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Originally Posted by pai mei
In 1900 in the "modern" world maybe, where people worked in miserable conditions. The Roman empire was also a modern civilization : crowded cities, hard work, slaves.
I am talking about hunter gatherers
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Life expectancy of pre Columbian Texas natives was about 24 years. Life expectancy in the Neolithic period was about 20 years.
Life expectancies were similar in Western Europe and in Pre-Columbian indians.
None had life expectancies longer than even early 20th century citizens of developed nations.
In fact, the more "modern" a nation, the more life expectancy has increased.
Hunter gatherers were only marginally healthier than their city dwelling contemporaries, and even then only because infectious diseases spread faster in large cities without sanitation. The health of any hunter gatherer group of any period in time does not compare to that of the modern individual in a developed nation today (and that is mostly because of sanitation and vaccines. Sanitation by itself has increased life expectancy more than any development in any medical field).