“The skeleton, she said, likely belonged to a male, 50 years or older, who would have stood somewhere between 5 feet 8 inches (173 centimeters) to 5 feet 10 inches (178 cm) tall.”
Tall, for an ancient, yes?
The better the diet, the taller the adult. Also, agriculture stemmed from and led to fixed settlements, and to lower infant mortality, larger family sizes, and less of what is sometimes called diversity in the genome because the same basic number of people spent a few centuries drastically outbreeding those who remained in hunter-gatherer-forager mode. Agriculture led to more, not fewer, food choices and a stable food supply. That in turn led to writing, fine art, and civilization in general.