People often lived longer.
Meh. As far as I am aware the remains of Celtic and Germanic people we found often fall into that age bracket. Not necessarily because people were more sickly than contemporary people but because they died of sh*t that is easily treatable nowadays i.e. one guy died of a major teeth infection, that spread to his brain.
And even without medicine -for all its downsides- an over abundance of food goes a long way in compensating for semi-dangerous ailments such as a longterm gastritis.
Life expectancy is not the same as actual time people wind up living.
I made it pretty clear in my post that I am aware of that. No idea why you feel to mention it.
You also have to remember that back then, men had actual BALLS and every one of them lived to see warfare, worked in dangerous jobs, etc.
That's without a doubt a vast exaggeration. Most people were concerned with farming, artisanry or hunting and warfare wasn't constant or global. Not saying they were slouches, but your average German, Slav or Celt would never have killed a single man in his life.
Infant mortality rates were probably higher, but are largely exaggerated because A) They factor in low-IQ brown people countries
Child mortality estimates for the middle ages or antiquity in Europe don't factor in _nonexistant_ data from Africa, that's just wrong.
B) they are mostly just kook sh*t "estimates" based on virtually nothing as well.
We do not have a whole to go by, that's definetely true and the nature of archeology.
They actually have no real evidence or explanation and their is a notable lack of child graves and bones from western antiquity.
There are a bunch of children bog bodies from antiquity. But the relative scarcity of 'child graves' just falls in line with the general scarcity of human remains we have of that time and region.
Kinda like how there's an absence of Jew corpses in supposed "mass graves", but I digress.
Yeah, you really do. Absolutely no reason to shove in a half-assed and clichee holocaust denial in a discussion of ancient demographics in Europe. Be less obsessed.
My great grandparents, 100 years ago, had over a dozen children. All but ONE of them made it to adulthood. They grew up dirt poor, had no vaccines, no modern medicine. My grandparents, 70 years ago, had five children (in the developed world) and only one died. So statistically, the farther-back generation had a higher survival rate. Weird!
Such a small sample size has no statistical significance whatsoever. I could bore you with my own family history that tells the contrary story but it is equally meaningless and vague. The improvement of child mortality during the last 100 years is very well backed up and plausible. You could have picked a better example.