Large-scale warfare occurred in Europe '1,000 years earlier than previously thought'

[Warpy]

1. With 90% of the injuries healing or healed

it sounds more like blood sport than an organized battle.

In the latter, a greater proportion with unhealed fractures would have been present as combatants too wounded to stagger off would have been finished off by their side or by the victors.

Blood sport would have given horrific injuries in mostly men, who tend to take more risks, the injured carried off to have their fractures set and splinted, relatively few being injured mortally. However, sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you and bear baiting has never been considered particularly safe. Or lion, tiger, hippo aurochs, or even wild horse.

ETA: Armed conflict between armies was definitely going on during that time period, only it was in the eastern Mediterranean region. Odd how some things never seem to change.