Abstract
Rebecca Redfern of the Museum of London and her team examined bones from 344 individuals buried in rural and urban cemeteries between 1 and 500 AD at 19 sites in what's now Dorset in southern England. The townies had a small but significant edge over country dwellers. Some 34% of them lived beyond the age of 35 compared with 29.5% of county dwellers. Redfern says many of the rural dwellers were likely to have been serfs and laborers for rich landowners, and so lived much harsher lives than the urban folk.
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