Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans

Re:Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Amer... by snozolli on Saturday December 14, 2024 @09:25AM (#42417332)

Maybe I'm misreading something, but it looks like you cited the expected lifespan at birth. To the right, in the paleolithic section, it says:

life expectancy for the 60% reaching age 15 averages 39 remaining years.

So the average expected lifespan of someone who reached 15 years old was 54 years.

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Re:Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Amer... by sirtaj on Saturday December 14, 2024 @09:38AM (#42417406)

I'm citing the neolithic data one row below it, since 13,000 years is near the end of the paleolithic era.

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Re:Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Amer... by thaumasiotes on Saturday December 14, 2024 @09:49AM (#42417462)

How does that logic work? Doesn't it imply that you'd prefer the paleolithic row for a date 11,000 years ago?

Has anyone revisited the question since 1969?

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Re:Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Amer... by sirtaj on Saturday December 14, 2024 @10:05AM (#42417547)

I've no idea, I'm not an anthropologist. Are you?

Here's how the logic works: I am stating that a person who clearly has a bone to pick with people who say red meat is bad for you, is misdirecting their ire in a thread about people who ate a lot of red meat 13,000 years ago. If you want to push the expected life expectancy I quoted up by 10-15 years, please do so, I don't mind.

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