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Could you use length of battle as a proxy for casualty reports?
That information is actually less likely to be reported in our sources than the casualties. But also - lots of confounding variables. Length of engagement not clearly related to casualty figures.
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Interesting. I figured that would be more likely reported because you’d get contemporaneous accounts. I was actually questioning if casualties is the right figure. It feels like it introduces complications, like tactics. I was hoping that was mitigated somewhat with length.
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Contemporaneous accounts for ancient battles are quite rare. Even long-after-the-fact eyewitness testimony is rare and valuable. Far more common that we are dealing with a condensed report by a non-eyewitness of official records/eyewitness testimony, often at centuries distance
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