Beaker folk
[ bee-ker ]
/ ˈbi kər /
noun
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.
Also called
Beaker people.
Origin of Beaker folk
First recorded in 1920–25
Example sentences from the Web for beaker folk
We are forced to admit that we are in total ignorance of the language spoken by the Beaker-folk.
The Bronze Age and the Celtic World |Harold Peake
British Dictionary definitions for beaker folk
Beaker folk
noun
a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
Word Origin for Beaker folk
C20: named after the beakers found among their remains