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At 09:47 AM 2/23/2006, Sisu West Ranch wrote:
> The answer is that many of them did not survive.  For many 
> generations the average age of death was somewhere under 
> 40.  Disease was a big cause, but accidents also took their 
> toll.  Lots of injuries that today would just be uncomfortable, were fatal.

My point was that there were lots of people riding all around the 
world, so many such that if dying from horse related head injuries 
was so common, it would have impacted the development of civilization.   


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