Hi, While I think that it would depend on the specific living and eating habits of the people in question, I would not initially consider any date within approx. 10,000 years as safe to call Paleo. AFAIK evidence of agriculture practice goes back at least 10,000 years so I would guess agriculture practice goes back a bit further as evidence degrades over time. I also think that any, all, most human conditions have existed for all of human history but that issues such as Arthritis were uncommon pre agriculture. I myself have Osteoarthritis in a minor joint - I 'drop kicked' a stair by accident and injured the joint - some conditions now associated with an agriculturally based diet can also be caused simply by injuries. Cheers Neil On 30 March 2016 at 22:14, Paula <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Arthritis can have many causes just like headaches can. Arthritis can be caused by injuries, for example. One definite cause for arthritis is food. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paleolithic Eating Support List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Hogan > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 11:21 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [PALEOFOOD] Ancient Paleo man with arthritis? > > https://worldhistoryproject.org/4500BC/the-first-case-of-arthritis-in-humans-in-native-americans-from-tennessee-and-kansas > > On Mar 29, 2016 10:53 PM, Sandy Rzetelny <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi > > My niece told me that she had heard that there was an ancient Human fossil found of a Paleo man who had arthritis. She was trying to prove to me that food didn't have to do with arthritis. I tried to find it on Google but wasn't successful.anyone know anything about this?. Thank you Sandy > > Sent from my iPhone -- Neil C Timms