Mortality crises

1. Mortality crises are associated with stature in humans.

   “significant associations between the burial context and both variables in males (shorter lengths/breadths in the catastrophic group)”

   Humansmales

   Influence of early life environment on later life mortality in catastrophic and non-catastrophic medieval skeletal series from Kutná Hora-Sedlec (Czech Republic, 13th-16th century)

   International journal of paleopathology·17 Jan 2026

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