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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 4825124" data-attributes="member: 463">Monogamous high-latitude agricultural societies like medieval europe are likely to be different from polygamous tropical hunter gatherer groups, though.My understanding is that depending on the era and social class, it was not uncommon for women to marry late, around mid '20s.  They would normally have their first child shortly after - often very shortly - and if they survived, would continue having children at brief intervals up to around 38.  But with land scarce many women never married, and women very very rarely had children while unmarried (if an unmarried girl had a child it might be officially her mother's child, and she the sister).BTW I remember reading somewhere that nomadic societies women would have a child every 3-4 years, compared to 1-2 years in agricultural societies, since a woman could only carry 1 child and older children needed to be able to walk.</blockquote>