Large Scale Battle In BCE 1250 Germany

[The Brain]

Last refuge of the hunter/gatherer?

[lustindarkness]

Awesome find, very interesting article.

[Queequeg]

Last refuge of the hunter/gatherer?

This is many hundreds of years after the Proto-Germanic peoples had settled the region.  It seems a lot more likely it was a conflict between different types of Indo-European peoples, as is indicated by the large presence of people who did not live in Denmark.  I'd guess something like a conflict between groups like Satem-speakers (the ancestors of Slavs, Dacians, Thracians, Scytho-Sarmatians) and Centum speakers.  The Germanic languages kind of have characteristics of both so God only knows who won.

[The Brain]

Last refuge of the hunter/gatherer?

This is many hundreds of years after the Proto-Germanic peoples had settled the region.  It seems a lot more likely it was a conflict between different types of Indo-European peoples, as is indicated by the large presence of people who did not live in Denmark.  I'd guess something like a conflict between groups like Satem-speakers (the ancestors of Slavs, Dacians, Thracians, Scytho-Sarmatians) and Centum speakers.  The Germanic languages kind of have characteristics of both so God only knows who won.

I know who won: international arrowhead suppliers.

[Razgovory]

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

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

That's nice.

[Tonitrus]

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.

[Eddie Teach]

Looks like someone from New Guinea.

[Darth Wagtaros]

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.

They were a proud race of beaker makers. 

[Siege]

Please. Barbarians fighting each other.
Hardly a large scale battle.

[Norgy]

Please. Barbarians fighting each other.
Hardly a large scale battle.

Elaborate, Messiah.

[Eddie Teach]

Please. Barbarians fighting each other.
Hardly a large scale battle.

No kidding. A million people crashing into each other with swords isn't nearly as grand a scale as a dozen commandos trying to take a fortified farmhouse. 

[Siege]

Ok.
You made your point.

[Norgy]

I am curious, though, if and if so why they used cavalry.
Wooded areas were death traps.

Only around 1180 were cavalry used as a force in Norway, and it wasn't for a lack of horses.

[The Brain]

I am curious, though, if and if so why they used cavalry.
Wooded areas were death traps.

Only around 1180 were cavalry used as a force in Norway, and it wasn't for a lack of horses.

Cavalry in 1250 BC?

[Grinning_Colossus]

When do a bunch of guys riding around on horses with spears and clubs become a cavalry force?