>Also keep in mind that where actual data as been available, they show that
>Palelithic peoples actually slightly outlived early Neolithic
>(agricultural) populations.
Don't forget also that when people moved from hunter/gatherer to
agriculturalist, they dropped in height by almost half a foot, their bones
gone thinner, and their incidence of tooth decay went through the roof. I
have references on that score of Ward does not.
Also Stefansson showed that among hunter/gatherers it was common to find
people living into their 50s and 60s and still clear of the degenerative
diseases of civilization. Those who were killed younger were killed of
infectious disease and traumatic injury and childbirth most of the time, a
pattern that continues today.
-=-=-
Once in a while you get shown the light/
In the strangest of places if you look at it right ---Robert Hunter
http://www.syndicomm.com/esmay