• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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    23 days ago

    Imagine being born 10000 years ago where chances that you died before adulthood were significant and even a minor infected cut would likely mean your death, not to mention any more serious injury such as a broken bone 🥰

    Don’t get me wrong I hate modern wage slavery just as you do but I also appreciate not being dead yet just because I had a rough accident three years ago.

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      23 days ago

      This is a bit of an exaggeration. There’s evidence that prehistoric societies mended broken bones and sometimes even skull fractures.

      Average life expectancy stats are pretty skewed by infant mortality rates.

      As one example, Otzi the “ice man” had several broken bones early in his life and survived a pretty long time after that.

      https://www.iceman.it/en/the-mummy/