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"The gravitational field of the Stone breaks life into its parts, into revelation."
-Peter Makem

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Mera was born sometime in what we call 2855 BCE. She called the village she lived in "Arredon", and it was somewhere in the Yorkshire Wolds, not far from the site of Duggleby Howe. This puts her whole life sometime in what archaeologists call the "Meldon Bridge" period, the late Neolithic in Britain. Mera died sometime near her fiftieth year, making her (by their standards) what we today might call a "centenarian". 10% of the Neolithic and Later Prehistoric Age populations had a life expectancy of around 10 years; some 60% died around age 25, and 30% lived to around age 40. To live beyond 40 was remarkable. What is even more remarkable is that people in Mera's time died of causes that our modern medicine would consider minor, but because of their lifestyle and diet, they had almost no instance of the conditions that kill us today, such as cancer and heart disease.








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