Why did people in the medieval period look so fucking weird?

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last one

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Christianity

fetal alcohol syndrome and inbreeding

think of the trashiest trailer park you can think of and imagine they are the well to do well fed literate elite of society and you will get an inkling of what things were like back then

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Why do people today look so weird?

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this, also malnutrition and disease. I really hope everyone wasn't fuck ugly in the past though, it would be a kind of lame let down like dinosaurs having feathers. I like to think ancient people could be as good looking as people of today. Ancient greek and roman art seems to support that but I wonder what the barbarians in the north looked like