> To accurately determine their location without cheating, the player on the ground would have to find their way to a location which existed at the time, and wh

> To accurately determine their location without cheating, the player on the ground would have to find their way to a location which existed at the time, and whose exact position is known in the present day, such as the Parthenon or Stone Henge. Survival in the wilderness sucks though, especially without a tribe, so for this competition to avoid turning into a snuff film, the contestants would have to be dropped somewhere survivable, which would almost guarantee that the terrain is easily identifiable without human landmarks. I.e. no Antarctica, no Saharan or Midwestern desert, etc. Then I think everyone would just converge on the strategy of finding and following waterways because the probability of being within a reasonable distance of a human settlement with a surviving landmark is relatively low. Most medium to large lakes were formed either millions of years ago or right after the last ice age so between them, local topography, and visible distant mountains it'd be relatively easy to triangulate a location.