Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

[John Thornton]

Native American life expectancies were not much different from most of the
worlds life expectancies.
Douglas Ubelaker, Rebecca Storey, and Christopher Ruff have given the
following estimates.
30.5 years for 'Texas Indians'
24.7 to 42.9 years for 'Pecos Pueblo Indians'
33.0 years for 'Mississippian Indians'
For comparison Peter Razzell estimates life expectancies in English villages
at 31.6 to 34.0 years
Yves Blayo estimates French villages at 27.5 to 30.0 years
Japanese estimates range fro 35 to 55 years in different studies
Chinese estimates range from 29 to 36 years (most Chinese estimates assume
higher than world average infanticide of females)
These figures for all but Native Americans cover the years 1600 to 1800 with
some overlap.
Native American figures are for pre-columbian years (before the influx of
diseases from overseas)
John Thornton

From: "Cian O'Connor" <
>
> What was their life expectancy? And how good were at
> they diagnosing such things (one culture's natural
> death, might be anothers cancer).