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The Beaker Folk |
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Archaeologists have looked carefully at the skeletons from these graves and some scientists believed that they could show that the Beaker folk had larger, rounder, and more robust skulls than the Stone Age people.
It was generally assumed that the Beaker folk came from southern Europe, from "higher civilisations". As metalworking had started earlier there, it was thought that this technological and economic superiority made their expansion inevitable. The earliest Beakers seemed to come from Spain.
This interpretation seemed so strong that it was able to withstand important changes. New evidence showed that in northern Europe metalworking had started after the first beaker style burials but the existence of the Beakers, as a people, went unchallenged. Even as the idea of migrations as the main reason for change in prehistoric times became unpopular, the immigrant Beaker folk were a solid, if less than trendy, fact.
Words: Dr Andrew P Fitzpatrick
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