[SunkenCiv]

from 2010:

• Archaeologists Discover 2,400-Year-Old Weapons and Tools in Valencia
  [La Bastida de les Alcusses in Moixent, Valencia]

[visualops]

http://www.la-bastida.com/LaBastida/

[Happy Rain]

Somehow I am not too surprised that perhaps the oldest “for war” ruins in continental Europe are in the Basque country—they is ornery critters to this day.

[pepsi_junkie]

The latest excavations and the result of Carbon 14 dating indicate that La Bastida was probably the most powerful city of Europe during the Bronze Age and a fortified site since it was first built, in circa 2,200 BCE, with a defence system never before seen in Europe.

This is the sort of flawed thinking that grates at me. The logic goes thus:

• We found a really impressive city
• It's the only one like we've found
• Therefore it is the only one of its kind
• Therefore it is the most powerful in all of Europe
• Therefore it was built by aliens

That last one is a joke but it illustrates that the prior assumptions were based on equally flawed logic.

[PapaBear3625]

The wall protected a city measuring 4 hectares located on top of a hill. With architectural elements reminiscent of people with Eastern styled military skills, its model is typical of ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean, such as the second city of Troy.

Four hectares is a little under 10 acres. A perimeter of 300 meters makes it a little under two modern city blocks. A nice fortress, but not a huge city, even 4 thousand years ago. Babylonian Ur was 54 acres.

Looking up the location on google maps has me scratching my head. It's not near a river or sea, as most cities tend to be.

[blam]

"These people would have reached La Bastida after the crisis which devastated their region 4,300 years ago."

This?

Disaster That Struck The Ancients