Learn why the life expectancy during the medieval period was equal for men and women based on bones that point out past illnesses and frailty.
is nearly six years older for women than it is for men. And this happens throughout the world. Women's higher life expectancy is attributed to a number of factors, including men's greater risk of heart disease due to a lack of estrogen, the fact that men take bigger risks, are more likely to smoke and drink and drive, and that men are more likely to die by suicide.
“It’s a permanent record that you went through something stressful in your life,” Yaussy says. These stressors can and did shorten lifespan. Medieval England — which lasted from 1066 to 1485 — was a patriarchal society with a preference for male heirs, says DeWitte.
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