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Evergreen Dazed wrote: CianMcLiam wrote: carol27 wrote: At the risk of being gauche & crass..no change there then, given the assumed life span of our ancestors, this, the Paleolithic, Neolithic was largely the age of youth( as we perceive it to day?) I realise of course that "time" was possibly not a concept as we have to experience it today. Don't you find that fascinating? These astonishing "cultures" basically may have been "teenage" driven & orientated. Of course in the slave labour driven dynasties, for eg the Romans, the Victorians etc life expectancy wasn't so great for the underprivileged. So, what's my point? No idea, but I get these funny notions. And of course, " teenagers" are a luxury item:) I believe the confusing life expectancy averages for ancient times is heavily influenced by the very high infant mortality rate. People would have routinely lived into old age, once they made it through the tough early childhood years. Depends what you mean by old age. Certainly not the no. of years we'd expect today in Western europe. Some people would have lived into their seventies, not as many as in Western Europe today but then not many people in the world have so many that live into very old age. There would have been people living into the sixties and seventies, probably more than did in medieval Europe when population densities reached historically unprecedented levels. Reply | with quote |  27th February 2017ce 22:56 In reply to: Re: Teenage builders (Evergreen Dazed) |
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