Beaker people
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Beaker People
Prehistoric people thought to have been of Iberian origin, who spread out over Europe from the 3rd millennium BC. 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.
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