a fire. Water would be potentially sketchy though I do know how to filter water so that it is safer to drink.

Other unknowns would be what predators were in the area. I could make a spear though it would not be a great one. But also I would likely not have the antibodies to protect me from the germs of the period. I would probably get sick over and over again.

A few seconds at most. Even assuming that it is 30000 years on the dot, and Earth 30000 years ago is at the exact same spot in the solar system as it is right now, the solar system itself has traveled 23 lightyears through the galaxy in that 30000 years, so I would pop into the past in the cold, empthy embrace of interstellar vacuum.

As cool as it would be to use my superior knowledge of things like wheels, mechanical advantage, electricity, the germ theory of medicine, basic sanitation and basic agriculture to become a God-King emperor of my own tribe of beautiful women, the reality that they would be smelly, and hairy and have nasty breath and be covered in muck all day kinda makes the whole idea a lot less appealing.

Also, @seawulf575 is likely spot on, assuming I didn’t teleport into interstellar space to begin with…

You say I’m not immediately surrounded by predators, but I presume this isn’t a fictional place so predators do exist. They would find me, and they would eat me. I’m no outdoorsman. I’m not a complete idiot, and I feel like I would be able to jury-rig a shelter of some kind…after a few tries. But ultimately, I would start the clock towards starving to death almost immediately, but I suspect some bear or sabre-toothed cat will get an easy meal before then.

30,000 years ago was the age of giant sloths, mammoth, and sabors. Any place with small mammals had predators. Giant sloth, and mammoth were not predators, but they were definitely dangerous.

However, with pleasant temperatures, I could have survived a long time.
Making fire would likely be my biggest hurdle.
If I landed in north America, there certainly would be plenty to eat, both in vegetation, and flesh. Fishing would be incredible.
At that time, tiny horses were here, and camels. They would have been good hunting. I can understand why they were hunted into extinction. The size of bison, mammoth, sloth, bears made them difficult and dangerous to hunt. Weasel, rabbits and other small mammals are fast, and easily hide. Beavers were also large. Lots of girth makes an animal difficult to kill.
Unlike nomads of the time, I would domesticate service animals to help me forage and carry. Camel would be my main go to for that.
I don’t think I would have the talent for falconry. That would be the best way to hunt smaller game.
Fish would be a main staple. They were both huge, and plentiful then. A low dam, with spears pointed upstream would work well, building when water levels are low, then after rains, the water would flow over.

I have written short fictions about Northern Americans of similar time periods. It was fun, but my work was stolen, so I have lots of do over ahead.
A coastal tribe I invented had a clever system for fishing.

Months and months probably, if not years before withering away from loneliness.

I think I was there yesterday and it was AWESOME!! OMG!

@RayaHope I hope you’re not eating random mushrooms out of the garden again…

Although my question can’t be answered completely, for the simple reason that we can’t go to that time and see for ourselves what it would be like for us to live there, one thing is definitely true, because it can be sufficiently explained by Biology and Medicine – and that need not even be our modern ones, because every past decent ones would say the same.

And that’s what all you have missed so far.

Before some of you start thinking that I’m again playing the smartest person here, just ask an experienced Biologist or Doctor how they would answer this question. I think even a well experienced Psychologist could tell you something in that regard.

When I write my own opinion on it, you’ll probably understand what I mean.

@gorillapaws OMG! I wish I could tell you, I found something that I never knew existed! :D

@RayaHope You found a fey, and they abducted you to the feywild for uncounted years?

@ragingloli That would be “almost” as good as what I found! I think I found the HOLY GRAIL!

I’d probably last a few days, until I got sick from drinking questionable water.

I think it would depend on the weather conditions, whether or not the person was with a group of people, who presumably could help each other out, what weapons were available, how resourceful the person or tribe was, how intelligent the person was. A whole host of variables which makes predicting very difficult.

Before I go, I need to answer my own question, not because I was asked for it, but simply because I promised to do it.

If you could go as far back as 30,000 years, you would enter a world with essential oils, germs and bacteria which your immune system doesn’t know anything about.

You would be considered an alien organism by every single living thing there, and would be immediately attacked. Not talking of huge animals or early Humans, but of all those microorganisms. Your immune system doesn’t have any anti-bodies to fight any of those dangerous poisons, so even a stich of a mosquito or a wasp will probably either kill you or make your blood and/or blood pressure go wild.

Even the essential oils that are theoretically good for you will cause your organism experience an almost immediate shock

And even if you managed to survive that, you’d become thirsty within one or two hours. But the microorganisms in the water of that time will poison you, although they are not poisonous for any organism of THAT time, but your organism won’t have the time to “learn” how to deal with them.

And even if none of that ever happened, you’d be almost instantly killed by what you least expect to be killed by – which is the CLEAN AIR. Your organism is used to an air that is full with different things that were not present at any time prior to the end of the 19th century. Our air would kill an early Human within seconds after being exposed to it. Same way the air of that time will kill you, because your organism is used to OUR air, full with chemicals, not to an air absolutely free from them.

You’ll die in a loosely similar way a drug addict would die, if they abruptly and completely quit taking their drugs. The lack of “poison” would kill them, because they are used to live WITH that poison. For a “clean” person, the administration of that “poison” would be deadly. For an addict, it would be the lack of it.

The PURE air alone, that was every where 30,000 years ago, will kill any person from another distant time.

I’m wondering why someone would ask a question that they already have their own answer to, and then disagree with every person who tries to offer a differing opinion.

It is bs.
You microorganism situation is backwards.
Taking some backwards would be dangerous to the then inhabitants.

Would do fine, die of old age.

Why would I want to? No TV and no internet? Dullsville.

@RayaHope I don’t know what you’re on, but give me some.

@AhYem I don’t care what the egg heads and bearded geniuses say, going that far back in time would be a drag. And dangerous. I don’t relish riding a small ass horse to escape from some giant ass sloth. Send me back to an interesting time period. Maybe the age of Julian the Apostate. A triuely progressive Roman Emperor in a backwards era.

@NoMore If I gave you some, you would go to jail!

(omg, did i just say that?)

On edit: Going back in time that far, I intended to say. I would like to have known Julian, who decreed freedom of worship for all , including heretic Christian sects, Jews, and even pagans at a time when mainstream Christianity had taken over the Empire, hence the name Julian the “Apostate”. He even planned to rebuild the Temple for his Jewish subjects at Imperial expense. He was killed in a battle against the Persians.Only the good die young.

Lol @RayaHope no worries . You trying to get us on trouble again ; )