What was the average lifespan of the Anasazi Indians and also their average height?
That’s a hard question to answer, as that’s like asking what the average height or lifespan of an Anglo-European is; it’s different in different populations, and it’s changed substantially over time. The Anasazi and their Pueblo descendents have existed for about two millennia, and in different places at different times their heights and lifespans were different. Having said that, I’d guess that the average lifespan was in the early to middle 30s, which is a bit misleading; deaths were high for infants and children, pushing the average lifespan down, but if you survived childhood, you would likely live into your early 50s, and a few individuals were much older when they passed away. Regarding height, that too is highly variable through time and space. Ann Stodder, a bioarchaeologist at the Field Museum of Chicago who specializes on the prehistoric Southwest, tells me that females averaged 5’0″ (153 cm) in height, while males averaged 5’4″ (163 cm). The tallest males, whose remains were
