From about 2400 BC the Beaker folk culture expanded eastwards, into the Corded Ware horizon. In its early phase, the Bell Beaker culture can be seen as the western contemporary of the Corded Ware culture of Central Europe. The term's English translation Bell Beaker was introduced by John Abercromby in 1904. The name Glockenbecher was coined for its distinctive style of beakers by Paul Reinecke in 1900. The Bell Beaker culture was partly preceded by and contemporaneous with the Corded Ware culture, and in north-central Europe preceded by the Funnelbeaker culture. The Bell Beaker phenomenon shows substantial regional variation, and a study from 2018 found that it was associated with genetically diverse populations.
The culture was widely dispersed throughout Western Europe, being present in many regions of Iberia and stretching eastward to the Danubian plains, and northward to the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and was also present in the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and some small coastal areas in north-western Africa.
Arising from around 2800 BC, it lasted in Britain until as late as 1800 BC but in continental Europe only until 2300 BC, when it was succeeded by the Unetice culture. One of the cists – described at the time as a “dagger grave” – was set in sand and almost completely destroyed, while the other two burials were partly preserved and found to contain human remains, both showing traces of burning.The Bell Beaker culture (also described as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon) is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the European Bronze Age. From Aberdeen Uni’s collections of Beaker People skeletons.įragments of pottery and flint objects were found next to the bones, which were placed in the grave in a crouching position. The human remains are thought to have belonged to so-called Beaker People, named after the decorative beakers and pots found in their graves. The remains of three graves were later found to date back to around 3,000 BC.Įxpert post-excavation analysis and research on the bones will take place some 42 years on as part of a £142,040 raft of funding awards to 11 heritage projects across Scotland from the Historic Environment Support Fund.Īnd Historic Environment Scotland (HES), which administers the fund, said findings from the analysis and research “will be published and archived and a pop-up exhibition at Kirkcaldy Galleries will be launched to engage young people with archaeology”.
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Three Early Bronze Age graves were found in June 1980, when a bulldozer driver demolishing the former site of Stahly’s butcher just off Kirkcaldy High Street spotted a skull protruding from the sand. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner.Īrchaeologists are to study 5,000-year-old human skeletons uncovered on the site of a former Fife butcher’s shop. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Information An icon of an information logo. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across.
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