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<blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 9290679" data-attributes="member: 6780330"><p>This a popular myth, but it dies not reflect reality:</p><p></p><p>"<em>There is a common misperception that long life spans in humans are very recent, and that no one in the past lived much beyond their 30s before now. This is not true. There is physical evidence that plenty of people in the past lived long lives — just as long as some people do today. Anthropology professor Sharon DeWitte writes for The Conversation on the evidence that proves old age isn't a modern phenomenon."</em></p><p><em>[URL unfurl="true"]https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-not-a-modern-phenomenon.php[/URL]</em></p><p></p><p>Uh, no, that is inaccurate.</p><p></p><p>Also inaccurate:</p><p></p><p>"One of the oddest myths about the Middle Ages is that people did not drink water. Many books and articles have repeated the idea that water was so polluted during this period that medieval men and women would only drink wine, ale or some other kind of beverage. However, there is plenty of evidence that people regularly drank water."</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.medievalists.net/2023/05/drink-water-middle-ages/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Also less than accuraye: obviously Pasteutized is an improvement, but people were close enough to their sources that this wasn't a big problem until...around the time Pasteurization came about, curiously enough. </p><p></p><p>That could easily happen tomorrow, too: tge Black Death was an unusual event from a small period at the end of the Middle Ahes, in no way typical.</p><p></p><p>Erroneous myths about the Middle Ages are far more common than romanticization, honestly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Parmandur, post: 9290679, member: 6780330"] This a popular myth, but it dies not reflect reality: "[I]There is a common misperception that long life spans in humans are very recent, and that no one in the past lived much beyond their 30s before now. This is not true. There is physical evidence that plenty of people in the past lived long lives — just as long as some people do today. Anthropology professor Sharon DeWitte writes for The Conversation on the evidence that proves old age isn't a modern phenomenon." [URL unfurl="true"]https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-not-a-modern-phenomenon.php[/URL][/I] Uh, no, that is inaccurate. Also inaccurate: "One of the oddest myths about the Middle Ages is that people did not drink water. Many books and articles have repeated the idea that water was so polluted during this period that medieval men and women would only drink wine, ale or some other kind of beverage. However, there is plenty of evidence that people regularly drank water." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.medievalists.net/2023/05/drink-water-middle-ages/[/URL] Also less than accuraye: obviously Pasteutized is an improvement, but people were close enough to their sources that this wasn't a big problem until...around the time Pasteurization came about, curiously enough. That could easily happen tomorrow, too: tge Black Death was an unusual event from a small period at the end of the Middle Ahes, in no way typical. Erroneous myths about the Middle Ages are far more common than romanticization, honestly. [/QUOTE]
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