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It's true that life expectancy used to be very low due to very high infant mortality, but even after that it wasn't easy going: > Based on Neolithic and Bronze
by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
It's true that life expectancy used to be very low due to very high infant mortality, but even after that it wasn't easy going:
> Based on Neolithic and Bronze Age data, the total life expectancy at 15 would not exceed 34 years. Based on the data from modern hunter-gatherer populations, it is estimated that at 15, life expectancy was an additional 39 years (total 54), with a 0.60 probability of reaching 15.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Variation_over_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Variation_over...
- anovikov 7y agoThat's in the times when agriculture became a thing. It meant that people lived in a very crowded way where the limited tracts of very fertile land was, settled and with very poor sanitation. Infections were rampant, and famines in poor crop years, common. Hunter-gatherers had it much better - except there were a lot fewer of them.