the letters of the Latin alphabet are not always used as they are in English. 'In the Latin alphabet, Jehovah begins with an i.' Anyone who's seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade should have an idea.
In an episode of Stargate: SG1, the character Daniel Jackson, who is meticulous about his own research and dismissive of what he considers substandard work, once got the dates of a medieval king of England wrong. I later found that the writers had lifted Daniel's entire speech from a dodgy website on Arthurian myth.
Digging in the East coast to the Great Plains, I saw that skeletally during the colonial expansion era too. Funny. I don't explain it- most of them, as imports, weren't particularly affected by increased nutrition during developement. Gross generalisation ahead, but Europeans tend to get taller as you get further north. You weren't excavating Scandinavians, by any chance, were you? But seriously, if they were homogeneous groups, the specific region of Europe they came from could be significant. Averages are averages, and local conditions could vary enormously.
colonials are BIGGER I think the privations of two world wars - which in some regions continued for years after the wars ended - must have had a big impact on the physical development of two or three generations of Europeans.
And back to inaccuracies in print - I read an article this morning that referred to 'Mr Pratchett'. He's been Sir Terry for a year now. Inexcusable.
Good point about the two wars! "Europeans tend to get taller as you get further north. You weren't excavating Scandinavians, by any chance, were you? " lol, not always and not exclusively- insert truncated rant on oft-ignored settlement patterns here- but yeah, I think you're right, generally, the same environmental factors are affecting all of them in predictable ways.
"Anyone who's seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade should have an idea" yeah, but the average intelligent person's failure to put known factoids together and come up with useful knowlege is another pet peeve!
'In the Latin alphabet, Jehovah begins with an i.' Anyone who's seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade should have an idea.
In an episode of Stargate: SG1, the character Daniel Jackson, who is meticulous about his own research and dismissive of what he considers substandard work, once got the dates of a medieval king of England wrong. I later found that the writers had lifted Daniel's entire speech from a dodgy website on Arthurian myth.
Digging in the East coast to the Great Plains, I saw that skeletally during the colonial expansion era too. Funny.
I don't explain it- most of them, as imports, weren't particularly affected by increased nutrition during developement.
Gross generalisation ahead, but Europeans tend to get taller as you get further north. You weren't excavating Scandinavians, by any chance, were you? But seriously, if they were homogeneous groups, the specific region of Europe they came from could be significant. Averages are averages, and local conditions could vary enormously.
colonials are BIGGER
I think the privations of two world wars - which in some regions continued for years after the wars ended - must have had a big impact on the physical development of two or three generations of Europeans.
And back to inaccuracies in print - I read an article this morning that referred to 'Mr Pratchett'. He's been Sir Terry for a year now. Inexcusable.
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"Europeans tend to get taller as you get further north. You weren't excavating Scandinavians, by any chance, were you? "
lol, not always and not exclusively- insert truncated rant on oft-ignored settlement patterns here- but yeah, I think you're right, generally, the same environmental factors are affecting all of them in predictable ways.
"Anyone who's seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade should have an idea"
yeah, but the average intelligent person's failure to put known factoids together and come up with useful knowlege is another pet peeve!
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