We just had a massive thread discussing this yesterday with @BretDevereaux and @FlintDibble and others. *I* incline toward thinking a largely agrarian society means people in better shape, but there are nutritional arguments as well. Bottom line: it’s disputed.https://twitter.com/RyanVanLoan/status/1263127108362043393 …
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To say nothing of the endless debate about how they used their *weapons*, either... I would say this kind of research is a non-starter
I always feel a bit bad when asked about ancient fighting practice and I have to say "any martial art without a preserved technical treatise is probably unreconstructable" because it makes the questioner so disappointed.
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I admire efforts by folks like Roland Warzecha to, for instance, reverse-engineer early medieval sword-and-round-shield fighting from late medieval sword-and-buckler. But we have to admit that even that is just fun guesswork, not a firm basis of knowledge.
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But the leap to ancient systems - different shield-grip systems, armor protection, etc....and with us just knowing generally so much less about European spear-wielding in *any* period... Greek and Roman fighting is very firmly in the 'unreconstructable' category, I think.
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