# Sadly, Stupidity is very, very, Old. LINK to story about an ancient battlefield

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**Created:** [October 4, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-stupidity-is-very-very-old-link-to-story-about-an-ancient-battlefield/1008448 "2024-10-04T15:15:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-stupidity-is-very-very-old-link-to-story-about-an-ancient-battlefield/1008448/1 "2024-10-04T15:15:22Z")

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> A new analysis of dozens of arrowheads is helping researchers piece together a clearer portrait of the warriors who clashed on Europe’s oldest known battlefield 3,250 years ago.
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> The bronze and flint arrowheads were recovered from the Tollense Valley in northeast Germany. Researchers first uncovered the site in 1996 when an amateur archaeologist spotted a bone sticking out of a bank of the Tollense River.

[A battlefield. Thousands of years old. Strewn with the the Dead.](https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/science/tollense-valley-bronze-age-battlefield-arrowheads/index.html)

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-stupidity-is-very-very-old-link-to-story-about-an-ancient-battlefield/1008448/2 "2024-10-04T16:08:51Z")

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I suspect it’s much much older than that !

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-stupidity-is-very-very-old-link-to-story-about-an-ancient-battlefield/1008448/3 "2024-10-04T19:15:37Z")

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I added some detail to the title.