Recent content by Sereninha

The original Q was about work, work and longevity do not have a direct linkage, this discussion seems to have drifted into longevity, OK there is easier evidence there. Hunter gatherers were more vulnerable to individual "events", though less to infectious disease. Farmers have more levels of...

Subsistence farmers did/do all this as well as hoeing the fields in the driving sleet, or baking sun.

Subsistence farmers do/did all that on top of hoeing the field in driving sleet at dawn.

Go look at human remains, cross check joint wear with diet from collagen analysis, Q.E.D. I'm sure if you google about the data is all there. I live in a remote peasant village, their joints give out well before the rest of them, this does not seem so true of paleolithic peoples. I expect there...