Old age isn't a modern phenomenon – many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too
- Written by Sharon DeWitte, Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
If you made it past early childhood, your chances got better to see your golden years.Grafissimo/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty ImagesEvery year I ask the college students in the course I teach about the 14th-century Black Death to imagine they are farmers or nuns or nobles in the Middle Ages. What would their lives have been like in the face of...
