I've finished all of the puzzles and the only award I really have left to get is the "Ancient Elder", to have a villager live to the age of 90. I've got everything researched and my villagers are healthy with plenty of food, but none of them really live past their 70's. Is there a trick to this?

I guess it helps if the tribe is a Nature tribe, but, no, there doesn't seem to be much you can do. I've tried baby-sitting elders and kept feeding them potions to make them well, but this didn't make them live longer than others. However, I've come very very close to getting a 90 year old. I had several die at 88 and 89, which was so frustrating. I think it might be a waiting game and eventually you get lucky.

One thing that really seems to help is to make sure that your villagers have plenty of food, a bunch of farmers, several trained doctors, then leave the game off for several days. More often than not, you'll turn the game on and find that you have had several villagers live beyond the age of 90. Don't do this if you're not willing to have villagers die, though. When I've done this, there have been only deaths from old age, since my village was healthy and well established, and I was just going for the Ancient Elder award.

Agreed. My villagers never seem to make any breakthroughs when I'm LOOKING, dangit.

i had to go away for 5 days and had shut off my beginner games but forgot my old game, came back expecting to find skeletons everywhere, but they did ok, still had around 60, and lo and behold had had 10--90+ year olds..

its a hard award when there is nothing you can do to accomplish it.........well except not play it......

I had one male villager live to 98yrs old. My oldest female was 95. I didn't play my tribe for a day or so. when I came back, they had already died! Looked at Roster and was suprised to see their ages. The female that died was the one in my avatar. I will miss her dearly.

When you say leave the village alone, I assume you mean to let it run for several days at slower speed, not pausing it... correct?

I left mine alone for a few days at 2x speed and got a bunch of 98 yr olds.