• Frog@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    i wonder if someone calculated life expectancy without including infant mortality.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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      5 hours ago

      Eh, not really but kinda. The available recorded data for that information is scarce and not a complete picture. Some studies were done but they are centered on things like “expectancy of tenants/landowners” for example, not the overall picture. It’s a complicated topic and I don’t fully understand it myself.

      Though, what I do know, is that through other methods of anthropological and archeological research methods, like examining bones, we are able to prove that people generally lived into their 50s-60s.