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What linked the Bell Beakers in third millennium BC Europe?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Marc Vander Linden
Marc Vander Linden*
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER UK (Email: mavdlind@gmail.com)
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In this important new review the author shows that neither trade nor migration can account for the distribution of Bell Beakers and the associated artefacts and burial practices in Europe. The materials were generally local and rooted in local know-how. However recent stable isotope results show small-scale population changes associated with the arrival of Beaker practice. The distribution of Bell Beakers could thus reflect the movement of marriage partners.

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EuropeNeolithicBronze AgeBell Beakerspopulation movementstable isotope analysis
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Antiquity , Volume 81 , Issue 312 , 1 June 2007 , pp. 343 - 352
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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