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To: struggle

> The skeletons, mostly of people who died in their 40s, dated from between AD 200 and AD 400...

IOW, no. And 25 wasn’t the expected life span for that era.

4 posted on 11/02/2014 7:49:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

To: SunkenCiv

they didn’t have a high refined-sugar diet and processed food diet we live off today.

5 posted on 11/02/2014 7:53:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)

To: SunkenCiv

Life expectancy was lower, because there was a high rate of mortality for children. The bulk of them died before 5 years old.

However, if you managed to reach the age of 5, than the odds of you living about as long as we do today was surprisingly good.

6 posted on 11/02/2014 7:54:45 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)

To: SunkenCiv

>>IOW, no. And 25 wasn’t the expected life span for that era.

Yes, it was.

7 posted on 11/02/2014 7:56:43 PM PST by struggle

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