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    Prehistoric Spanish Massacre Rewrites the History of War in Europe

    Prehistoric Spanish Massacre Rewrites the History of War in Europe

    Prior to this find, historians believed that large scale warfare was introduced to Iron Age Europe by Rome. Apparently that is not the case.

    A study of victims of a Spanish prehistoric massacre is providing researchers with new insights into the evolution of warfare. Archaeologists have found evidence of a sacked settlement and the brutal slaughter of most of its inhabitants, including women and children. The Spanish prehistoric massacre evidence changes the view that large-scale warfare was introduced into Iron Age Europe by Rome.


    La Hoya was a very important Iron Age town in what is now the Basque Country in northern Spain . Because of its location, in the Ebro River valley, La Hoya flourished, and archaeologists have found evidence that it had streets, large buildings and defensive walls . Based on archaeological evidence, the site was ruled by a warrior aristocracy , who engaged in long-distance trade. It is believed that the “site was within territory controlled by the Berones,” a war-like Celtic people, reports Antiquity. Then one day about 2300 or 2200 years ago the town was attacked, and it was wiped off the face of the earth. This single Spanish prehistoric massacre completely rewrites the timeline of warfare in Europe, taking the spotlight off the Romans.
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    La Hoya Massacre Says Roman Did Not Invent Large-Scale War

    In the past, many historians believed that for much of the Iron Age, that warfare was little more than raiding and feuding. Dr Fernández-Crespo stated that “The new analysis of the human skeletal remains from La Hoya reminds us very forcefully that the prehistoric past was not always the peaceful place it is sometimes made out to be.” Based on the findings from the Spanish prehistoric massacre site at La Hoya, Iron Age warfare appears to have been more brutal and organized than previously believed.


    It was previously thought that large-scale and total warfare was introduced into Iberia by the Carthaginians and, especially, the Romans. The Roman legions were feared for their brutality and ruthlessness, and there is ample archaeological evidence for the slaughter of civilians and prisoners by Rome’s armies. The La Hoya evidence shows that “that large-scale, politically motivated violence in Iberia was not necessarily introduced by the Romans,” the research team argued in Antiquity.
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    I had thought the persistent myth of peace in prehistoric Europe was forever shattered after the 1996 discovery at Tollense, Germany. Link below. I have no doubt that contact with Roman civilization altered the Iron Age way of life throughout northern and central Europe but it seems clear now that large scale violence could and did occur. These discoveries in Spain simply make the matter yet clearer.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollen...ttlefield#Site
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