Around 1250 B.C.E., two ancient armies fought with clubs, swords and arrows in northeast Germany’s Tollense Valley. The site is sometimes called “Europe’s oldest known battlefield,” as no earlier clashes of this scale have been identified.

A new analysis of arrowheads at a Bronze Age site in Germany shows that local warriors clashed with an army from the south 3,250 years ago.

BC bronze and flint arrowheads from the Tollense Valley, north-east Germany, uncovering the earliest evidence for large-scale interregional conflict in Europe. The Tollense Valley in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is well-known as the site of a large conflict dating to c.