Nov 9, 2017 @ 11:17 AM 13,406
How The Black Death Caused Medieval Women To Shrink
Kristina Killgrove , Contributor
In the middle of the 14th century, the Black Death swept Europe, killing millions of people, but archaeologists have recently discovered that its effects were far-ranging and surprising. People living after the plague were overall healthier than those who lived just before it, but a new study suggests that the Black Death may have caused Medieval women to shrink.
Writing in the American Journal of Human Biology, bioarchaeologist Sharon DeWitte from the University of South Carolina studied more than 800 skeletons from Medieval London with the goal of investigating "stress, sex, and plague." A bit less salacious than it sounds, the main topic covered in the research is the experience of physiological stress among members of two sexes -- male and female -- before and after the Black Death.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/11/09/how-the-black-death-caused-medieval-women-to-shrink/#1b92303b1c3b
