Some chipped, some iron.
If I had to guess multiple battles over a spread of years as different cultures tried to capture control...

"Thomas Terberger of the University of Göttingen thinks the battle may have been sparked by a causeway built over the Tollense River some 500 years earlier. “The causeway was probably part of an important trade route,” he explained. “Control of this bottleneck situation could well have been an important reason for the conflict,”

Whereas the Silk Road had multiple paths, there are places where bottlenecks exist and warfare erupted to control them.
It sounds like the same thing happened here.

[archaeology.org]

Jammer



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/29/2024 05:32AM by Hermione.