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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Archaeologists Keep Finding Massive Shoes at an Ancient Roman Fort—and They Have No Idea Why They're So Big

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Archaeologists Keep Finding Massive Shoes at an Ancient Roman Fort—and They Have No Idea Why They're So Big

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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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    They were also shorter on average than modern humans. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/17072/what-was-the-average-height-of-roman-men-and-women

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      They also lived shorter on average. Some of them still reached a very old age. The average really doesn‘t tell us that much about the extremes that existed.

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        That’s because of high infant/childhood mortality rates skewing the average. If you take away anyone who died before age 5, the average age shoots up to like 70+ in most places. Not too different from today.

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          Yes, I know. The problem is that most people see an average stat and think it‘s a universal law. That goes for life expectancy, height and even GDP per capita among other things. In reality no one is perfectly average and extremes exist everywhere.

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