Beaker culture

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Beaker culture Distinctive Neolithic culture that spread throughout Europe in the late 3rd millennium bc. Beaker culture is characterized by single-grave burials in round barrows, and by a common type of decorated, beaker-shaped pot that accompanied the burial. It is likely that the diffusion of this culture represented a gradual spread of new ideas to existing groups, rather than the migration of large numbers of people.

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