Oh I don't know. Martin Luther King Jr. was 26 when he called for the Montgomery bus boycott.
Zenia
Natasa wrote:
It would not be surprising if life expectancy WERE rather short among those people--perhaps there isn't a long culturally determined period of prolonged adolescence. One of the nineteenth century settlers in the Western United States mentions casually that the wagon train was led by a 14-year-old man.
-(Y)