[Varda]

Thanks for the ping. I missed this posting the first time around.

Here’s some more about the skeletons. I don’t think it was an army but rather the men of a village all slaughtered. (probably by a German tribe)

“The deposited population is estimated to 380 individuals. The relative absence of traces of healed sharp force trauma suggests that they had relatively little previous battle experience”
http://www.pnas.org/content/115/23/5920

[lepton]

Thanks for the link. Interesting summary of the forensics.

[SunkenCiv]

My wild guess is, a surprise attack and massacre by one of the none-too-neighborly neighbors. The wounds (it sez) are consistent with the local weapons of that time.