Tollense

Presumed Tollense battle site

As initially reported in the German media, human remains from the Bronze Age were found in the region named "Tollensetal" (Tollense valley) since 1997. Many individuals showed signs of serious injury and violent death, leading to a hypothesis of some kind of inter-tribal conflict. Starting in 2008, archaeological study of the site zeroed in on an area of two square kilometers. Hundreds of bone fragments belonging to a very large number of persons have since been discovered along with further corroborating evidence of battle; current estimates indicate that perhaps 4000 warriors took place in a battle on the site. These findings were possible due to the preservation of the former fen (swamp) ground and the fact that the Tollense has never really changed its course. Since the population density then was about 5 people per square kilometer, this would have been the most significant battle in Bronze Age period Germany yet to be discovered. Moreover, the Tollense valley is so far the largest excavated battle site of this age anywhere in the world. Further investigation of the site took place in the years 2010 to 2015.

There are a number of features that point to the Tollense's status as a battle site. Bronze weapons and armor as well as wooden weaponry and flint arrowheads have been found in abundance. Fractured skulls unearthed at the site suggest face-to-face combat, possibly between warring tribes. All of the remains appear to be from young men, based on osteological analysis and preliminary genomic analysis, and many of the injuries seem to have occurred immediately before death. The bodies do not appear to have been buried in a normal ceremony and instead were dumped, or simply fell, in the river. Horse bones were also found at the site and a fractured thigh bone suggests a fall from a horse. Recent studies suggest that the fractured thigh bone was probably caused by a bronze spearhead rather than a fall from a horse.

As of 2015, bodies of at least 130 human male individuals and 5 horses have been identified in an area of only 450 square meters; extrapolating from the excavated area, the entire battle area may contain bodies of 750 people. A rough estimate is that 4000 warriors took part in the battle. At the time of the battle, northern Europe is believed to have no towns and few small villages. Known archeological sites indicate local people lived with their extended families on farms, and the population density was less than five people per square kilometer. The nearest known large settlement was more than 350 kilometers to the southwest, in the historic Watenstedt district of current Salzgitter. Chemical tracers in the body remains indicate most of the Tollense warriors were from hundreds of kilometers away and ate millet, not grown in that part of the country at that time. Based on the difficulties of fighting in armor for novices, the warriors are inferred to have been professional fighters.

The battle indicates there were organized battles occurring in Bronze Age northern Europe with trained warriors and workers providing food to the warriors, which allowed the warriors to train full time.

Historic traces

The area was settled by Indo-European peoples (Haplogroup R1a), in later centuries known as Eneti-Veneti-Węđi-Wends, already for millennia before the cannibalistic proto-Semitic/proto-Germanic tribes (Haplogroup I-M253) via Illyria and then along Rhine and Sołaba (currently Elbe) rivers, leaving traces of horror along their way, e.g. Herxheim (archaeological site), reached Scandza around 5000 BC. During the following centuries the now Scandza based cannibals regularly invaded the native Indo-Europeans looting their agricultural products, metal products, women and skilled slaves. Such out of Scandza invasions of the proto-Semitic/proto-Germanic cannibals were confirmed by excavations from Iława (Eulau) dating to approximately 2400 BC, where the remains of a complete native Indo-European family killed during the attack, performed by wooden and stone weapons, were found and this particular excavation of Pomerania dating approximately 1200 BC. Based on Celtic mythology, genetics, toponomy and various other sources and relics, already around 1500 BC the sons of Danu of the Suryavansha dynasty, also known as Tuatha Dé Danann or Duninowie came via Vysperia (Silesia) and along the (W)Odra river from the steppes of the Saka in Scythia. The Danann of which also the name of Dania was derived were just one of the civilizatory waves and their horsed Kshatriya (warriors) were the protectors of local peasants. The Slavic-Aryan adoration of the Sun (Svarog-Surya) of which the Trundholm sun chariot is an example and the later Svetovid cult of this area have common roots. They also transported the achievements in agriculture, metallurgy and other sciences. Cooperating with the Ionian fleet of Arzawa (compare Warszawa), which supplied goods along the Scythian coasts of the Black Sea and to Pannonia, Boio-Aria (Bavaria) and Vysperia (Slovakia-Moravia-Silesia) along the Danube, the Śakan-Scythian Kshatriya protected the trading routes with the Mediterranean areas. Amber was a highly valued export of the Baltic shores. The native Indo-European industry of this area was placed in Vysperia (Silesia), along the Ore Mountains and in the area of Ašaria (Aryan for “The Noble Truth”, currently Aschersleben) in the Hercynian mountains (currently Harz). The Nebra sky disk, related to the clan of Gryfici (Świebodzice) (compare the coat of arms of Świebodzice, where some of the Bronze Age Copper industry was placed) may have provided means of navigation.

The Tuatha Dé Danann-Duninowie, Gryfici (Świebodzice) and the Druk-Drak-Krak (Dragon) clan, led by Brahmin-Magi-Druid of the Suryavansha dynasty (House of Suren, Pernus coat of arms) founded many European cities and since founding the Etruscan civilization (Perusia, Spera…) introduced the Iron Age to Europe founding also the La Tène culture. Since approximately 600 BC representatives of the Suryavansha dynasty settled in Pern (currently Bern), Spira (currently Speyer), Pernik (currently Nuremberg), Spira near Nebra (currently Querfurt-Esperstedt, Thuringia), Pirna… Their ritual “Piasta” hats (Cosmic Hub) from Speri and Sparda, buried while the Roman and Germanic invasions, were recently discovered across Europe. Similar younger caps of local chiefs, known as the Eberswalde Hoard were also discovered not far from Tollense. One of the last nearby foundings of the Suryavansha dynasty (Spyra) of Rosperk, Vysperia, and their Kshatriya Iakšo of Miechów, the Principality of Kopnik was immediately invaded by Germanic tribes and is currently known as German capital Berlin named after the invaders nickname. The white-red colors, representing the Brahmin and Kshatriya, used in most European flags were also introduced by the Solar dynasty. Some, e.g. the flag of Cantabria, still contains the solar circle, the solar stone (Sudarshana Chakra). The last castle lost to the German invaders, the Solar Stone Castle, originally an astronomic observatory and cultic place of Parjanya-Perun became a German extermination centre and members of the ancient solar dynasty were killed or forced to develop “Wunderwaffe”. Attempts of Adam Ronikier, descendant of the Griffin Kshatriya expelled from Tollense area in the middle ages, to save Warsaw in 1944 ended in a disaster.