Are Native Americans taller than Europeans?
Are Native Americans taller than Europeans? The average height of all adult men in these tribes was 172.6 cm, placing them at the top of the world's height distribution. They were 1 to 2 cm taller than American soldiers, 3 to 11 cm taller than Europeans, and slightly taller than Australians.
Which Native American tribe is the tallest?
Catlin believed the Osages “ to be the tallest race of men in North America, either red or white skins; there being few indeed of the men at their full growth, who are less than six feet in stature, and very many of them six and a half, and others seven feet.”
How tall were the Mayans?
The Maya Indians were so short that some scholars called them the pygmies of Central America: the men averaged only five feet two, the women four feet eight.