William Schnell wrote:

> snip
>  In general paleo people did not live
>> long enough to
>> snip

> This comment keeps showing up in this list, but is there any
> real evidence for it? Consider the reported problems with
> recent archaeological dating methods.

I'm sorry but I don't recall exactly how I became convinced that paleos had
shorter life-expectancies. Somewhere along the line I read some literature
that persuaded me that 40ish was a very old age in paleo times. 

One thing is very clear: life-expectancy has increased radically in just the
last few hundred years, thanks mainly to medical science. Paleolithic people
appear to have been healthier than their Neolithic progeny but I think it
would be unreasonable to assume they had life-expectancies comparable to
ours. 

-gts