Archeologists(考古学家) have found some people in East China 5,000 years ago to be unusually tall and strong.
Measurements of bones show the height of at least one man to have reached 1.9 meters with quite a few at 1.8 meters or taller. This is just based on the bone structure. If he was a living person, his height would certainly be more than 1.9 meters.
From 2016, archeologists have been checking the ruins of 104 houses, 205 graves and 20 sacrificial(献祭的) pits at Jiaojia village in Zhangqiu district, Jinan city. The relics are from the Longshan Culture, named after Mount Longshan in Zhangqiu.
Already agricultural at that time, people had all kinds of rich food resources and thus their physique(体格) changed. Millet was the major crop and people raised pigs. Pig bones and teeth were found in some graves.
According to the findings, taller men were found in larger tombs, possibly because such people had a high rank and were able to get better food. Shandong locals believe height to be one of their defining characteristics. Confucius (551-479 BC), a native of the region, was said to be about 1.9 meters tall.
Official statistics back up the saying. In 2015, the average height of men aged 18 in Shandong was 1.753 meters, compared with a national average of 1.72 meters.
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