I am not sure that Neanderthalers reached retirement age. They lived on fresh meat alone, and hunting big animals is a most dangerous profession. All the skeletons found have several broken bones.
Meh, I'm sure they'd let you retire and start coaching after a while.
What a great life-hanging out and spearing mammoths and other paleolithic megafauna with your friends and relatives. It would be like playing pro sports, but where you could barbecue the other team afterwards.
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This is:
A). The real author of the works of
William Shakespeare.
B). A long-lost self portrait by
Rembrandt.
C). The next Secretary-General of
the UN.
D). The brains behind Bernie
Madoff.
Anon.
Former World Heavyweight Champion.
The Great White Hope?
Anon.
Probably White and red-headed.
This one appears to have no hair at all, implying survival to old age; itself unusual in that time.
Anon.
Actually, if you made it past childhood in primitive society, your odds of making it to old age were pretty decent.
I am not sure that Neanderthalers reached retirement age. They lived on fresh meat alone, and hunting big animals is a most dangerous profession. All the skeletons found have several broken bones.
This man, for example, is missing the lower part of his body.
Anon.
Meh, I'm sure they'd let you retire and start coaching after a while.
What a great life-hanging out and spearing mammoths and other paleolithic megafauna with your friends and relatives. It would be like playing pro sports, but where you could barbecue the other team afterwards.
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