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People haven't changed much. We just wear cheaper clothes. No disagreement about the excellent art.
by argiopetech 2y ago
People haven't changed much. We just wear cheaper clothes.
No disagreement about the excellent art.
- asveikau 2y agoObviously clothing and hairstyles change. More recently, average BMI is higher, or people are more likely to be tattooed. I'm sure there's other differences that aren't coming to mind. But even setting aside any of that, it's pretty rare that I see a portrait that old and I think it could conceivably be recent.
- r14c 2y agoeven the amount of tattoos depends on culture and region. lots of cultures around the world practice some form of tattooing. even the BMI thing varies somewhat because different BMIs are healthy for different ethnic groups.
- Modified3019 2y agoThis is a tangent to the mention of cultural BMI, but I recently came across these: Ritual fattening of Massa men https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32978275_Guru_-fattening_sessions_among_the_Massa https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32978275_Guru_-fatt... Leblouh, the force feeding of girls to fatten them. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-tradition-leblouh-in-africa-force-feeding-girls-for-marriage.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-tradition-leblouh-in...
- saagarjha 2y agoWell the clothing and hairstyle in the top photo looks pretty modern to me
- tetris11 2y agoPeople haven't changed much over the last 2000 years I think, just different tools and terminologies