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01-18-2011, 06:00 AM
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Sothis, I think you might have fallen for our culture's diminutive and negative mindset about primitive peoples and nature. Sure, the infant mortality rate was somewhat higher for certain native groups (like those living in harsher climates), but the population that made it to adulthood had lifespans on par with modern people. Heck, sometimes they were even longer, the Native Americans were living longer than the Europeans that killed them off (yes, with disease, but foreign disease nonetheless - compared to modern humans their immune systems for dealing with localized/native diseases were much stronger).
If you want to learn more about this read "Original Wisdom" or talk to auroraglacialis, she's kinda the forum expert on this stuff.
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