ABSTRACT
The advent of militarism in temperate Europe seems to have been a result of the chariot revolution, and it happened first in the Carpathian basin. In temperate Europe too charioteers seem to have made their appearance in the period 1750-1500 BC. Indirect evidence for chariots at that time has been found in the Carpathian basin, northern Europe, and in northern Italy. Hundreds of bronze spearheads have been found in Romania and Hungary but still await cataloguing and the number of unpublished spearheads from all of temperate Europe runs in the thousands. Another pointer in the same direction is the considerable delay in the manufacture of defensive armor in temperate Europe. The spear, although not with a metal head, had been known forever in temperate Europe: even Neanderthal hunters seem to have used spears with stone heads to bring down their prey. Metal spearheads, however, were apparently unknown in temperate Europe until the second quarter of the second millennium BC.
