Stone Age Warfare? - Neolithic Devastation at Asparn/Schletz

Ah the Neloithic age, when going clubbing had a really different meaning.

Only real 10,000BC kids will understand

"The only way to enjoy the lamentation of their women was to take the women with me. So I did"--King Conan

You mentioned the lack of males between 20-40. Fighting age males. One of three things happened. 1- They were raided and the men went out to meet them and lost. That means somewhere close by is another grave filled with males 20-40. 2- They sent their men to raid another group and lost. The other group then went and attacked the village of their attackers. 3- The men were away and the village was attacked. When they returned they buried the dead and left.

It took me a whole minute to realise he wasn't actually wearing that.

Nothing is more terrifying than losing a fight for your family's survival.

“Stone Age was peaceful”-some idiot. Me with a branch: UNGA BUNGA

"Another group probably passed by and buried them." Really makes you realize how you know, human people were. We often think of them as barely human, this barbaric animal-man hybrid with a big club, but nope, they were just like us without our technology.

Now I wanna do NEMA (Neolithic European Martial Arts) :D

Young Stone Age. “Yeah, we don’t need those old heads tellin’ us how to shape our rocks..”

Ahhh the good ol times When life expectancy was borderline nothing

A guy commented how 67 Skeletons should be a powermetal song. While I agree, I'm not a lyricist, so here's a poem instead; a little story from the perspective of the marauders. "Sixty-Seven Skeletons. Sixty-seven skeletons, buried in a ditch, Battle of the ages, eager fingers twitch, Wooden clubs and arrows, tipped with jagged stone, Sweating from exertion, we're breaking every bone, Emerging from the dark, a neolithic might, Coordinated strike, tonight we live to fight, Shaman says to kill, so crush the children's heads, But women serve us well, we drag them to our beds, Adding to our clan, we claim them as a prize, But aftermath does bring, annoying buzz of flies, Putrifying corpses, men fertilize the field, Shaman speaks the words, so everyone must yield, Returning to the sight, the stench is quite overt, Dump bodies in a hole, and cover them with dirt, Now the deed is done, old fort is full of ghosts, Drinking bitter ale, we celebrate with toasts, Regale ourselves of battle, such a fever pitch, While sixty-seven skeletons are buried in a ditch."

”Sticks, Stones and Broken Bones”? That is THE best titel ever!!!

Well I live about 100km away from Asparn. Never been to the museum there. I´ll definitely go and see it soon. Thanks Skall :D

Calling it 'Stone Age Conflict' avoids having to decide whether it can be classified as war or not, always preferable for archaeologists, never like to be too pinned down to a proper answer. I really like these anthropological/archaeology videos, satisfying my desire for academic discussion and my lust for violent and Hoplophilia.

Human beings are far better adapted for the Stone Age than the Modern one. We spent MUCH more time evolving at that technology level. War is just humans organized enough to fight systematically over territory and resources. Whoever says war only began at this or that age is a fool. Chimps wage wage in the jungle, we separated from our common ancestor with them 6 million years ago. War is older than the human species... "Behold, war! Before which all other human endeavors pale in comparison."-General Patton

Farming: is discovered Cavemen: Excited tribal chanting Civilization: is discovered Cavemen: LOUD TRIBAL CHANTING

I didn't know I needed or wanted this but I did. Thanks skall. Especially for that intro. Austria rarely gets much attention in history videos. Or atleast the ones I watch lol.

I really, really love when Skall does the prehistoric stuff like in this video and the Ice Man stuff. Maybe its because of his background in archaeology and anthropology, but it feels he's really intimate with the subject and its a joy to hear him talk about it.

Upper and Lower Austria have their names because they are upstream and downstream of the river Enns' mouth into the Danube. Upper Austria = Oberösterreich from 'Österreich ob der Enns' = Austria above the Enns Lower Austria = Niederösterreich from 'Österreich nieder der Enns' = Austria below the Enns