yeah something like that.Originally Posted by K COSSACK
I know of Neolithic male graves which would make humans about 1.70 in that time, not that much shorter.
Re: short ancestors
yeah something like that.
I know of Neolithic male graves which would make humans about 1.70 in that time, not that much shorter.
Re: short ancestors
I think it was around mid-170cm's here too for men; about the same as today actually.
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Re: short ancestors
hm, i really thought there would be 5 foot tall people..........
but all along ppl were normally OUR hieght...what a load of crap i heard...
Re: short ancestors
Depends on the time and place. Go back a hundred years in about any at-the-time primarily agrarian society, and that wouldn't be particularly unusual. 'S (almost) all about the diet.
Last edited by Watchman; 09-19-2007 at 01:03.
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Re: short ancestors
all ppl eat fruites vegetables and animals.
not much difference to me...........
Re: short ancestors
Yeah, well, couple'a centuries back most folks ate about no fruits or animals, and barely enough other veggies to keep the soul stuck to the body...
And that's only as long as one of the many possible disasters didn't bugger the harvest. The witness accounts of some of the uglier famines are real horror movie material, I'll tell you that.
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Re: short ancestors
There is one thing you need to keep in mind.
Roughly speaking there are two kinds of bread, brown and white.
Brown is healthy and what we all should be eating
White is far less good for you
In Medieval times all noblemen and higher people ate white bread because they thought it was better, while the normal men had the healthy food.
Especially outside of the cities they had more than healthy lives.
Re: short ancestors
AFAIK, they ate a whole lot more bland vegetables (such as potatoes) and a whole lot less meat a hundred years back in the European countryside. Van Gogh's most famous painting out of his early, "depression" phase, De Aardappeleters (the potato eaters) is all about it. Not a whole lot in a potato except starch, and if you eat 'm without anything on the side... Pair that with the occasional famine and you get the message.
Also, I don't think brown bread or rye can really compensate in a diet lacking almost completely in meat, fruit, and a relatively wide variety of vegetables. Besides, what do we eat on our bread today? Precisely. Ten to one your average peasant didn't have anything to put on his.
Last edited by The Wizard; 09-19-2007 at 18:08.
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Re: short ancestors
Potatoes were a New World import, though. One of the better ones (the bad ones included a couple of embarassing diseases...) actually, as it did somewhat improve the food envelope of the peasantry and was fairly easy to cultivate. Plus the things retain a degree of vitamins and other useful thingies even after reasonable amount of preparation.
Around here rye bread wasn't usually eaten by its lonesome. Although given that in the western parts of Finland the practice was to bake the things in batches and let them dry, which makes them damn near hard as concrete even if they keep pretty well, soaking them in some suitable liquid was pretty much a dire necessity to render them consumable again anyway... A fairly common one was the salt water fish were stored in, AFAIK.
Then again, most regions weren't as lucky as fishing possibilities went as we were.
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