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And it was verified on skeletal remains, actually.
BTW - in Early Medieval Northern Europe - where population density was still small and forests were still intact - people were also relatively tall:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ieval-ancestors-just-tall-says-new-study.html
People became smaller later - since the Late Middle Ages, through the Early Modern Era, until the 19th century - when they started to grow again.
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BTW - in the 19th century professor Bolesław Rosiński researched the height of Polish peasants from the typically agrarian region of Miechow, and the height of children of those peasants who emigrated to Texas and became Polish-Americans. It turned out, that already US-born children of Polish peasants who came to Texas from Miechów region, were - on average - 4 cm taller than their parents, who grew up in Poland. Peasants from Miechów were on average 164-165 cm tall (around year 1850) and their children in Texas were on average 168-169 cm tall. So there was a 4 cm growth during just one generation.
Modern Americans are also taller than most of Southern Europeans - even if they are descendants of Southern Europeans.
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European skeletons from the Paleolithic period (before the Neolithic Revolution), prove that average height of those prehistoric men was close to 180 cm.
Those were skeletons of hunter-gatherers, because it was only during the Neolithic Revolution when agriculture was introduced.
Why do you think the Chinese people were so small ??? Because the most important part of their diet was rice for many hundred years.
During less than 100 years, beginning in the 20th century, Japanese people grew on average 11 cm.
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I found these figures for average height in Norway (I suppose it only refers to male height):
9th - 11th c. - 173 cm
12th - 14th c. - 171 cm
17th - 18th c. - 167 cm
2nd half of 19th c. - 170 cm
Around year 1930 - 172 cm
BTW - at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, average height in Europe was also reported to decline (I guess because more people moved to cities).
Only in modern times inhabitants of cities have access to better diet than inhabitants of villages. In the past it was exactly the other way around.
BTW - in Early Medieval Northern Europe - where population density was still small and forests were still intact - people were also relatively tall:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ieval-ancestors-just-tall-says-new-study.html
People became smaller later - since the Late Middle Ages, through the Early Modern Era, until the 19th century - when they started to grow again.
=================================
BTW - in the 19th century professor Bolesław Rosiński researched the height of Polish peasants from the typically agrarian region of Miechow, and the height of children of those peasants who emigrated to Texas and became Polish-Americans. It turned out, that already US-born children of Polish peasants who came to Texas from Miechów region, were - on average - 4 cm taller than their parents, who grew up in Poland. Peasants from Miechów were on average 164-165 cm tall (around year 1850) and their children in Texas were on average 168-169 cm tall. So there was a 4 cm growth during just one generation.
Modern Americans are also taller than most of Southern Europeans - even if they are descendants of Southern Europeans.
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European skeletons from the Paleolithic period (before the Neolithic Revolution), prove that average height of those prehistoric men was close to 180 cm.
Those were skeletons of hunter-gatherers, because it was only during the Neolithic Revolution when agriculture was introduced.
Why do you think the Chinese people were so small ??? Because the most important part of their diet was rice for many hundred years.
During less than 100 years, beginning in the 20th century, Japanese people grew on average 11 cm.
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I found these figures for average height in Norway (I suppose it only refers to male height):
9th - 11th c. - 173 cm
12th - 14th c. - 171 cm
17th - 18th c. - 167 cm
2nd half of 19th c. - 170 cm
Around year 1930 - 172 cm
BTW - at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, average height in Europe was also reported to decline (I guess because more people moved to cities).
Only in modern times inhabitants of cities have access to better diet than inhabitants of villages. In the past it was exactly the other way around.