Beaker folk
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.
historical examples
if i hadn’t known better, i would have sworn he was born one of the beaker folk.
the time traders andre norton
noun
a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the iberian peninsula and spread to central europe and britain during the second millennium bc
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