Large Scale Battle In BCE 1250 Germany

[Jacob]

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/slaughter-bridge-uncovering-colossal-bronze-age-battle?utm_source=sciencemagazine&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=bronzeagebattle-3174

Pretty neat, and with likely implications about social organization at that time. This is close to contemporary with the sack of Troy.

[Phillip V]

Should we rather imagine prehistoric warriors as looking the size and development of adolescent boys rather than these old bearded muscular men that illustrations and other media like to show us?

[Jacob]

Should we rather imagine prehistoric warriors as looking the size and development of adolescent boys rather than these old bearded muscular men that illustrations and other media like to show us?

Maybe... what's your reason?

[Phillip V]

Should we rather imagine prehistoric warriors as looking the size and development of adolescent boys rather than these old bearded muscular men that illustrations and other media like to show us?

Maybe... what's your reason?

Empathy.

[jimmy olsen]

Not surprised there was this kind of unrest in the north around this time. Just as the huns pushed the germans west 1700 years later, climate changed likely caused cascading migrations and violent upheaval that lead to the Sea People's invasion of the Near East.

[The Brain]

Cool.

[Grinning_Colossus]

I remember looking at the bog bodies from early-CE Germany when they were in LA. Even non-curled up and desiccated, most of them couldn't have been taller than 1.6 m.

[CountDeMoney]

Should we rather imagine prehistoric warriors as looking the size and development of adolescent boys rather than these old bearded muscular men that illustrations and other media like to show us?

You mean there's a possibility that they really weren't members of Amon Amarth straight from the opening scenes of Conan the Barbarian?

[MadImmortalMan]

A lot was going on around then. The great bronze age collapse and all that.

[jimmy olsen]

Should we rather imagine prehistoric warriors as looking the size and development of adolescent boys rather than these old bearded muscular men that illustrations and other media like to show us?

If you read the whole article the men are mostly between 20 and 30 years old and 27% have healed serious wounds indicating these are veteran soldiers not boys.

[Razgovory]

So much for the peaceful, proto-socialist, Pre-Indo-European matriarchy.

[dps]

Should we rather imagine prehistoric warriors as looking the size and development of adolescent boys rather than these old bearded muscular men that illustrations and other media like to show us?

If you read the whole article the men are mostly between 20 and 30 years old and 27% have healed serious wounds indicating these are veteran soldiers not boys.

First of all, his point/question wasn't that they were boys instead of full-grown men, but rather that full-grown men of the time had roughly the same physical stature as adolescent boys of today.  And second, in those days, you didn't have to be a soldier to get serious injuries--it's likely that a great many people often suffered serious or even fatal injuries just in the everyday course of trying to get enough food to survive as a hunter/gatherer.

[jimmy olsen]

The article says they were farmers and the healed wounds looked like they were intentionally inflicted.

[alfred russel]

So much for the peaceful, proto-socialist, Pre-Indo-European matriarchy.

Raz, BCE 1250 was well after the indo european migrations began.

[PDH]

And second, in those days, you didn't have to be a soldier to get serious injuries--it's likely that a great many people often suffered serious or even fatal injuries just in the everyday course of trying to get enough food to survive as a hunter/gatherer.

By 1250 BCE farming and animal husbandry (not THAT kind, Brain) was the norm, not foraging.  The Beaker people were farmers centuries before 1250 BCE.