[Covenantor]

Baseball bats and croquet mallets, the first Euro-Cup?

[Covenantor]

For your ping list perhaps?

[Covenantor]

FYI

[Bean Counter]

Interesting stuff. Ancient Germany was one place even the Romans never conquered, even though they did try. The Black Forest was someplace you simply never came out of, which is why the Romans usually didn’t go there; kind of for the same reason the Romans did not regularly venture North of Hadrian’s Wall in Britain...

A couple of years ago someone unearthed the remains of a large Roman attempted retreat out of Germany where the entire Roman column had eventually been slaughtered over a miles long march. Smithsonian magazine had an excellent article, and I may try and did it out of the bookcase later to refresh my memory.....

[jdege]

What was going on, in Europe, c. 1200 BC?

Massive population migrations, the collapse of the Hittite Empire, Egypt’s invasion by the “Sea Peoples”, etc. If there was a period where you’d expect large-scale war in Germany, this would be it.

[Repeal The 17th]

Not much of a picture, but this is the bat and the mallet:

[Repeal The 17th]

The weapons used were apparently arrows and wooden clubs, so how is it they call this a “Bronze Age” battle site?

[blueunicorn6]

If they find any jet skis and beer bottles, then it was probably my ancestors holding a family reunion.

[sayuncledave]

“The injuries included skull damage caused by massive blows or arrowheads, and some of the injuries appear to have been fatal.”

This struck me as odd. By definition, those remains found on the battlefield are of people whose wounds were ultimately fatal.

[Cacique]

Btt

[squarebarb]

Bookmark

[EternalVigilance]

remains of two wooden clubs, one the shape of a baseball bat and made of ash

Amazing artifact.

[MattinNJ]

My ancestors fought naked in the snow BTTT