What is the origin of Wars? Why ends the dispute in the mass murder? The Exhibition “War. On the traces of an Evolution” in Vienna, the development of the wars studied in the last 7000 years.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
A Symbol of Power and stupidity
“The stupidity of the people seems to be limitless,” says Anton Kern, Director of prehistoric Department of the natural history Museum in Vienna. This show – since the stone age, especially in their pursuit of ever-better weapons. Shown is the development of the sword as a weapon of war – from the flint – and stone-a history of spears up to the mythical Excalibur models.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
From the factory the weapons were witnesses
In the Neolithic period (about 5500 to 1800 BC) were converted into everyday tools such as stone Axes and Axes (from Austria and the Czech Republic, of 5300 – 3300 BC) to weapons of war. Researchers believe that the stone clubs are the oldest human weapons. They were used both for defense as well as attack.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
Hole in the head
The skull of a 20 – to 30-year-old man has a rag in a hole in the front. Perhaps it has caused a wooden stick. The skull dates back to the oldest battlefield of Europe, is situated on the river Tollense, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and is approximately 3200 years old. Thousands of warriors with swords, spears, and clubs made of flint, Bronze, or metal in the battle.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
The Thirty Years ‘ War
This copper engraving shows by Matthäus Merian the use of fire weapons on the front line of the battle of Lützen in Saxony, nearly 400 years ago. Under the rifle fire of the Swedish king Gustav Adolf was Killed. Eight million people died because of the war of religion to the victims.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
Old Lead Bullets
Employees of the Museum place 2700 lead balls from old pistols, carbines, and muskets, which were found on the battlefield of Lützen. About 22,000 people were killed in the battle. Most of the victims had injuries to the head, the body, however, rather rare.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
Unknown Soldiers
The Remains of 47 soldiers who fell on the battlefield in Lützen, were discovered in 2011 during excavations in a mass grave. With new forensic techniques, they were analyzed to reconstruct the stories and causes of death of the victims in as much detail as possible. About half of the men between 15 and 50 years died of wounds at the shot.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
A Symbol of Power and stupidity
“The stupidity of the people seems to be limitless,” says Anton Kern, Director of prehistoric Department of the natural history Museum in Vienna. This show – since the stone age, especially in their pursuit of ever-better weapons. Shown is the development of the sword as a weapon of war – from the flint – and stone-a history of spears up to the mythical Excalibur models.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
From the factory the weapons were witnesses
In the Neolithic period (about 5500 to 1800 BC) were converted into everyday tools such as stone Axes and Axes (from Austria and the Czech Republic, of 5300 – 3300 BC) to weapons of war. Researchers believe that the stone clubs are the oldest human weapons. They were used both for defense as well as attack.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
Hole in the head
The skull of a 20 – to 30-year-old man has a rag in a hole in the front. Perhaps it has caused a wooden stick. The skull dates back to the oldest battlefield of Europe, is situated on the river Tollense, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and is approximately 3200 years old. Thousands of warriors with swords, spears, and clubs made of flint, Bronze, or metal in the battle.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
The Thirty Years ‘ War
This copper engraving shows by Matthäus Merian the use of fire weapons on the front line of the battle of Lützen in Saxony, nearly 400 years ago. Under the rifle fire of the Swedish king Gustav Adolf was Killed. Eight million people died because of the war of religion to the victims.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
Old Lead Bullets
Employees of the Museum place 2700 lead balls from old pistols, carbines, and muskets, which were found on the battlefield of Lützen. About 22,000 people were killed in the battle. Most of the victims had injuries to the head, the body, however, rather rare.
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Endless war: The rise of our weapons mania
Unknown Soldiers
The Remains of 47 soldiers who fell on the battlefield in Lützen, were discovered in 2011 during excavations in a mass grave. With new forensic techniques, they were analyzed to reconstruct the stories and causes of death of the victims in as much detail as possible. About half of the men between 15 and 50 years died of wounds at the shot.
100 years after the end of the First world war and 400 years after the beginning of the thirty years war, the exhibition “war is documented. On the traces of an Evolution” at the natural history Museum Vienna (NHM), on the basis of archaeological and anthropological research has been the development of war, as well as some of the most brutal battles in the history of mankind.
The exhibition was continued in cooperation with the state Museum for prehistory Saxony -. It shows that “the earliest conflicts between people in the stone could have been the precursor of Wars,” says Christian Köberl, General Director of the NHM, opposite the Deutsche Welle.
The rapidly growing field of research
Smashed skull, were discovered on the oldest battlefield of Europe from the year 1200 BC, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, show how wooden sticks were deployed in regional battles devastating effect. The archaeological reappraisal of the war has become in the past two decades, a rapidly growing area of research: battlefields and fortifications have been excavated, mass graves found, countless skeletons with battle scars examines historical texts and depictions of war.
The exhibition draws on this knowledge, if it is to be converted, such as hunting or agricultural tools to weapons, such as two fights in battles have degenerated or, as the mythical war hero, cannon fodder deteriorated. “It’s about to take advantage of archaeology and anthropology, in order to gain information about past wars and the fate of their victims,” says Köberl. The exhibition confronts the visitor with the presence of, for example, the Global Peace Index, which documents the peacefulness of Nations.
In Battle: armor and spears
More than 6,000 people to die in six hours
The horrors and traumas of war, particularly on the example of a mass grave clearly, which dates back to the year 1632, and witness a battle of the thirty years ‘ war at Lützen in Saxony is: In less than six hours, the armed forces of Sweden and the Roman Empire fought against each other. Over 6,000 people lost on the fields around the small town between Leipzig and Naumburg in your life.
In 2011, researchers from the pits, a 55-ton earth block, which is fixed in Wien on a wood – and-steel construction, and the Remains of 47 soldiers shows that have fallen in battle. The scientists have studied the bodies and Details about the victims and their cause of death is reconstructed. “The focus is in front of all the people, both active participants as well as to the Victims and their fates,” says Christian Köberl.
Scars of the battle
The search for the first traces of the war begins with the 7,000 years of ancient weapons and human skulls that bear the scars of battles – including the oldest known massacre in the lower Austrian Schletz. The destructive power of war is shown in prostheses for mutilated soldiers after the First world war, the part of the pathological-anatomical collection.
“War. On the traces of an Evolution,” will run until 28. April 2019. Some of the Highlights of the exhibition you can see in our photo gallery.