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The Bell Beaker culture or short Beaker culture is an archaeological culture at the very beginning of the 
European Bronze Age. Arising from around 2800 BC, and lasting in continental Europe until 2300 BC, succeeded by the Unetice culture, in Britain until as late as 1800 BC. 
The culture was amply spread although widely scattered throughout Western Europe, from various regions in Iberia and spots facing northern Africa to the Danubian plains, the British Isles, and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia.
The Bell Beaker culture follows the Corded Ware culture and for north-central Europe the Funnelbeaker culture. 
The name Glockenbecher was coined for its distinctive style of beakers by Paul Reinecke in 1900.
The term's English translation Bell Beaker was introduced by  John Abercromby in 1904.In its early phase, the Bell Beaker culture can be seen as the western contemporary of the Corded Ware culture of Central Europe. From about 2400 BC, however, the "Beaker folk" expanded eastwards, into the Corded Ware horizon. In parts of Central and Eastern Europe – as far east as Poland – a sequence occurs from Corded Ware to Bell Beaker.
This period marks a period of cultural contact in Atlantic and Western Europe following a prolongued period of relative isolation during the Neolithic.
In its mature phase, the Bell Beaker culture is understood as not only a collection of characteristic artefact types, 
but a complex  cultural phenomenon involving metalwork in copper and gold, archery, specific types of ornamentation, and (presumably) shared ideological, cultural and religious ideas. 
A wide range of regional diversity persists within the widespread late Beaker culture, notably in local burial styles
(including incidences of cremation rather than inhumation), housing styles, economic profile, and local ceramic wares (Begleitkeramik).