Знаете, если ты не дожил до старости, тебе все равно как ты умер, от болезней или от высокого уровня убийств.Hamster wrote:
Третьего и четвертого императоров убили, а пятый покончил с собой. То, что во всех примитивных обществах дикий, по нашим меркам, уровень убийств (в том числе, смертности из-за войн), с этим я не спорю. Но мы вроде обсуждаем невозможность дожить до преклонного возраста из-за болячек?...
15-30%. Среди женщин больше, среди мужчин меньше.

Я не хочу оперировать данными отдельно выбранных философов или императоров... или цифрами в 15-30%, взятых, как мне кажется, просто с потолка. Посмотрим на более-менее репрезентативные археологические данные. http://archaeology.suite101.com/article ... population
neolithic tomb at Isbister (The Tomb of the Eagles) on Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, produced the remains of 342 people. The age profile of the bones showed a population where children outnumbered adults three to one. The most common age of death was early adulthood, between 15 and 30. Only 1.5% of people were over 40, and very few lived to reach the age of 50. Old age, rather than life, began at 40.
Women died earlier than men, due to the rigours of childbirth, so there were more adult males tham females. Over half of the adults suffered from osteoarthritis. The children fared little better: one who died at the age of six had osteoarthritis of the neck, probably caused by carrying heavy loads. Children were an essential part of the community workforce. Nobody at Isbister died a violent death.
There are good points though. People ate good, fresh food, and the lack of sugar in the diet meant no dental cavities. Stone ground flour, however, led to many people having ground down teeth. Herbal remedies would have been well understood, and used on a daily basis, to cope with those nagging everyday ailments.