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Re:Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age... by credit_guy on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:06PM (#24415136)
This was not really "prehistory". About 100 years before the event here the battle of Kadesh [1] happened. Tens of thousands of soldiers are believed to have participated in that battle.

Not sure anyone "before the 1990s" was thinking that people were peaceful during the Bronze Age. 3200 years ago was almost to the day contemporaneous with the Trojan war [2]. That was not a time when people were peaceful and "concerned with trading and so on".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kadesh

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War#Historical_basis

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Re:Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age... by golergka on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @09:44PM (#24415839)
> That was not a time when people were peaceful and "concerned with trading and so on".

In relative terms, Pax Romana definetly was such a time.

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Re:Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age... by ImprovedSilence on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @11:08PM (#24428547)
Not sure what you're getting at. Pax Romana was over 1000 yrs after the Trojan War was suspected to have happened.
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