05-12-2010, 10:28 AM
....just found the summary on the Stettfeld cemetary findings. Will take time to extract the essential lines and to translate them.
In the meantime:[attachment=0:9jthhqoq]<!-- ia0 populationSWgermany.jpg<!-- ia0 [/attachment:9jthhqoq]
Top line: From the cradle to the grave
Bottom line (rightward) : Development of the average (body) size in southwestern Germany from Late Stone Age till today. As for roman times a slight reduction of size is to be attested for both sexes [ in cm] -- probably caused by immigration from southern Europe.
Source: Joachim Wahl: Humans [ found no faster and better expression for this]-- From Individuals To Population in :Imperium Romanum -- Roman Provinces on Neckar, Rhine and Danube (Stuttgart 2005) pgs 344-348, pic 455
This paper also contains further References on anthropological research of crematorial remains.
Greez
Simplex
In the meantime:[attachment=0:9jthhqoq]<!-- ia0 populationSWgermany.jpg<!-- ia0 [/attachment:9jthhqoq]
Top line: From the cradle to the grave
Bottom line (rightward) : Development of the average (body) size in southwestern Germany from Late Stone Age till today. As for roman times a slight reduction of size is to be attested for both sexes [ in cm] -- probably caused by immigration from southern Europe.
Source: Joachim Wahl: Humans [ found no faster and better expression for this]-- From Individuals To Population in :Imperium Romanum -- Roman Provinces on Neckar, Rhine and Danube (Stuttgart 2005) pgs 344-348, pic 455
This paper also contains further References on anthropological research of crematorial remains.
Greez
Simplex
Siggi K.
