Your story sounds better and better - good luck with the research! :)
and whether they WERE as tall as they appear to be from some of the pictorial evidence or is is just artistic exaggeration.
According to the archeologist who did the guided tour through the Scythian exhibition in Hamburg, the human remains they found (both mummies and skeletons) prove they were, i.e., about as tall on average as modern day people, which would have been quite a bit taller than other populations in antiquity. He said it was a question of nutrition (nomad people would have had the chance to grow up with a diet particularly rich in protein which was not the case for farming-based societies of the same historical period). He claimed if a Scythian in modern-day clothes were standing among us, we probably wouldn't notice. I do not know if the catalogue gave exact data for the human remains they had on display there (I can try to look it up, for the warrior mummy they showed was definitely from about the right time period for you, only from the wrong location, i.e., Siberia, not Ukraine).
No idea about the exact dimensions of the wagons (as far as I remember, there is an existing wagon you can see pictures of on the homepage of the Hermitage Museum, but I believe it is just a funeral wagon, not one for everyday use, and I have no idea if it is from the right time period and region for your tale).
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Date: 2009-05-05 04:18 pm (UTC)and whether they WERE as tall as they appear to be from some of the pictorial evidence or is is just artistic exaggeration.
According to the archeologist who did the guided tour through the Scythian exhibition in Hamburg, the human remains they found (both mummies and skeletons) prove they were, i.e., about as tall on average as modern day people, which would have been quite a bit taller than other populations in antiquity. He said it was a question of nutrition (nomad people would have had the chance to grow up with a diet particularly rich in protein which was not the case for farming-based societies of the same historical period). He claimed if a Scythian in modern-day clothes were standing among us, we probably wouldn't notice.
I do not know if the catalogue gave exact data for the human remains they had on display there (I can try to look it up, for the warrior mummy they showed was definitely from about the right time period for you, only from the wrong location, i.e., Siberia, not Ukraine).
No idea about the exact dimensions of the wagons (as far as I remember, there is an existing wagon you can see pictures of on the homepage of the Hermitage Museum, but I believe it is just a funeral wagon, not one for everyday use, and I have no idea if it is from the right time period and region for your tale).