The featured " race of Beaker Folk ", although the differences between Irish finds and e . g . the British combination of " round barrows with crouched, unburnt burials " make it difficult to establishes the exact nature of the Beaker People's colonization of Ireland.
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But many historians and archaeologists now believe that the Beaker people did not exist as a group; as Mark Patton explains, the beakers and related artefacts that are attributed to the Beaker people may well indicate the migration of a " beaker culture " rather than a " beaker people ".
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But many historians and archaeologists now believe that the Beaker people did not exist as a group; as Mark Patton explains, the beakers and related artefacts that are attributed to the Beaker people may well indicate the migration of a " beaker culture " rather than a " beaker people ".
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But many historians and archaeologists now believe that the Beaker people did not exist as a group; as Mark Patton explains, the beakers and related artefacts that are attributed to the Beaker people may well indicate the migration of a " beaker culture " rather than a " beaker people ".
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They were defined by a distinctive pottery style-a beaker with a distinctive bell-shaped profile-that spreads across the Western continent around 2000 B . C . Burial customs of the Beaker people included placing their dead in round barrows, often with a beaker, perhaps to hold a drink for the dead on their final journey.
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In the 19th and 20th centuries, scholars commonly dated the " arrival " of Celtic culture in Britain ( via an invasion model ) to the 6th century BC, corresponding to archaeological evidence of Bell Beaker People, and enabled by an extensive network of contacts that existed between the peoples of Britain and Ireland and those of the Atlantic seaboard.
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:: : : I remember reading the remarks of one historian, Frederick, I can't remember which, that some distant archaeologist might coin the term the'Ring-Pull People', along the lines of the Beaker People, to describe us, because ring-pulls would be the only evidence that we ever existed!
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It is thought that this tomb was in use for as long as 1, 000 years and at the end of this period the passage and chamber were filled to the roof by the Beaker people with earth and stones, among which were found pieces of Grooved ware, Peterborough ware and Beaker pottery, charcoal, bone tools, and beads.
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There is some debate amongst archaeologists as to whether the'Beaker people'were a race of people who migrated to Great Britain and Ireland " en masse " from the continent, or whether a prestigious Beaker cultural " package " of goods and behaviours ( which eventually spread across most of western Europe ) diffused to the islands'existing inhabitants through trade across tribal boundaries.
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The new international trade routes opened by the Beaker people became firmly established and the culture was succeeded by a number of Bronze Age cultures, among them the �ntice culture in Central Europe, the Elp culture and Hilversum culture in the Netherlands, the Atlantic Bronze Age in the British Isles and the Atlantic coast of Europe, and by the Nordic Bronze Age, a culture of Scandinavia and northernmost Germany-Poland.
