Circa 1970, Old Fort York, later became Toronto. The officers' beds were  
the same size as modern. The common soldiers' bunks were all 5 (five) feet  
long. Fort York was built in ~1815.

Read Rudyard Kipling for a description of nasty and brutish, and the  
remains found on the "Mary Rose", a king's ship which sank on it's maiden  
voyage. Etc.

Shorter than early neolithic.

William




On Sun, 13 May 2007 23:04:37 -0400, Tom Bri <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> So health did collapse in the neolithic with early unbalanced grain-based
> diets. But over time the diets were modified to make them less damaging.
>