Bell Beaker Research Paper

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Around the beginning of the third millennium BC many new innovations occurred in Late Neolithic Europe. Apart from the already introduced wheel and plough from the fourth millennium BC, new developments like the first use of copper objects west of the Balkans took place. This is the reason why the Late Neolithic is often referred to as the Copper Age. There were also many changes in the burial rituals – from collective megalithic monuments to individual graves under burial mounds. Archaeologists connect these cultural changes with the occurring of the Corded Ware (the first half of the third millennium BC) and the Bell Beaker (the second half of the third millennium BC). One particular site from the Bell Beaker culture is the Amesbury Archer grave, which will be mainly discussed in this essay.
The full history of the Bell Beaker culture covers a period of around one thousand years – from the middle of the third millennium BC, when a new type of pottery is …show more content…
It is known that villages were in a square shape with timber houses built in a tripartite way. This is also due to the location of these settlements in areas where they are usually hard to find - river valleys, coastal areas, river plains and more. Big tree trunks were needed for the foundation of the houses – the central posts and the ridge beams, and many small branches for the roof and fences.
Other main characteristic of this culture is the set of objects usually found in the burial sites from this period. This set of burial gifts most often consists of a bell beaker, flint arrowhead, wrist guard, copper ‘dagger’, a small flint blade, a copper dagger, boar-tusk pendants and sometimes some other ‘special’ objects (Watkins 2013). The dead are put in a crouched position with one arm under the head. It can be seen that apparently archery was extremely important. One typical example of a Bell Beaker burial is the Amesbury Archer
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