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In 1996, an amateur archeologist chanced upon a remarkable find. Protruding from the bank of the Tollense River in northern Germany was an upper arm bone with a flint arrow sticking straight out of it. Subsequently, a test excavation revealed several other bones plus a club that may have been used to pulverize the skull that was found nearby. Radiocarbon-dating indicated 1250 BCM, the year a previously unknown gigantic battle took place that may have involved up to 4,000 warriors, apparently recruited from hundreds of kilometers distance; including as far north as Scandinavia and Poland and south to Germany and Holland. Because of the results of excavations from 2009 to 2015, according to the summary by Curry [70], out goes the belief of a “peaceful” Bronze Age throughout northern Europe. Though much remains to be learned, the fierce Tollense battle “fits into a period when we have increased warfare everywhere.”