The severe head injuries are clearly visible in this skull from the Tollense Valley. picture alliance / Jens Büttner / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa / Jans Büttner
Was it just a simple robbery of a trading caravan or even the first north-south conflict in Europe? The Bronze Age finds in the idyllic Tollense Valley do not allow for a clear thesis even around 3,300 years later.
Archaeologists know of no older battlefield in Europe than the one along the meandering Tollense
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