Archaeological estimates of human stature are principally reliant on skeletal evidence, and assessment of past population stature is therefore limited by available sample size. Pre-colonial southern African hunter-gatherer and nomadic pastoralist populations are difficult to characterise in this way, due to the general scarcity of skeletal evidence (e.g. Morris 1992: 72). The problem of small sample size is most acute in arid parts of the region, where population density was especially low. In this paper, I attempt to expand the available human stature data sources for the Namib Desert, by augmenting the meagre skeletal evidence with complementary indices of human stature. Human foot impressions in lagoon sediments serve as one indirect measure of stature, while measurements of stroke length on grindstones provide a basis of further inference. Although relatively imprecise, this expanded sample improves the available range of data relevant to the estimation of pre-colonial human stature, thereby opening further avenues of research on past human populations in this region. Accounts of early contact with the pre-colonial inhabitants of the Namib coast provide no accurate measurements of stature.