Cutting ties with continental Europe in around 3000 BC, ancient Britons abandoned innovation and shunned trade. Why did they ...

The study looked at people buried before and after the arrival of the Beaker culture, which spread across Europe and can be tracked through its distinctive pottery. Prof Ian Barnes, Research Leader in ...

However, archaeologists found sherds of Beaker pottery in her grave, hinting that she was part of the Beaker culture, named for its peoples' bell-shaped beakers. Research suggests that the Beaker ...

Many experts believed it was just Beaker pottery-making and culture which was exported to Britain between 4,400 and 4,700 years ago - not the people themselves. But the new evidence comes from DNA ...

The term ‘Bell Beaker’ was introduced by late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century archaeologists to refer to a distinctive pottery style found across western and central Europe at the end ...

A small beaker bought with a job lot of pottery for under £100 has sold for a whopping £45,000 after it was found to be an incredibly rare piece of porcelain. The three-inch tall cup with a ...

Starting around 8,500 years ago, agriculture spread into Europe from the southeast, accompanied by a movement of people from Anatolia. This study reports data from the genomes of 225 ancient people ...

In 2018, Museum scientists were part of the largest study ever conducted using DNA from archaeological human remains from Britain, and found that the migration of these 'Beaker people', so-called ...