page_title: Bell Beaker culture
section_title: Italian Peninsula
hierarchical_section_title: Bell Beaker culture / Extent and impact / Italian Peninsula
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Italian Bell Beaker sites
context_page_description: The Bell Beaker culture or short Beaker culture, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used 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 widely scattered throughout Western Europe, from various regions in Iberia and spots facing northern Africa to the Danubian plains, the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and also 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.
context_section_description: The Italian Peninsula's most affected areas are the Po Valley, in particular the area of Lake Garda, and Tuscany. The bell-shaped vases appear in these areas of central and northern Italy as "foreign elements" integrated in the pre-existing Remedello and Rinaldone cultures.
  Graves with Beaker artefacts have been discovered in the Brescia area, like that of Ca' di Marco (Fiesse), while in central Italy, bell-shaped glasses were found in the tomb of Fosso Conicchio (Viterbo).
caption: Bell Beaker sites in Italy
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