The expansion of the Beaker folk was thought to follow in the footsteps of the people who had carried the ideas of growing crops and keeping animals thousands of years before them. The sea crossing to Britain would still have been made in dug out canoes, a voyage only possible in the long summer months with calm seas. Even then the course may have had to be charted by the stars as the boat was paddled through the night.
Once landfall was made, canoes would have been used to travel around the shores of Britain. Beaker pots are found across England, Scotland and Wales and some of the earliest finds are from Scotland.
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