Hair length in the past?

[Al B. Sure!]

I imagine that hundreds of years ago, people didn't have much access to effective shears and razors so did people generally have huge amounts of hair and massive beards?

Also, movies about Africa or slaves always show the Africans with real short hair or bald... shouldnt they have huge heads of hair? I mean, Amistad was just on tv, and all the africans had short or no hair... how did they get hair-cuts, especially ones so close?

again, i don't get it...


thanks

[Ted Striker]

GIVE US...US FREEEEE!!!!!!

[chequita guevara]

Knives in Africa. Even the Romans had short hair, dude. Long hair is a ***** in hot weather.

[Q Classic]

a lot of east asian males used to have topknots. cutting them off, at least in korea, was a deeply shameful thing.

[Ted Striker]

Romans used to go to the bathhouse and have their body hair PLUCKED too.

ouch

[JohnT]

I used to have hair down to my shoulders. I thought I looked like Bono. I actually looked like a dweeb.

[chequita guevara]

You still look like a dweeb.

[Cruddy]

Long hair is horrible when there's a lot of insects about...

[Al B. Sure!]

Chegitz:

So you saying that a knife can make someone bald?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
Chegitz:

So you saying that a knife can make someone bald?

I see no reason to doubt it.

[Al B. Sure!]

Chegitz:

I can't imagine any knives from hundreds of years ago getting that close of a cut...

[chequita guevara]

The fact that you cannot imagine it does not make it so.

You are falling prey to the fallacy of primitive stupidity. Just because people didn't have the things we have today doesn't mean they were idiots. Razors have existed for thousands of years. High quality steel has been around almost as long (in small batches).

[Al B. Sure!]

Chegitz:

would a slave in Virginia have much access to high quality steel?

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
Chegitz:

would a slave in Virginia have much access to high quality steel?

Have you ever done any kind of field work on a farm?

[Al B. Sure!]

Sprayber:

I like in philly so obviously no...

nevertheless... would a Zulu, for example, have been bald or with short hair as portrayed in the movies, or with nappy afros?