Were the Germans physically superior?

[Simplex]

...this here seems to be another interesting article. I think I have not read it yet.
Anthropometric Decline of the Roman Empire?
Regional differences and temporal development of the quality of nutrition
in the Roman provinces of Germania and Raetia
from the first century to the fourth century AD
It's here:
[url:2sjzkqpw]http://eh.net/XIIICongress/Papers/Koepke.pdf[/url]
Greez

Simplex
EDIT: OOPS, this has already been mentioned on pg.2. I was at eliminating double files when I ran into it, 's been already on my computer for quite a time. hock: hock:
Ahhhmmm, while I was at it I found a couple of other papers that touch the subjects too:
[url:2sjzkqpw]http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/59/1/komlos_baten.PDF[/url]
[url:2sjzkqpw]http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/volltexte/2010/525/[/url]
[url:2sjzkqpw]http://www.eco.rug.nl/~jacobs/jjdownload/Workshop14May-Koepke.pdf[/url]
[url:2sjzkqpw]http://www.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de/cms/fileadmin/Uploads/Schulung/Schulung5/Paper/Koepke_Baten.pdf[/url]
[url:2sjzkqpw]http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/scheidel/011002.pdf[/url]
[url:2sjzkqpw]http://www.meteohistory.org/2005historyofmeteorology2/11koepke_baten.pdf[/url]
Most of the stuff (if not all) is in English. Like I said -- I had no time to go through it yet. :oops: