| 单词 | beaker people |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbeaker people c. spec. in Archaeology. A type of tall wide-mouthed vessel found in the graves of a people who came to Britain from Central Europe in the early Bronze Age; hence attributive, as beaker-folk, beaker-maker, beaker people. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > beaker (Bronze Age) beaker1902 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > person of specific prehistoric culture > Bronze Age > collectively beaker-folk1922 beaker people1932 1902 J. Abercromby in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 32 374 I propose to substitute for the double-barrelled name ‘drinking cup’, the compacter term ‘beaker’. 1906 Archaeol. Æliana II. 147 The Dilstor Park find..also proves the great difficulty of attempting to fix any relevant dates of Bronze Age beakers by a comparison either of their shape or ornamentation. 1916 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 66 117 The Borreby, or Beaker-Maker Type... Probably tall and often fair, light eyed, broad headed, short faced. 1922 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 52 45 The culture is that known in Britain as that of the Beaker-folk. 1932 Discovery Aug. 270/1 The Bronze Age in England began roughly about 2,000 b.c. with the arrival of the ‘Beaker’ people on the east coast—people who used bronze and copper knives and pots of a special type. 1935 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. i. 83 A solitary beaker from a cist at Barroose, Lonan, and three polished flint discoidal knives from the neighbourhood of Peel, are the only indications of the beaker people on the island. 1963 H. N. Savory in I. L. Foster & L. Alcock Culture & Environment iii. 26 The barbed and tanged arrowheads which were undoubtedly introduced into south Wales by the ‘Beaker Folk’. < as lemmas |
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