99.9%of people before the year 1850 didn’t live long enough to get it. we’re talking dead at 55 in the middle ages for sure, 30 for bronze age people.
Ran across some interesting stats from the early modern period (1500s). They were about the marriages of peasants in Central Germany.
The average age of marriage for a male was 30 years old. This was because a guy generally couldn't marry till he inherited the farm. This implies his father, who himself got married around 30, was living on average well into his 60s.
The very low numbers tossed around for average life expectancy are generally skewed drastically by child mortality. If every adult lives to 60 and you have 50% child mortality, you have "average life expectancy" of 30 years.
Don’t know about that, I have been looking at my family tree and I have a LOT of ancestors who lived into their 70s and 80s before 1850.
Psalm 90:10:
"The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."
It sounds like hitting 70 was no big deal 3000 years ago...