Were Mesolithic people unusually healthy?

Were people in the Mesolithic healthier than later populations until modern times?

Possibly, but the surviving skeletons may overrepresent people in unusually good condition and therefore require caution.

The claim is treated as plausible but not automatically proven by the surviving skeletal record. Some samples may disproportionately preserve people who were in the best physical condition, creating a form of survivorship bias. The point is deliberately tentative: it identifies a possible limitation in the evidence rather than replacing one firm conclusion with another. The people visible in material remains may not be statistically typical of everyone who lived in the period.