[soledades]

This is incorrect:

> "The bones of 'domiciled' Homo sapiens compared with those of hunter-gatherers are also distinctive: they are smaller; the bones and teeth often bear the signature of nutritional distress, in particular, an iron-deficiency anemia marked above all in women of reproductive age whose diets consist increasingly of grains"

from Against the Grain

see also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917328/

[Godel_unicode]

Mineral deficiency is a chronic lack of a particular nutrient, starvation is an acute lack.

[soledades]

There is such a thing as chronic starvation, and the smaller bones reflect that, not mineral deficiency.

The linked article addresses famine more specifically.

[Godel_unicode]

It does not.