At 13.38 -0600 99-04-28, Loren Cordain wrote:
>My scheduled interview on dateline for this evening has been
postponed
>because of the increased coverage of the Columbine High School tragedy
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>will let you know when it is re-scheduled.
Mine was however not postponed - the best known and most respected
scientific radio program in Sweden today sent a 20 minutes interview
with me on the conceptGeneva of paleodiet in
the prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
I would like to comment on life span in past populations but I have too
little time at the moment. To put it short, age estimates from human
bones are very uncertain indeed above the age of 40. Even a complete
skeleton from someone who is supposed to have died at the age of 50
could well have passed 80 years of age.
1. Arcini Caroline (1999). Health and disease in early Lund:
Osteo-pathologic studies of 3,305 individuals buried in the first
cemetery area of Lund 990-1536 [PhD Thesis].
2. Isçan, M. Y., Kennedy, K. A. R. (1989). Reconstruction of life
from the skeleton. New York, Wiley-Liss.
3. Saunders, S. R. and M. A. Katzenberg (1992). Skeletal biology of
past peoples: research methods. New York, Wiley-Liss.