Some guy in another forum I post in ( a racist) says mayas could not have created the maya civilization.
I recall reading 2 or 3 times while reading articles about maya royal tombs, and the skeletons found always had a rather short height, like from 145 cm to 160 (I may be a little wrong with the heights, but that was the point), which is typical of yucatan native americans.
So I would like to show him (and others in that forum) that, but I cant seem to find any article mentioning the height of the royal skeletons, if I search lord of copan height, maya royal tomb height etc

Maybe you are better than me with google, so please help me if you can.

I don't really know anything about the height of Mayan kings, but how would their being short prevent their building a civilization? It is brains and organization that build civilizations, not the height of their inhabitants.

If the Mayans didn't create and maintain the Mayan civilization, who does the racist claim got it up and running?

Despite Thor Hyerdahl's voyage from Africa to Central America, there is no real proof that anyone from the Old World made it to America before about 1000 AD.

Try a search on Dr. Vera Tiesler, I believe she is the leading expert on mesoamerican osteology and forensic anthropolgy.
If my memory serves me well (history channel), the average hieght of the ancient male Mayan is 160 cm, the female being less than 150 cm.
Whats interesting is that the skeletons from the Maya elite are larger than the average hieght of Mayan people.

I couldn't find anything about the height of the Maya, but I'm not very good with google. Given their diet, they probably were short, but I don't see how that would have impeded them in building a civilization. And who else could have built it anyway? I bet the racist guy is seizing on poor old Quetzalcoatl and claiming the "Aryans" built all the Mayan stuff. :shake:

Try a search on Dr. Vera Tiesler, I believe she is the leading expert on mesoamerican osteology and forensic anthropolgy.
If my memory serves me well (history channel), the average hieght of the ancient male Mayan is 160 cm, the female being less than 150 cm.
Whats interesting is that the skeletons from the Maya elite are larger than the average hieght of Mayan people.


Not really. The elites would have a much better diet tan the average mayan, and so be able to grow larger. (Diet is one of the main factors in determining height)

Aye. That's true in many culture. It's probably why the most prominent Norse rulers were so huge.

the average hieght of the ancient male Mayan is 160 cm, the female being less than 150 cm.
Which puts them pretty much exactly in the same range as the ancient Egyptians, another bunch of early civilisation builders.:goodjob:

Which puts them pretty much exactly in the same range as the ancient Egyptians, another bunch of early civilisation builders.:goodjob:


Come on, we all know Aliens built the pyramids of Egypt:rolleyes: :p

Thanks for giving me the name of Vera Tiesler, she seems to be the expert of maya paleo anthropology.
It helped me to prove that modern mayas and classic mayas are the same people.
Classic mayas males were in average 1,60 tall, classic maya females 1, 50

The elites were a little taller, for example the skeleton of the pakal tomb was 165, and the red queen 154.

For your own sake, please don't deal with people who doubt that Mayans created their own civilization. It will just lead to headaches.