
They are found in well-defined natural and cultural contexts. As its name indicates, these beakers have the shape of inverted bells, and were decorated with various geometric patterns.

Typical bell-beaker from Atting, now at Gubodenmuseum Straubing, Bavaria. The 3 rd millennium BC in Occidental Europe and Northern Africa is marked by the appearance of a very specific type of ceramic: the bell beaker. Below are predicted skin, hair, and eye color for new genomes from Neolithic, Copper Age, and Bronze Age Europe, most of which are from the people of the Bell Beaker culture. Bell-beakers have been found from North Africa to southern Scotland and from Portugal to the far east of Europe, but are particularly common in the Rhinevalley and the coasts of the North Sea. This label refers to ceramic vases with an S-shaped profile and a distinctive decoration organized in horizontal bands of repeated motifs.
