2,000 year old grave with 28 YO and 14 YO found
07-05-2013, 01:10 AM
Quote: (07-05-2013 01:04 AM)Rutting Elephant Wrote:
Not finding much conclusive evidence one way or another. Just assumed it was a lot easier to get killed back then.
Educated people today sort of offhandedly dismiss the high infant and child mortality characteristic of pre-modern times. But it was a fact of life back then.
Sure, if they knew the germ theory of disease in the Pleistocene epoch they could've seen more of their children into adulthood, but that understanding only came after thousands of years of civilization.