bothers me since a long time that for the Middle East or Near East is virtually no studies on the climatic history Millennia is the last [1].
Yesterday I had the luck to become aware of an interesting work to change the size growth of the inhabitants of Anatolia (Turkey) during the last 12 Millennia.
Özer et al. Leave in ihrer Studie Secular changes in height of the inhabitants of Anatolia (Turkey) from the 10th millennium B.C. to the 20th century A.D. zusammenfassend:
Neolithic and the Chalcolithic (5000-3000 B.C.) male heights are estimated as 170.9 cm and 165.0 cm, respectively. Pronounced increases were observed for both sexes between the Chalcolithic and Iron (1000-580 B.C.) periods and sharp decreases among both males and females in the Hellenistic-Roman period (333 B.C.-395 A.D.). Moreover, recovery to the Iron Age levels was achieved in the Anatolian Medieval period (395-1453 A.D.) for both sexes (169.4 cm for males and 158.0 cm for females). In 1884 the mean height of men was 162.2 cm and by the beginning of the 1930s it Increased to 166.3 cm.
striking to me that during the medieval warming phase to a growth spurt of population (169.4 cm / male) came, which deals with the Little Ice Age into the opposite (162.2 cm / male).
If we suspect it is not to be dismissed out of hand the possibility that a warming in temperate zones leads to the development of new crops, which means, ultimately, better nutrition for children and young people.
that better nutrition for children and young people an increase in wealth, is walking in the sequence with an average increased length growth is not a new thesis.
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[1] co2science.org
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