Bell Beaker Culture (1 janv. 2500 av. J.-C. – 1 janv. 2000 av. J.-C.)

Description:

Bell Beaker Culture: 2500-2000 BC

Burial:
- individual in crouched position on his/her side;
- The grave is marked with a round burial mound.
> Characteristic artifacts can be:
- Decorated Bell-shaped beaker;
- Tanged copper dagger;
- Flint arrowheads;
- Wristguard (archery);
- gold or amber ornaments;
- A cushion stone (smith)(metalworking implement)

Whereas Corded Ware is mainly found in East, Ventral and north Europe, Bell Beaker graves are mainly found in western Europe;

In west Europe, Bell Beaker culture is the first with metallurgy (copper and gold);

Bell Beaker people from the Netherlands migrated into England
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" fashion or a drinking cult"

-> Amesbury (archer grave), UK (The Human Past, 416, fig. 12.35).

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"In its mature phase, the Bell Beaker culture is understood as not only a collection of characteristic artefact types, but a complex cultural phenomenon involving metalwork in copper and gold, archery, specific types of ornamentation, and (presumably) shared ideological, cultural and religious ideas"(wiki)