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Thanks Covenantor. Good guess, btw. :') ...unearthed fractured skulls, wooden clubs and horse remains dating from around 1200 BC... suggest face-to-face combat in a battle perhaps fought between warring tribes... found remains of around 100 human bodies, of which eight had lesions to their bones. Most of the bodies, but not all, appeared to be young men. The injuries included skull damage caused by massive blows or arrowheads, and some of the injuries appear to have been fatal. Good guess, since these are 3200 year old human *remains*.One humerus (upper arm) bone contained an arrow head embedded more than 22mm into the bone, while a thigh bone fracture suggests a fall from a horse (horse bones were also found at the site). The archaeologists also found remains of two wooden clubs, one the shape of a baseball bat and made of ash, the second the shape of a croquet mallet and made of sloe wood. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.
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