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Beaker culture, Beaker culture - Extent, Beaker culture - Interpretation, Beaker culture - Origin, Beaker culture - Pottery, Beaker culture - Sources, Prehistoric Britain, Mount Pleasant Period, Nebra skydisk, Linear Ceramic culture (6th to 5th millennia), Funnelbeaker culture (ca. 4500-2700), Unetice culture (ca. 2300-1600), Tumulus culture (ca. 1600-1200), Urnfield culture (ca. 1300-800)
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ARTICLES RELATED TO Beaker culture - Extent | | | |  Beaker culture - Extent: Encyclopedia - Beaker cultureThe Beaker culture (also Bell-Beaker culture, Beaker people, or Beaker folk, German Glockenbecherkultur), ca. 2600 — 1900 BC, is the term for a widely but spottily scattered archaeological culture of prehistoric western Europe starting in the late Neolithic (stone age) running into the early bronze age.
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Its remains have been found in what is now Portugal, Spain, France (excluding the central massif), Great Britain and Ireland, the Low Countries, and Ger ...
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| | | | Beaker culture - Extent: Encyclopedia II - Beaker culture - Interpretation Given the unusual form and fabric of Beaker pottery, and its abrupt appearance in the archaeological record, the traditional explanation for the Beaker culture has been to interpret it as a diffusion of one group of people across Europe. During the early twentieth century, Beaker pottery was seen as one element of a people who, through repeated waves of invasion, brought with them metal-working, crouched burials and round barrows, replacing an earlier Neolithic race of Europeans. Vere Gordon Childe wrote of the Beaker culture as:
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| | | | Beaker culture - Extent: Encyclopedia II - Beaker culture - Origin The Beaker culture apparently derives from early Corded Ware culture elements, with the Netherlands/Rhineland region as probably the most widely accepted site of origin, (J. P. Mallory,EIEC p. 53). It is often suggested as a candidate for an early Indo-European culture.
In contrast to this, Marija Gimbutas derived the Beakers from east central European cultures that became "Kurganized" by incursions of steppe tribes. Despite this, an eastern origin is not often sought, eve ...
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