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Beaker folk

American  
[bee-ker] / ˈbi kər /

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 British  

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Beaker folk

First recorded in 1920–25


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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 ● Mar. 17, 2023

Both men were armed, not only with the long-bladed daggers favored by the Beaker folk, but also with axes.

From The Time Traders by Andre Norton

If I hadn't known better, I would have sworn he was born one of the Beaker folk.

From The Time Traders by Andre Norton

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