An unknown battle 3,200 years ago

From Science Magazine

"Before Tollense, direct evidence of large-scale violence in the Bronze Age was scanty, especially in this region. Historical accounts from the Near East and Greece described epic battles, but few artifacts remained to corroborate these boastful accounts. 'Even in Egypt, despite hearing many tales of war, we never find such substantial archaeological evidence of its participants and victims,' UCD’s Molloy says."

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"Before the 1990s, 'for a long time we didn’t really believe in war in prehistory,' DAI’s Hansen says. The grave goods were explained as prestige objects or symbols of power rather than actual weapons. 'Most people thought ancient society was peaceful, and that Bronze Age males were concerned with trading and so on,' says Helle Vandkilde, an archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark. 'Very few talked about warfare.'”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/slaughter-bridge-uncovering-colossal-bronze-age-battle

As more and more sites come to light, it is increasingly obvious that, as a group, historians have a specific set of beliefs unchangeable by alternate possibilities.  New ideas are accepted only through massive evidence. 'Many people thought ancient society was peaceful…,' the archaeologist says. A Bulgarian archaeologist commenting on the 6,000-year-old Varna cemetery stated that until that find, archaeologists believed people from that time lived in a classless society. That would show archaeologists might know things, but they do not know people.

As my wife said, "All they have to do is read the Bible."