[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the Tollense Valley keyword, sorted:

• 'Europe's oldest battle' in Germany's Tollense Valley 3,250 years ago may actually have been a brutal MASSACRE of 1,400 Bronze Age merchants [10/26/2020]
• Lactose tolerance spread throughout Europe in only a few thousand years [09/16/2020]
• Lost in Combat? [3000 years ago] [10/18/2019]
• What Europe's most ancient battlefield reveals [10/09/2017]
• For Peaceable Humans, Don't Look to Prehistory [07/01/2016]
• Unexpected and Gruesome Battle of 1250 BC Involved 4,000 Men from Across Northern Europe [03/25/2016]
• "Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank" [05/22/2011]
• Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank [05/22/2011]
• Archaeologists find bones from prehistoric war in Germany [10/11/2008]

[mairdie]

Fascinating. Gruesome, but fascinating.

[It Aint Easy]

and raise questions about the state of organized, armed violence thousands of years ago...

Surely this must be wrong, organized armed violence is unheard of before the "far right-wing" groups of our times.

[Nateman]

This battle took place about 50 years before Civilization collapsed. While Northern Germany is far away from the Mediterranean Sea they did travel hundreds of miles to fight here. Just a coincidence or related?

[fidelis]

Face it: This is the only thing human beings, left to their own devices, have been really good at.

[DannyTN]

After 3250 years, I was so tired of that battle. I thought it would never end.

[Red Badger]

Many matched the style of arrowheads from other sites in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, suggesting they were locally made and carried by men who called the region home, according to the study.

It's called 'trade'...................