That seems to be the case, and you would have to put your warriors somewhere. Though there's nothing in the article about it, I would suspect that the males served for a set period of time from adolescence and were probably not allowed to marry until they had finished their service -- that's a pretty common formula for social control in advanced chiefdom/primitive monarchy. The irony is that nowadays "the longhouse" refers to the infantilizing aspects of liberal feminism. Christopher Rufo would be quite confused if he went back in time to visit a longhouse in Bronze Age Germany.
I love this stuff. Fascinated by the bronze age collapse. So, some longhouses were a kind of barracks?
That seems to be the case, and you would have to put your warriors somewhere. Though there's nothing in the article about it, I would suspect that the males served for a set period of time from adolescence and were probably not allowed to marry until they had finished their service -- that's a pretty common formula for social control in advanced chiefdom/primitive monarchy. The irony is that nowadays "the longhouse" refers to the infantilizing aspects of liberal feminism. Christopher Rufo would be quite confused if he went back in time to visit a longhouse in Bronze Age Germany.