bell beaker

noun

, Archaeology.

1. a bell-shaped beaker, especially one associated with the Beaker folk.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bell beaker¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Around the same time the Bréviandes group was buried, the “bell beaker” culture, characterized by distinctively shaped pots, was beginning to spread across Europe, eventually stretching from the Danube River to Ireland and even to North Africa.

From Science Magazine

The intensive use of dairy products continued particularly amongst the Bell Beaker populations, who did not seem have the same preference for pork.

From Science Daily

But if you insist: It's conceivable that the Bell Beaker folk — so named for their distinctive pottery — brought some super-early proto-Celtic language with them to Britain and Ireland that evolved into modern Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Breton.

From Salon

Let's get back to Newgrange, which was built way before the Bell Beaker folk and the imaginary Celts: I'm not telling you to scrub off that triple-spiral tattoo in shame.

From Salon

To cut a very long story short, the revolutionary DNA research conducted by Reich, Fischer and various others tells us that modern people of Irish or Scottish descent mostly carry genetic material from the "Bell Beaker people" who moved to those islands from central Europe around 4,000 years ago — and were themselves descended from the "Yamnaya culture" who brought the horse and the wheel into Europe from the steppes of modern-day Ukraine and Russia.

From Salon