07-16-2011, 09:57 PM
You have certainly done your homework Tabicus, but do you really consider a male from 2000 years ago who was 5'5" or 5'7" to be exceptionally smaller? I am 5'7" but I my hat size is a 7.5 which is considered large and my hands are just as large as someone who is taller than me.
Ancient people were shorter, no doubt, but did they have significantly smaller body parts in ratio of their body compared to the ratio of contemporary humans.
And for the record. I didn't say the Romans certainly used vambraces, nor did I encourage reenactors to wear them. I said the concept of vambraces had been around, and according to Dan's impression date at least back to Mycaenean times.
Next time I post something, I'll make sure it isn't as easy to take out of context. Also I will make a more conscious effort to make sure that if it there is no archaeological or written records, it simply did not exist, and I am crazy for simply implying that something such as Vambraces which out date the founding of Rome by some 900 years, could have possibly been used. If tree falls down in the forest, and no one is around, and no written accounts are taken, I guess we should not assume that there was no noise when it fell?
Some of you guys have all the intellect, but none of the logic. I'm done with this thread, you guys make some things way to unpleasant.
Ancient people were shorter, no doubt, but did they have significantly smaller body parts in ratio of their body compared to the ratio of contemporary humans.
And for the record. I didn't say the Romans certainly used vambraces, nor did I encourage reenactors to wear them. I said the concept of vambraces had been around, and according to Dan's impression date at least back to Mycaenean times.
Next time I post something, I'll make sure it isn't as easy to take out of context. Also I will make a more conscious effort to make sure that if it there is no archaeological or written records, it simply did not exist, and I am crazy for simply implying that something such as Vambraces which out date the founding of Rome by some 900 years, could have possibly been used. If tree falls down in the forest, and no one is around, and no written accounts are taken, I guess we should not assume that there was no noise when it fell?
Some of you guys have all the intellect, but none of the logic. I'm done with this thread, you guys make some things way to unpleasant.
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-Matt
-Matt
