• Question: in the stone age how long did an average human live

    Asked by Twilight Fang to Olivia, Amanda, Alex on 16 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Alex Evans

      Alex Evans answered on 16 Mar 2017:


      From what I’ve read, it was only about 20-30 years!

      However, this is probably due to a high rate of death amongst young children (infant mortality), so Stone Age humans that survived to be teenagers might actually have lived to be 40 – 50 years old!

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