How high was height?

A common misconception about the average height of societies is that everyone was much shorter in the past, and that average height increased steadily as the centuries went on. In fact, average height depends on the general health of a community, how well they ate and similar factors, and therefore varies greatly from century to century and region to region.

A new study determined that medieval adults in England were not much shorter than we are today. The study focused on 3,000 skeletons from St. Peter's Church in Barton upon Humber, North East Lincolnshire. Find out what intriguing conclusions they arrived at in the article by Chris Brooke at the Daily Mail.

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