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bravecows poll of what distracts people...
Homo floresiensis - the new hobbits of the Flores island in Indonesia ("The original skeleton, a female, stood at just 1 meter (3.3 feet) tall," - average height perhaps not yet determined?). That article says, "Modern pygmies are considerably taller at about 1.4 to 1.5 meters (4.6 to nearly 5 feet) tall." Is that with modern nutrition? I'd have hardly thought 5 feet would have been considered exceptionally short.
The forgotten Australian pygmies("adult males were only about 140 centimeters (four feet six inches) tall.")
Bushmen of the Kalahari (average height 4'10")
I'm not a very good researcher - it was difficult for me to find a reference to how tall the Montaignard (Hmong) tribes from Vietnam are, but eventually I found this mention of "around 5 feet" here: Review of "The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures."
I only knew to keep looking because one of the teachers at my high school did a slide show of pictures from when he was a Special Forces photographer in the Vietnam war working with a Hmong guy. There were pictures of them side by side and he made it a point to say this guy was of average height for his tribe. He only came up to the teacher's shoulder, and the teacher was maybe 5'8", I think.
I had a cousin (she's long since lost touch with our family, now), who was adopted, from Vietnam. She was barely over 5', I think, but if you saw her in a photo with nothing to compare her against you'd have thought she was tall - she had a build like a lanky model.
bravecows poll of what distracts people...Homo floresiensis - the new hobbits of the Flores island in Indonesia ("The original skeleton, a female, stood at just 1 meter (3.3 feet) tall," - average height perhaps not yet determined?). That article says, "Modern pygmies are considerably taller at about 1.4 to 1.5 meters (4.6 to nearly 5 feet) tall." Is that with modern nutrition? I'd have hardly thought 5 feet would have been considered exceptionally short.
The forgotten Australian pygmies("adult males were only about 140 centimeters (four feet six inches) tall.")
Bushmen of the Kalahari (average height 4'10")
I'm not a very good researcher - it was difficult for me to find a reference to how tall the Montaignard (Hmong) tribes from Vietnam are, but eventually I found this mention of "around 5 feet" here: Review of "The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures."
I only knew to keep looking because one of the teachers at my high school did a slide show of pictures from when he was a Special Forces photographer in the Vietnam war working with a Hmong guy. There were pictures of them side by side and he made it a point to say this guy was of average height for his tribe. He only came up to the teacher's shoulder, and the teacher was maybe 5'8", I think.
I had a cousin (she's long since lost touch with our family, now), who was adopted, from Vietnam. She was barely over 5', I think, but if you saw her in a photo with nothing to compare her against you'd have thought she was tall - she had a build like a lanky model.
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I'll just give up on reading all the books I've got in my to-read stack, and read the ones my friends are reading, instead. That way I can be 'in.'
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(I'm big with the <3s today.)