Gundula Lidke

Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie | ZBSA

The chapter discusses the evidence for a major violent conflict in the Bronze Age in northeast Germany (c. 1300 BCE) from another angle. The volume "The Baltic in the Bronze Age. Regional patterns, interactions and boundaries" can be viewed here: https://www.sidestone.com/books/the-baltic-in-the-bronze-age

Lactase persistence (LP), the continued expression of lactase into adulthood, is the most strongly selected single gene trait over the last 10,000 years in multiple human populations. It has been posited that the primary allele causing LP among Eurasians, rs4988235-A [1], only rose to appreciable frequencies during the Bronze and Iron Ages [2, 3],...

Trügerische Idylle - ein Tal voller Knochen In einem Flusstal im Nordosten von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern fand um 1300 v.Chr. ein großer Gewaltkonflikt statt. Überreste sind im feuchten Boden erhalten. Der Band beschreibt die Fundsituation und stellt Hypothesen zum bronzezeitlichen Geschehen vor.

A decade ago, archaeologists discovered the site of a Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley in north-eastern Germany. Dated to the early thirteenth century BC, the remains of over 140 individuals have been documented, along with many associated bronze objects. Here, the authors present a new assemblage of 31 objects from the site, including...

Archaeological discoveries in the Tollense Valley represent remains of a Bronze Age battle of ca. 1300–1250 BCE, documenting a violent group conflict hitherto unimagined for this period of time in Europe, changing the perception of the Bronze Age. Geoscientific, geoarchaeological and palaeobotanical investigations have reconstructed a tree- and shr...

Although the Bronze Age is best known for its remarkable metal weapons, there is little evidence of conflict. Traumatic wounds in human skeletal remains are rare, and there have been few recognized scenes of warfare such as those known from later periods. Recent discoveries, however, have revealed evidence of a major battle in a small valley in the...

In den 1990er Jahren wurden am Ufer der Tollense in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wiederholt Menschenreste entdeckt. Eine erste Sondierung ergab 1996 eine flächig erhaltene Fundschicht mit Menschenresten und wenigen Pferdeknochen (Fundplatz Weltzin 20) aus der Zeit um 1300 v. Chr. Ein Schädel mit Impression verstärkte den Verdacht auf einen Gewaltkonflikt...

Warfare in Bronze Age Society takes a fresh look at warfare and its role in reshaping Bronze Age society. The Bronze Age represents the global emergence of a militarized society with a martial culture, materialized in a package of new efficient weapons that remained in use for millennia to come. Warfare became institutionalized and professionalized...

Warfare in Bronze Age Society takes a fresh look at warfare and its role in reshaping Bronze Age society. The Bronze Age represents the global emergence of a militarized society with a martial culture, materialized in a package of new efficient weapons that remained in use for millennia to come. Warfare became institutionalized and professionalized...

Research on the Bronze Age battlefield site in the Tollense Valley (Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, 13th cent. BCE) has to date uncovered the remains of more than 130 individuals, predominantly young adult men with perimortal as well as healed lesions, together with weapons of the same period, especially flint and socketed bronze arrowheads, and wo...

Die archäologische Erforschung des Phänomens »Krieg« führte in den letzten 25 Jahren zu einem außerordentlichen Erkenntnisgewinn: Schlachtfelder und Befestigungen wur-den ausgegraben, Massengräber geborgen, unzählige Skelette mit Verletzungsspuren untersucht, Waffen sowie bildhafte Darstellungen und historische Texte analysiert. In diesem Begleitba...

Die archäologische Erforschung des Phänomens »Krieg« führte in den letzten 25 Jahren zu einem außerordentlichen Erkenntnisgewinn: Schlachtfelder und Befestigungen wur-den ausgegraben, Massengräber geborgen, unzählige Skelette mit Verletzungsspuren untersucht, Waffen sowie bildhafte Darstellungen und historische Texte analysiert. In diesem Begleitba...

The discovery of numerous human skeletal remains, with traces of violence in several cases, together with two wooden clubs, dating to period III of the Nordic Bronze has made the Tollense valley in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the focus of research in the past few years. The unusual finds, c. 3300-3200 years old, were discovered at different locations al...

Chance discoveries of weapons, horse bones and human skeletal remains along the banks of the River Tollense led to a campaign of research which has identified them as the debris from a Bronze Age battle. The resources of war included horses, arrowheads and wooden clubs, and the dead had suffered blows indicating face-to-face combat. This surprising...

Trephinations in Neolithic people have been described all over the world. The reasons for these operations however are not always clear. In the present paper the authors describe the rare case of a Neolithic skull (dated to 1940 cal BC [calibrated before Christ]) showing the combination of a trephination combined with a healed depressed skull fract...

The authors present the case of a late neolithic skull (14C dating: 1940 calBC) found 1921 at Bölkendorf, 60 km north-easterly of Berlin. It shows a left frontal trephination (53 x 50 mm) and additionally a left temporo-occipital depressed skull fracture (both survived). Microscopic and 3D-CT analyses strongly suggest that the trephination has been...

For the first time in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Final Palaeolithic sites covered by sand dunes have been examined using geoarchaeologically methods. The site of Hintersee 24 can be dated to the Ahrensburg period based on the typology of flint tools. An accumulation of artefacts at this site led to the reconstruction of a flint knapping area. A small n...

For the first time in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Final Palaeolithic sites covered by sand dunes have been examined using geoarchaeologically methods. The site of Hintersee 24 can be dated to the Ahrensburg period based on the typology of flint tools. An accumulation of artefacts at this site led to the reconstruction of a flint knapping area. A small n...

Trephination of the cranial vault is the oldest known surgical procedure and has often been reported in the literature. The present study was performed to study the incidence, the techniques used, and possible indications for trephinations in the region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the most northeastern German state. One hundred thirteen of a total o...

OBJECTIVE:: Trephination of the cranial vault is the oldest known surgical procedure and has often been reported in the literature. The present study was performed to study the incidence, the techniques used, and possible indications for trephinations in the region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the most northeastern German state. METHODS:: One hundred...