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Prehistoric Britain forager

Gathering plants and repairing tools · Find food and tend the embers

Clothes: Imagined hide covering; exact cut unknown
Home: Small temporary waterside shelter
Work: Gathering plants and repairing tools
A day: Find food and tend the embers
Life conditions: Seasons and group cooperation matter

Today you collect dry fuel. Back at the shelter, you repair a stone blade handle.

Base draw probability: 4.17%

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British Museum — Prehistoric Britain school resource

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The first draw is free and includes 1 redraw. Redraws exclude the current result, so their probabilities differ from the base draw.

Probabilities are authored game weights, not historical population shares. A scenario is drawn first, then a uniform year within its range; there is no year zero. Outfits, personal lives and days are fictional placements in historical contexts, not reconstructions of real people. Redraw probabilities are conditional because the current result is excluded.

A random game for entertainment. It does not assess real fate or personal traits.

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