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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: Imperial Dave on September 23, 2024, 10:15:31 AM

Title: Tollense Valley Bronze age battlefield assessment
Post by: Imperial Dave on September 23, 2024, 10:15:31 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/bronze-age-arrowheads-europe-oldest-known-battlefield-1957118

Hopefully of interest...
Title: Re: Tollense Valley Bronze age battlefield assessment
Post by: Erpingham on September 23, 2024, 12:59:33 PM
The Antiquity article referred to is here (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/warriors-from-the-south-arrowheads-from-the-tollense-valley-and-central-europe/C4F6ECB759833BFD337D37ADAE564C4B)
Title: Re: Tollense Valley Bronze age battlefield assessment
Post by: Imperial Dave on September 23, 2024, 03:59:36 PM
Ta  :)
Title: Re: Tollense Valley Bronze age battlefield assessment
Post by: Erpingham on September 24, 2024, 10:52:41 AM
The importance of archery in this fight is an interesting revelation, which might be directly reflected in army composition, for those wargaming the period.  The trauma diagram in the text is interesting too.  There is published analysis of these finds but none of it seems openly available.
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