"What a Warrior’s Lost Toolkit Says About the Oldest..." Topic

… Known Battle in Europe.

"Alittle more than three millennia ago, hundreds, maybe thousands, of warriors using clubs, swords and arrows clashed along the marshy banks of the Tollense River on Germany's Baltic coast, staining the grounds with blood.

On what may be the oldest battlefield in Europe, archaeologists have been uncovering remains and attempting to recreate what happened during that violent conflict. Chance discoveries started at the site in the 1990s, and then, over more than a decade of fieldwork that started in 2008, researchers began to understand that they were looking at a veritable battlefield, which came as a surprise as much archaeological evidence from the Bronze Age in Central Europe comes from ancient settlements or cemeteries. Finds of weapons and sturdy fortifications at other sites had suggested that combat was a part of life during this era. But a battlefield, revealing a snapshot of gruesome violence that occurred over a matter of days, offered much more definitive proof about the scale of such warfare…."

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" What may the oldest battlefield in Europe" Seems a bit of a questionable statement to me. Greek "states" were probably involved in warfare before this. Could some of the combatants in this battle, identified only as " from Southern Europe" have been from Greece?

Good question…

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