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There is no menopause among the Indian women as their average lifespan is in the 30s.
If I understand things correctly, the term “average lifespan” is a bit of a misnomer particularly prior to the Industrial Age since (I’m assuming) it includes the high infant mortality rates. So if you ignore infant mortality, then the average life span was probably more like 50-60 years. You can’t really have a functioning society if you can’t live long enough to rear your kids to adult hood.
This is why Africans will live forever and westerners are dying off. Hundreds of thousands of years living off the land, while the west have negative birth rates after only a few thousand years
This is why Africans will live forever and westerners are dying off. Hundreds of thousands of years living off the land, while the west have negative birth rates after only a few thousand years
Umm, what's that have to do with the topic? Did Native Americans not live off the land?
I have read that hunter/gatherer groups tended to be small and that females did not give birth often due to how long they nursed children and the sheer energy they used to keep up with the tribes movement following animals migration pattern. It was a birth control due to lifestyle.
No, they had herbal bc, and also did abortion via a massage technique. One of the bc herbs was the same one Europeans used, before it was over-harvested in Europe. Also, some Native American tribes were sedentary (more tribes than is generally assumed), and farmed as well as supplementing their diet with meat or fish. (Remember; corn was a staple. It obviously requires farming.) So the hunter/gatherer stereotype doesn't apply. However, nursing their kids for a long time was probably also a factor.
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I said it that Natives were found by the settlers just about everywhere they went. That was after the European diseases had done their population thinning.
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In the eastern half of the modern USA De Soto's group of Spaniards had already made a several year meandering loop that spread smallpox to most of the Southeastern tribes. Spain's failed expedition made later English settlement far easier. The level of development between when his men recorded vs what was found just a hundred years later shows a major downshift in development level and population. Whatever the population of Native America had been it was far lower after De Soto.
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