30,000 Years Ago: Granny Rocks!

How interesting. And, I suppose, communities were caring for their elders, and perhaps also for the sick and the injured, so that people could make it to a more advanced age.

I wonder if cooking also had something to do with it. Without oral hygeine, thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds could've been toothless, and it's a lot easier to eat cooked meat, grains and vegetables than raw if you can't chew.

In the U.S. city slums children with grandmothers have a better chance of survival than children without grandmothers.

One of the horrors of AID's in Africa is that the disease is killing a generation of women, eliminating a generation of grandmothers, their physical help and their oral traditions.