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Average Heights in Northern Europe Estimated from Adult Male Skeletons

Era Location Avg.Height(cm) Avg.Height(in) SampleSize Source
9-11th C Iceland 172.3 67.8" 22 Steffensen, Jon. Stature as a Criterion of the Nutritional Level of Viking Age Icelanders. Arbok hins islenzka fornleifafelags, fylgirit. 1958.
9-17th C Iceland 172.2 67.8" 71 Steffensen (1958)
10-11th C Sweden 176.0 69.3" 8 Gilberg, Rolf. "Stengade-vikingernes skeletter." In: Stengade II: en langelandsk Gravplads med grave fra romerskjernalder og vikingetid. Jorgen Skaarup, ed. Rudkobing: Langelands Museum, 1976. Pp. 220-27.
11-12th C Iceland 172.0 67.7" 27 Steffensen (1958)
11-17th C Iceland 171.0 67.3" 16 Steffensen (1958)
12th C Norway 170.2 67.0" 42 Hanson, C. "Population-Specific Stature Reconstruction for Medieval Trondheim, Norway." International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2 (1992), pp. 289-95.
12th C Britain 168.4 66.3" 233 Munter, A. Heinrich. "A study of the lengths of the long bones of the arms and legs in man, with special reference to Anglo-Saxon Skeletons." Biometrika XXVIII (1928), pp. 258-294.
12-13th C Norway 172.2 67.8" * Huber, Neil M., "The Problem of Stature Increase: Looking from the Past to the Present". In: The Skeletal Biology of Earlier Human Populations. D.R. Brothwell, ed. Pegamon Press, Oxford, 1968. Pp. 67-102.
12-16th C Iceland 175.2 69.0" 6 Steffensen (1958)
13th C Denmark 172.2 67.8" 31 Boldsen, Jesper. "A statistical evaluation of the basis for predicting stature from lengths of long bones in European populations." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 65 (1984), pp. 305-311.
13th C Sweden 174.3 68.6" 66 Gejvall, Nils Gustaf. Westerhus; Medieval Population and Church in the Light of Skeletal Remains. Lund: H. Ohlssons boktr. 1960.
13-14th C England 171.8 67.6" * Huber (1968)

Average Heights in Northern Europe Estimated from Adult Male Skeletons

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