The biological and maturity of the earlier generations is not comprable with todays women because these are changing over the period.For details check the peer reviewed jorunals on this changinging biological and physiological characters of eraly generations questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=98501236
....since elite women generally married around the age of puberty or even earlier...
..The marriage ceremony itself, which often took place when a girl was twelve years old, and sometimes even earlier...