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| ▲ | lukan 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | But those who did not, got quite old without ever seeing a doctor. (If we are talking about hunter gatherers, not poor exploited peasants) | | |
| ▲ | steve_adams_86 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Humans have assisted each other medically, supported injured and disabled tribe members, and sought out medicinal herbs since long before history was written. I'm not sure how you'd delineate between modern health care and when humans never had some notion of health care and/or support when bodies enter failure modes. We don't survive well without a lot of assistance and care, and living long lives required plenty of bodily maintenance regardless of how fortunate and healthy we were. | |
| ▲ | 1attice 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Citation required | | |
| ▲ | Fezzik an hour ago | parent [-] | | Gurven, Michael & Hillard Kaplan (2007). “Longevity Among Hunter-Gatherers: A Cross-Cultural Examination.” Population and Development Review, 33(2), 321–365 If you made it past age 5 as a hunter-gatherer you’d likely live to 50-60 years of age. | | |
| ▲ | 1attice an hour ago | parent [-] | | Interesting. Yet as someone approaching the first of those two last numbers, I would say that that isn't very old at all | | |
| ▲ | Fezzik an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It’s also worth noting that, while this is (I think) likely the most cited paper on the topic, all the observed societies are from the 20th century. So we can’t necessarily extrapolate from that that hunter-gatherers 300,000 years ago fared the same. | |
| ▲ | exe34 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Old people are at least 20-30 years older than I am. |
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