Post-apocalyptic TL 5/8

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Originally Posted by Nosforontu

I would guess that they could probably maintain fairly high TL technology level in regards to agriculture/ranching. We already have TL 8 seeds and have been breeding various food animals to be bigger and bigger. If they survive your apocolypse then then we are likely to have higher food yields compared to historical TL 5.

The apocalypse is ongoing and serves to depress crop yields both by occasionally infecting crops and by enforcing a whole host of complex food taboos.

Secondly we could probably maintain fairly high tech levels in various softer scientific fields such as psychiatry/socialogy/economics with just the books surviving and an interest from the population.

Yeah, especially since Telepathy is a thing.

Third in terms of medical tech, I suspect we could probably do a better job than historical TL5 in terms of disease prevention from just our better understanding of Germ theory and Sanitation.

Enough to change the medical TL to 6 or higher for First Aid and Physician rolls? Of course Germ Theory is solidly TL5 already.

Fourth we are probably going to get a number of knick knack techs that survive such as Blue Jeans (first invented in 1873), Hollywood Holsters rather than historical holster choices. Overall thanks to historical documentation the post apocolypse society can probably skip a significant amount of the experimentation period of tech developement cycle. Since they have teh historical documentation to go off and are simply reinventing tech rather than developing it for the first time.

Yes and this was the sort of detail I'm looking for here. What items and techniques that are technically TL6-8 by date of introduction but are totally possible for cottage industry production at TL5?