A millennium of war – violent encounters during the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in the western Baltic Sea

• Autores: Christian Horn, Sebastian Schultrich
• Localización: Presenting Counterpoints to the Dominant Terrestrial Narrative of European Prehistory / coord. por John T. Koch, Mikael Fauvelle, Barry Cunliffe, Johan Ling, 2025, ISBN 9798888571859, págs. 11-30
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study aims to shed light on Neolithic warfare and violence by examining specialized weapons and their depositional contexts. By incorporating other evidence forviolence, we demonstrate that conflict and warfare of cross-sea relationships, which became prominent by the onset of the Middle Neolithic at the latest. Our fundings suggest that there was at least a millenium of warfare before the Nordic Bronze Agw. We demonstrate that understanding the social, economic, and political impacts of warfare, rather than viewing it in isolation, is essential, as it may have been a key driver of change.