Tollense Battle Revealed: A Bronze Age Massacre of Merchants & Traders

The Battle of the Tollense Valley was once thought to be Europe’s oldest known battle. But now it is thought it may have been a massacre. Not a clash of organised armies, but a brutal assault on innocent traders and merchants carrying their wares down one of the ancient trade routes of Northern Europe. As always - there's more to this than meets the eye ... let's see if we can dig a bit deeper!

00:00 - Introduction
03:20 - How the Tollense Valley site was discovered
05:43 - Some context
07:12 - First anomaly
07:51 - The remains in the river
09:20 - Material goods
11:46 - Ancient trade routes
13:50 - More evidence
15:29 - Number crunching
18:04 - There weren’t warriors
20:20 - Nor were there warhorses
21:49 - Envisioning the scenario
29:34 - Wrap-up and goodbyes

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