Old migration ideas
wvanhou237@aol.com
12 Nov 1996 05:16:41 GMT
I remember reading in a book (late 1940's I think) of a late
neolithic culture
in western Europe called the "Beaker culture". These I took at the time to
mean
the equivilant of the "Lake Dwellers" but scattered more generaly around
from say the
Danube River into France. Later the Beakers were surplanted by what was
called
the "Battle-axe Culture". This I understood to be still neolithic Celts.
Along with the
Battle-axers in what may have been a second wave came what this book
called
a missionary group that were responsible for the building of the
megalithic tombs
What brought this all to mind was a mention of"" beakers" I saw in
a S.A.P.
posting earlier this week. Does anything of the above have any relevence
in the
light of more modern evidence and theories in Archy and Anthro Pologies?
Anyone here old enough to know?
W F VAN HOUTEN
Older. But wiser ?
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