Archeologists found teens who lived 10,000 to 40,000 years ago experienced the same stages of puberty, including onset of menstruation and voice cracking, at the same ages as contemporary teenagers
did not have TikTok or spend their time sending each other memes – facts so obvious that to point them out is cringe, as the kids today say – but modernskeletons of humans who lived 10,000 to 40,000 years ago, April Nowell , an archeologist at the University of Victoria, and international colleagues were able to infer that teens from that period experienced the same stages“Our work shows that here are these individuals that really fit into their community and contributed to their community, and...
“We know how the skeleton relates to puberty stages, so we were able to look for these specific changes and then be able to infer what stage our teenagers were at when they died,” Dr. Nowell explains. “We know, for example, that girls are also experiencing breast development and we know that for the boys, they’re in that superawkward phase when their voices are breaking.”
Although the average life expectancy at the time was around 33 years, most of the ice age subjects in the study hit puberty by 13.5 years old and reached full adulthood between the ages of 17 and 22, the same as people today. And what did the size of the skeletons’ orbital bones reveal about the powers of ice age eye-rolling?Analyzing the muscle markings of the skeletons also“We can see that they had really active lives, and it’s clear they were engaged in hunting and gathering and fishing and all these things that would be contributing to the overall security and well-being of their community,” Dr. Nowell says.
“There’s always this sort of more negative connotation with teenagers today,” Dr. Nowell says, pointing to how they are portrayed in pop culture asThat negative connotation is not new, she is quick to point out,“There are court cases where the teens are in trouble for congregating on the street corners, or they’re sitting on tombstones, drinking and wearing velvet and lace, which apparently they shouldn’t be,” Dr. Nowell says.
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