2. The Beaker People Austin Shoemaker Brit lit 11:00 8-31-10

3. 2500 B.C. the Beaker People arrive Farmers and archers First to work with metals Gold and copper then bronze

4. Hut’s for housing Pottery First alcoholic drink Introduced first women garments

5. Family cemeteries Barrow grave goods Some kind of afterlife Bronze daggers, cups, necklaces

6. Men women were accorded barrow burials. Honored corpse importance belief Men facing east, women facing west See the sun

7. Stone circles in bronze age Took after earlier Neolithic inhabitants Kept livestock and cultivated flax and cereal Windmill farmers for clothing

8. They were sun worshippers Temple of the sun Sunrise of the summer solstice The "Shining One"

9. Work cited http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22098compid=22098 http://www.suite101.com/content/the-beaker-people-a51246 http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/b/beaker_people.html http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Bronze_Age.htm