Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle (2016)

Re:Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age... by jariel on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @10:21PM (#24416161)

It should be a revelation because war is a civilizational concept - it's a form of organized violence, 'organization' being the keyword here.

If you're living in scattered, small tribes, then at most you can get into small tribal scuffles and vendetta ... but war requires planning, organization, support, possibly diplomacy, marshalling of resources - so it's hard to have proper war without the mechanisms in place to support it.

So maybe it's not quite so obvious.

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Re:Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age... by selestify on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:05AM (#24417003)

Indeed, the article itself says

> We had considered scenarios of raids, with small groups of young men killing and stealing food, but to imagine such a big battle with thousands of people is very surprising

So it's not so much the violence itself that's the surprise, as it is the scale of said violence

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