http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/slaughter-bridge-uncovering-colossal-bronze-age-battle
So who were they?
>>3311752
nordic bronze age clashed with urnfield and their proto baltoslavic buddies.
These guys (urnfield) gave birth to the Villanovian culture that originated the Etruscan civilization
>>3311752
Probably bronze age Europeans of some kind.
,indo-european migrations, mighty clash between I1 and R1 haplotypes
>>3311752
>So who were they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corded_Ware_culture
>>3311767
weren't etruscans non-ie?
>>3311752
Was this around the time of the Late Bronze Age collapse and the mysterious Sea Peoples??
>>3311958
supposedly 100 years before Trojan War
>>3312146
apparently they've found samples fitting swedes, poles, russians and south europeans
>>3311767
Etruscans were neither Indo-European nor Northern European.
it's fascinating and surprisingly grim
and the fact that it happened in the same era as the Trojan war puts it in a historical perspective