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		The Beaker culture (formally called the 'Beaker people' or 'Beaker folk') is the term for an archaeological culture representing a wide range of scattered peoples present in prehistoric Europe during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
		Beaker remains are most concentrated in the valley of the Rhine and fringing the coasts around the North Sea where fertile agricultural land may have led to the development of Beaker culture out of the earlier cultures such as the corded ware culture.
		Many archaeologists now believe that the Beaker 'people' did not exist as a group, and that the beakers and other new artefacts and practices found across Europe at the time that are attributed to the Beaker people are indicative of the development of particular manufacturing skills.
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	Bronze Age England and Wales, the Beaker People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These newcomers have been called the Beaker People because of the shape of the pottery vessels which are so often found in their round barrow graves.
		The Beaker folk were farmers and archers, wearing stone wrist guards to protect their arms from the sting of the bowstring.
		The Beaker Folk were a patriarchal society, and it is during the Bronze Age that the individual warrior-chief or king gained importance, contrasting with the community orientation of the Neolithic times.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/Bronze_Age.htm (660 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Be-Benjamin I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		People and Peoples (Be-Benjamin I) The Beaker People were formerly thought to be people of Iberian origin who spread out over Europe in the 2nd millennium BC, however, it is now (since about 1990) known that they were in fact an industrialized and highly organised indigenous British stone-age people who built Stonehenge in England.
		They are called the Beaker People because their remains include earthenware beakers.
		The Bemba are an African people of northern Zambia.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /C2B.HTM (1069 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The United Kingdom has had a long history of immigration, from the Beaker people of the 3rd millennium BC, to the waves of invasions by the Roman Empire, the Anglo-Saxons and Normans, to the settlement of people arriving from the Colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries and finally to modern immigration.
		It was originally thought that the settlers that came with these beakers also had other defining features that show they are distinctive from earlier dwellers of the British Isles, such as the development of metalworking and the mode of burial of the dead that came into use at about this time.
		However it is generally accepted by archeologists today that the beakers and other artefacts found across Europe that are attributed to the Beaker people are indicative of the development of particular manufacturing skills, possibly by the influence of neighbouring peoples, rather than as a result of mass migrations that spread independently of any population movement.
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	Beaker People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The dichotomy is not as clear cut as many thought, and on Anglesey people buried with Beakers seem to have been longheaded (Muir and Welfare, 1983; 101).
		If the users of the Beaker assemblage were not a coherent group, then perhaps there was no Beaker invasion, but a spread of Beaker ideas though prehistoric Europe and into Britain via trade contacts which stimulated a native development of Stone circles.
		Beaker culture as a gradual adoption of new beliefs, merging old and new traditions encouraging development from early Stone circles to late ones.
	www.le.ac.uk /archaeology/rug/AR210/circles/project/beaker.htm (451 words)

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		It is beyond the scope of this paper to discuss all of the different tribes of people that invaded, retreated from, and affected the inhabitants of Britain during the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
		The Beaker people were so called because they buried beakers with their dead.
		Like the Beaker people who instigated the Bronze Age, and later the Romans, but unlike the Celts who initiated the Iron Age, and later the Saxons, the Normans were small in number but had a profound effect on British culture and society.
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	Welcome to Inkpen Village
		The beaker people are credited with breaking the mould of nomadic existence by "settling" to farming.
		The beaker people are defined by their pottery, but they also made the first woven garments in Britain and seem to have introduced the first alcoholic drink into Britain, a form of honey-based mead.
		Early (neolithic) beaker people buried their dead in simple stone mounds we call round barrows, often with a beaker alongside the body.
	www.inkpen-village.co.uk /history.html (2041 words)

	Muppet Central Articles - Reviews: Muppet Show Busts Series 1
		Beaker is by far the tallest of the group at 9.75 inches and Rowlf is the widest character at 4.5 inches.
		Beaker's mouth is very detailed with his tongue accurately displayed within his deep curved mouth.
		Beaker is holding a beaker appropriately enough as if Bunsen is insisting he drink the latest Muppet Labs concoction.
	www.muppetcentral.com /articles/reviews/merchandise/busts_series_1.shtml (1467 words)

	INTRODUCTION
		Their name, the Beaker people, is given to them because they used a special type of pottery vessel known to archaeologists as a beaker.
		It has been possible to identify several different groups of these people from the variations in shape and decoration of the pottery found, with other personal possessions, in their graves, In Somerset the earliest form, the Bell-beaker, was found at Culbone, on Exmoor, with a crouched skeleton in a stone-lined grave or cist.
		The Beaker people later came into contact with a group which had adopted the practice of cremation and used a different kind of pottery food-vessel, or urn, with a bevelled rim.
	www.somerset.gov.uk /archives/ASH/Beakpeop.htm (1186 words)

	Archaeology: The Beaker Period \| British History Online
		Most Beaker burials are inhumations, sometimes under round barrows, accompanied by a few grave goods, (Footnote 62) and the combinations of objects of different materials found in such graves enable similar objects from Middlesex to be correlated better than those of any succeeding prehistoric period.
		The Beaker people are further distinguished from the purely Neolithic societies because they introduced into Britain the use of metal artifacts.
		Cord-Zoned beakers are only commonly to be found in north Britain but a fine one was dredged from the Thames near Mortlake.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22098 (1768 words)

	Beaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See Beaker culture for the archaeological culture often called the Beaker people.
		See Beaker (muppet) for the hapless assistant of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew on The Muppet Show.
		See Beaker (musician) for the Christian songwriter, musician, and Rich Mullins collaborator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beaker (113 words)

	Celt 1 History Yan Kraffe & Friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The people were organised into clans, which were subdivided into lineages (fine), stressing the paternal side of kinship reckoning.
		The main theme in the historical-mythological cycle concerns the peopling of Ireland and the fortunes of the Tuatha De Danann (People of the Goddess Danann), who were the mythological ancestors of the Irish.
		In period II (c.2100 BC) people of the Beaker culture built an earthwork approach road, now called the Avenue, to the entrance of the bank and ditch.
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	Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion: Archæological terms: B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beakers found with burials in single graves with crouched inhumations, in blocking deposits of some chambered tombs and causewayed enclosures, and in ditch fills of henges.
		Beaker pottery was introduced by the Beaker people around 2750 BC and remained in use until 1950 BC.
		Beakers were coiled pots, decorated – often with a twisted cord – and with a haematite slip; they may have been polished or burnished.
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	paleo Ideofact
		They are known as Beaker people from the style of burial where many excavated skeletons are found to have a small pot with them.
		Perhaps most fascinating, aside from the beakers and some metalwork and burial mounds, they left little behind to tell us who they were, what they believed, what tyrants they feared, what battles they fought, their tragedies and triumphs, all the anguish of their desires.
		The expansion of Islam brought non-Arab peoples into the fold as converts (and I tend to reject the notion that this was accomplished primarily by the sword); indeed, some of the most famous Islamic scholars and scientists were not Arabs.
	ideofact.blogspot.com /2002_11_10_ideofact_archive.html (3370 words)

	History of THE CELTS McHale Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They appear to be one of the earliest warrior aristocracies in Europe, which is inferred from the grave goods buried with their chieftains, which include archery equipment with flint tipped arrows and a stone arm bracer to withstand the rebound of the bow string.
		One other item is found in the graves of the Beaker People, and it is an object that speaks volumes about the centuries ahead and the changes that were about to occur.
		The Beaker People adopted this new style of axe; however, they copied it in stone, as the raw materials and techniques for making copper had not yet arrived.
	www.martinmchale.com /clan/celt.html (2006 words)

	Beaker People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Another suggestion that the Beaker People worshipped the sun is that they changed the main axis of the henge by throwing 25 feet of the bank back into the ditch.
		The Beaker People also included a rectangle around the original standing Four Stations, which are thought to have been erected during the building of the first stage of Stonehenge, with the stones marking its corners.
		The Beaker People are thought to have also built Avebury.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/b/beaker_people.html (401 words)

	The Peoples
		The peoples to the north were regarded by both the Greeks and Romans to be completely alien and separate.
		The Beaker people, named after the Bell Beaker that is found in their sites, were, it seems, a war-like people, for their burial mounds include archery equipment and daggers.
		In later history, Europeans would scour the globe in search of metals and other raw materials; in their earliest manifestation on the world stage, however, the Europeans were largely a source of raw materials for more powerful states to the east and the south.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MA/PEOPLES.HTM (1365 words)

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		Beaker cultures, the term for the people in many parts of western Europe at the end of the Neolithic period (c.2600-2200 BC) who made and used a particular type of decorated pottery drinking-vessel.
		The style of 'Beaker' pottery seems to have developed in the Lower Rhine area, though it absorbed motifs from other areas with which it was in contact by sea and river routes.
		Presumably you are examining this topic because of the influence of nineteenth century and early twentieth racial theories by people such as Warne and Abercromby, which promulgated the notion of a Beaker people who conquered large parts of Europe (a view neatly summarised by Jane Richards).
	www.glaucus.org.uk /Barrow.txt (1014 words)

	The Bell Beaker Interaction Sphere. © The Comparative Archaeology WEB
		Bell Beakers do not belong to a unified culture, but rather an interaction sphere, because there are considerable regional differences combined with an interregional system of shared symbols expressed in prestige goods.
		In Denmark, the Bell Beakers are thought to follow the Single Grave culture, a variant of the Corded Ware culture, possibly starting in the late “Upper Grave” period of the Middle Neolithic B (MN B).
		Around 1900 BC numerous round-barrows (tumuli) are constructed for the burial of important Beaker people in the vicinity of Stonehenge.
	www.comp-archaeology.org /Bellbeaker.htm (1022 words)

	Burlington WI UFO and Paranormal Center, Burlington Wisconsin, Burlington UFO and Paranormal Center
		The Berbers were an active sea-going people, known for their long distance ocean voyaging.
		Around the mounds were "Sacred Circles" that served as holy "meeting places" for the people; and the mounds themselves, therefore, served as maraboutic shrines in the time-honored Berber/Canaanite tradition.
		The Adena burial rites were a mixture of the old and the new; and the bodies of the ruling class and other important people were usually sprinkled with RED OCHRE and laid to rest with a variety of artifacts such as flints, beads, pipes, and mica and copper ornaments.
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	CHAPTER 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The builders of the first megaliths are identified as the Long Barrow people, from the shape of their graves, whilst the first metal-using people, who are believed to have initiated the Bronze Age around 1,600 BC., are named the Beaker people, on account of the distinctive shape of their pottery.
		The Beaker people are believed to have originated in northern Europe, and to have overrun and absorbed the earlier Neolithic settlers, just as their descendants were in turn overrun by the Celts.
		Archaeologists were astonished at the wealth exhibited in the tombs of the Wessex people, that branch of the so-called Early Bronze Age responsible for the final phase of Stonehenge.
	www.consciousevolution.com /Rennes/arthurchapter7.htm (5784 words)

	Avebury, love nest, Womb. Stonehenge, a man made Sun.
		Most people who study the English Stone Age become convinced, sooner or later, that Stonehenge was designed to bring the Sun and Moon together, but amongst the plethora of circumstantial evidence that can be collected from around the whole country, there is so far, very little proof to be found.
		These people gained their present day fame when they arrived in England for at least the second time more than 4,000 years ago, when bringing Gold, Bronze, and their beautifully decorated drinking vessels, which archaeologists today have called "Beakers".
		Most people know that the four stones surrounding Stonehenge were set up to form a perfect rectangle that point to at least three important solar and lunar events, thus combining the Sun and Moon together.
	www.geocities.com /tmwfl (4659 words)

	Virtual Tour of Knowth - Earliest evidence to Norman period
		You don’t normally consider Stone Age people to be all that intelligent, advanced technologically, or even well organised socially, but obviously these New Stone Age people were highly advanced, highly skilled engineers and astronomers, who were very well organised and extremely dedicated to their spiritual beliefs and to the spirits of their dead.
		Maybe people were employed to build the tombs, while the others farmed the land to support the tribe; or maybe they worked in shifts.
		The early Bronze Age people were known as the ‘Beaker People’ because of the style of pottery they used.
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	Articles - Beaker culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beaker culture are defined by the common use of a pottery style -- a beaker with a distinctive bell-shaped profile found across the western part of the Continent during the late 3rd millennium BC.
		The beakers seem to be associated with the consumption of mead or perhaps beer and are likely part of a larger prestige-oriented cultural package.
		In contrast to this, Marija Gimbutas derived the Beakers from east central European cultures that became "Kurganized" by incursions of steppe tribes.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Beaker_culture?mySession=416a5acf6bfab952b80e1a35b2d67790 (633 words)

	Beaker people
		They were skilled in metalworking, and are associated with distinctive earthenware drinking vessels with various designs, in particular, a type of beaker with a bell-shaped profile, widely distributed throughout Europe.
		The Beaker people favoured individual inhumation (burial of the intact body), often in round barrows, or secondary burials in some form of chamber tomb.
		A beaker typically accompanied male burials, possibly to hold a drink for the deceased on their final journey.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0003087.html (152 words)

	How Stonehenge Was Built and it's Many Theories
		They were named the Beaker People (or Beaker Folk) because they bury Beakers with body of a dead person.
		The Wessex people were believed to come along around 1500 B.C. after the Beaker people.
		People feel as if their talents were required for the building of Stonehenge.
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	The Beaker People
		How some people kept their faces straight when they were being told off by an earnest, important looking man whose crown was decorated with a blob of grease topped by a white beaker, I will never know.
		The sight of two earnest people wandering side by side to the canteen, each with a white plastic cup stuck to his helmet visible to everyone but himself is something not easily forgotten.
		This kind of joke was played on people for years and only stopped when the plant ground to a halt in 1980.
	home.freeuk.net /jochenlueg/tales/beaker.htm (1124 words)

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