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> zero pollutants In some cases it was pretty extreme by modern standards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
by wqaatwt 1y ago
> zero pollutants
In some cases it was pretty extreme by modern standards.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
Living in a longhouse full of smoke and no chimney might not be the healthiest thing.
- coldtea 1y agoThat's a very late specimen, and in fact one which "led scientists to speculate that he was involved in copper smelting", hardly typical of revolutionary timescales. In evolutionary timescales, agriculture and permanent houses are a dot in the timeline, there were no longhouse dwellers for 95% of homo sapiens' history, and none at all for hominids before homo sapiens. They were nomadic foragers.