Bronze Age

A fascinating new study chronicles the family histories of European Bronze Age households, revealing the presence of surprising marital practices, patterns of inheritance, and the unexpected early emergence of social inequality within these homestead farms—including the possible use of slaves or servants.

Indo-European warrior from eneolithic Ukraine's Yamnaya or Pit-Grave culture bearing bronze spear and daggers and a stone battle axe. He is wearing ochre war paint and silver hair coils. Art by Christian Sloan Hall

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The Bronze Age 2000-800 B.C.- Note;This chart refers to the bronze age "Indo-Europeans" as Germans, although many of the same artifacts have been labeled elsewhere as Celtic or Scandinavian....G. L. Freeman

Recreations of Bronze Age costume, jewelry, and other personal objects displayed in the Zapadoceske Museum, West Bohemia (Czech Republic).

During the Bronze Age, people started doing something that today might seem quite strange: they gathered up their precious objects and buried them in the ground, with absolutely no intention of coming back for them. We know this because many of the artefacts have been intentionally bent, broken or otherwise 'decommissioned' – they could never be used again. Many were also placed in or near water, not exactly the kind of place you'd put something for safe-keeping! This practice occurred…

Most likely, a raiding party torched the village. Flames raced through the wooden roundhouses so quickly that the inhabitants fled without their belongings. The scorched remains, perched on stilts, eventually collapsed into the river below....

The Hittite warriors carved out an empire that encompassed most of Asia Minor and parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.