Originally Posted by
79pmooney
Pre-agriculture, there is good evidence that people both lived into their 90s and that they had excellent bone health at that age. Yes, many did not live to see adulthood but that might have been deliberate to maintain tribe size to within available resources. (A completely pagan concept - limit human numbers instead of reproducing and nurturing those lives to the oblivion of the planet as we know it.)
Got any links to the evidence for this? Genuine interest.