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People haven't changed much. We just wear cheaper clothes.

No disagreement about the excellent art.



Obviously clothing and hairstyles change. More recently, average BMI is higher, or people are more likely to be tattooed. I'm sure there's other differences that aren't coming to mind.

But even setting aside any of that, it's pretty rare that I see a portrait that old and I think it could conceivably be recent.


even the amount of tattoos depends on culture and region. lots of cultures around the world practice some form of tattooing. even the BMI thing varies somewhat because different BMIs are healthy for different ethnic groups.


This is a tangent to the mention of cultural BMI, but I recently came across these:

Ritual fattening of Massa men

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32978275_Guru_-fatt...

Leblouh, the force feeding of girls to fatten them.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-tradition-leblouh-in...


Well the clothing and hairstyle in the top photo looks pretty modern to me


People haven't changed much over the last 2000 years I think, just different tools and terminologies




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