Beaker folk
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.
Origin of Beaker folk
1- Also called Beaker people.
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How to use Beaker folk in a sentence
If I hadn't known better, I would have sworn he was born one of the Beaker folk.
The Time Traders | Andre NortonWe are forced to admit that we are in total ignorance of the language spoken by the Beaker-folk.
The Bronze Age and the Celtic World | Harold Peake
British Dictionary definitions for Beaker folk
a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
Origin of Beaker folk
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