Lost in combat? A scrap metal find from the Bronze Age battlefield site at Tollense

Title

Lost in combat? A scrap metal find from the Bronze Age battlefield site at Tollense

Creator(s)

Uhlig, Tobias

Krüger, Joachim

Lidke, Gundula

Jantzen, Detlef

Lorenz, Sebastian

Ialongo, Nicola

Terberger, Thomas

Date

2019

Is Part Of

Antiquity

Volume

93

Issue

371

Pages

1211-1230

Language

eng

ISSN

0003-598X, 1745-1744

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.137

URI

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/lost-in-combat-a-scrap-metal-find-from-the-bronze-age-battlefield-site-at-tollense/9984BB85B2126C139E5ACA5111236307

Zotero BiDiAr

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/VEVD3Z6V/item-list

Abstract

, 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 three bronze cylinders that may be the fastenings of an organic container. The objects are similar to those found in Bronze Age burials of southern Central Europe, and may represent the personal equipment of a warrior from that region who died on the battlefield in Northern Europe.

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