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From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.robertstech.com/temp/romans.jpg
Me so thinks real Romans were less tall in height and more broad in
shoulders ... ;-)
Reminds me of an excellent piece of logic from Norwegian author Kjell
Aukrust. He maintained that the vikings weren't much to brag about.
According to official statistics, the average height of new recruits
to the army has been slowly increasing from year to year since
statistics began in the twenties. By extrapolating the curve backwards
in time, it is clear that the vikings were actually the size of a wine
bottle.
Considering the Romans were about a millenium before the vikings, they
must indeed have been small...:-)
Jostein
