Bell Beakers?

[Curtis24]

What are the origins of the Bell Beakers? what ancient ethnicity, if any, are they associated with?

What language group do scholars believe the Bell Beakers were associated with? Basque, a Semitic language, etc.? Or is it lost to time? Is the language of the bell Beakers believed to contribute to any ancient or modern-day languages?

Did the Beakers conquer the Megalith culture, or were the two separate at the time of the Celtic invasions?

[Kale]

Google ist thou friend.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?136784-H-mtdna-comes-from-Iberia

It, and celts, came from iberia.

[Empecinado]

Seems that the bell Beaker culture was born in the Iberian peninsula a and spread through a large migration that reached Central Europe. Some say that the Celtic languages ​​could be derived from some sort of proto-Celtic spoken by them.


From around 2800 BC, the LNE Bell Beaker culture emerged from the Iberian Peninsula to form one of the first pan-European archaeological complexes. This cultural phenomenon is recognised by a distinctive package of rich grave goods including the eponymous bell-shaped ceramic beakers. The genetic affinities between Central Europe’s Bell Beakers and present-day Iberian populations (Fig. 2) is striking and throws fresh light on long-disputed archaeological models3. We suggest these data indicate a considerable genetic influx from the West during the LNE. These far-Western genetic affinities of Mittelelbe-Saale’s Bell Beaker folk may also have intriguing linguistic implications, as the archaeologically-identified eastward movement of the Bell Beaker culture has recently been linked to the initial spread of the Celtic language family across Western Europe39. This hypothesis suggests that early members of the Celtic language family (for example, Tartessian)40 initially developed from Indo-European precursors in Iberia and subsequently spread throughout the Atlantic Zone; before a period of rapid mobility, reflected by the Beaker phenomenon, carried Celtic languages across much of Western Europe. This idea not only challenges traditional views of a linguistic spread of Celtic westwards from Central Europe during the Iron Age, but also implies that Indo-European languages arrived in Western Europe substantially earlier, presumably with the arrival of farming from the Near East41

http://dienekes.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/mtdna-haplogroup-h-and-origin-of.html

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