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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
Fax: (401) 863-9423
[email protected]

Comfort can be difficult to measure across people, let alone societies.

Comfort, and therefore discomfort, are relative not only to the individual but to both physical and social conditioning. If I'm sitting on a chair in a room full of people sitting on the ground, I will probably feel uncomfortable whether or not I was raised in a chair-sitting society.