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> constant malnutrition the norm rather than the exception so

it was not an easy life, for sure. but, "constant malnutrition" is also incorrect.

[hef19898]

That's not what, e.g., tooth and bone samples tell us. Those tell us that everyone from this period, and as far as the early mosern / renessaince period, went through multiple periods of being under nourished, aka suffering hunger, during their lifetimes.

[slothtrop]

> it was not an easy life, for sure.

Then it wasn't play.

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I didn't say it was continual hard times, did I? I just said it wasn't easy.