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Beaker culture
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Beaker culture

Late Neolithic and early Bronze Age culture of northern and western Europe. The people are known for a group of distinctive bell-shaped earthenware beakers decorated with toothed stamps, probably used in rituals of consumption. The Beaker people buried their dead in simple graves but also in megalithic tombs in western Europe. They used the bow and arrow as well as copper daggers and spearheads. As they searched for gold and copper, they spread metallurgy into other parts of Europe. They eventually mixed with the Battle-Ax culture and spread from central Europe to eastern England.



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Like the Irish in the 19th Century who fled the Great Hunger to meet the same sad sort of slogans that greeted the Beaker People - No Irish Need Apply on factory gates, just as No Coloureds No Dogs (no commas) appeared in lodging house windows when the first West Indians arrived.
Clearly many Kelts went back to Ireland and Britain from even before the Hyksos period as the Beaker people in 2200 BC.
Until recently, they were associated with the Beaker people, who inhabited Europe during the later third millennium BC during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
 
 
 
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