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Cancer in the Neolithic?
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Monganaut
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Re: Cancer in the Neolithic?
Jan 26, 2017, 13:25
Thinking out loud here, but I'm guessing trauma injuries/deaths, and illnesses like cancer etc... would have been massively outnumbered (death wise) from infections from quite minor injuries or traumas in soft tissue. Just think of the amount of deaths pre antibiotics, many from quite minor or insignificant injuries if considered in today's terms with the modern treatments we have.

Other deaths would not show up in bone records simply because soft tissue rarely survives. I myself would have been dead at 15 but for modern medicine from a twisted (malrotated) bowel.
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