Pot beakers and the Barbed-Wire beakers, coarse ware of local origin but similar toĬord-Zoned beakers are only commonly to be found in north Britain but a fine one LongNecked beakers are therefore considered a local and late variant.
23) These are sometimes associated with grave goods, like stone battleaxes, which on the Continent are later in date than the Bell-beaker culture. From the Short-Necked beakers were derived the LongNecked beakers. Northern Britain introduced the Short-Necked beaker (Abercromby's type C) as well as Of Europe introduced into Britain Cord-Zoned beakers (which Gordon Childe calledī3) and later the Bell beakers (Abercromby's type B) the Barrel beakers (Abercromby'sī2) were British derivations from them.
In Professor Piggott's classification, about 2000 B.C. The main types of beakers are represented in Middlesex. Was modified later and in 1963 completely revised by Professor Stuart Piggott. 18) British beakers were classified in 1912 by Abercromby but this classification 17) which may often have originated as copies of basketry and wooden Sometimes polished on the outside and almost always decorated with impressed ornament in patterns (fn. 16) Beaker pottery is flat-based and usually of good quality ware, The most characteristic and extensively studied item in the Beaker people's equipment is their pottery. 14) but the wide diffusion of their pottery suggests a mobile andĮnergetic people, and their grave goods indicate fairly extensive trading activities. 12) Archery played an important part in their lives. 11) They were perhaps the first inhabitants of Britain 10)Īnd cultivated flax and cereals, growing much more barley than wheat, in striking contrast to the Windmill Hill farmers. Other evidence from outside Middlesex shows that the Beaker people kept livestock (fn. One copper knife of a type occasionally found with beakers has come from the Thames Recognized by regarding them as belonging to a chalcolithic phase, in which peopleīasically at a stone age cultural level have begun to acquire a metal equipment. 9) but their transitional position in this respect is better They are therefore often regarded as a Neolithic It is generallyīelieved that the Beaker people did not themselves make these goods but imported Primitive metal goods have, however, come from British Beaker burials. 8) but metal objects have never been found with that pottery. Its place of origin in the Near East while the British Neolithic pottery already described Knowledge of metalworking, first in copper, and later in bronze, had been spreading through Europe from The Beaker people are further distinguished from the purely Neolithic societiesīecause they introduced into Britain the use of metal artifacts. Those of any succeeding prehistoric period. 7) and the combinations of objects of different materialsįound in such graves enable similar objects from Middlesex to be correlated better than Most Beaker burials are inhumations, sometimes under round barrows, accompanied by a few grave goods, (fn. Has remained ever since, in one form or another, the prevailing burial rite in this country. Unlike the Neolithic settlers, they buried dead in individual graves, a practice which Most of our fragmentary knowledge of the Beaker people comes from their burials. People, and to gain some idea of their activities it is necessary to look at more informative discoveries elsewhere. The Middlesex relics, which are all unassociated finds, tell us little about the Beaker Lived in the area, mostly on the Thames-side gravels like the Neolithic inhabitants. The county has produced none of the graves or other structural remains with whichīeakers have often been found elsewhere, but the finds imply that some Beaker people With it have been found in Middlesex, mostly in the Thames to the west of London. 5)Ībout a dozen pieces of Beaker pottery and some of the objects normally associated 4) but those who reached Britain seem to have come mainly from northwest Europe. 3) Beaker people ranged extraordinarily widely over 2) whence they spread over most of the country, penetrating, and probablyĭominating, the Neolithic societies. They evidently landed at various times and places on the south and eastĬoasts, (fn. 1) These were the Beaker people, so named from their distinctive While the Neolithic cultures were flourishing, fresh bands of continental immigrantsĮntered Britain.
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