Wärst du in der Steinzeit mit 35 gestorben? Die Wahrheit ist überraschender

"Stone Age people only lived to be 30 to 35 years old." You've probably heard this number before—and it's almost always misunderstood. This video explains what this famous number actually means, why it's so persistently misunderstood, and why longevity was far more common in the Stone Age than most people assume. Scientific sources underlying this video: — Gurven, M., & Kaplan, H. (2007). "Longevity Among Hunter-Gatherers: A Cross-Cultural Examination." Population and Development Review, 33(2), 321–365. The central study of this video: modal adult mortality of 68–78 years across numerous hunter-gatherer populations (including Hadza, Aché, Hiwi, and Ju/'hoansi). — Wood, J. W., Milner, G. R., Harpending, H. C., & Weiss, K. M. (1992). "The Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples." Current Anthropology, 33(4), 343–370. Basis for the explanation of why skeletal remains systematically underrepresent older people. — Hawkes, K., O'Connell, J. F., Blurton Jones, N. G., et al. Research on the "Grandmother Hypothesis" based on field studies among the Hadza (Tanzania), published, among other places, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. — The Shanidar 1 ("Nandi") find, Iraq: already discussed in a previous episode of this channel, as a concrete skeletal counterexample to the myth of short lifespans. Note on scientific context: The statement "Stone Age people only lived to be 30–35" is statistically correct as an average lifespan from birth. However, it is almost universally misinterpreted in public discourse, as if adults also typically reached the end of their lives at this age. Research by Gurven and Kaplan shows that those who survived the perilous early childhood had a real chance of living to 60 to 80 years old. Subscribe to Survival Code for more stories about how our ancestors actually lived, beyond convenient myths. #Anthropology #StoneAge #Science #Mythbusting