Beaker folk

[bee-ker]

noun

1. a late Neolithic to Copper Age people living in Europe, so called in reference to the bell beakers commonly found buried with their dead in barrows.

Beaker folk

noun

1. a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium _bc

Word History and Origins

Origin of Beaker folk¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Word History and Origins

Origin of Beaker folk¹

C20: named after the beakers found among their remains