New study sheds light on mystery of Aberdeenshire’s Beaker people

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THEY lived at the dawn of time and take their names from objects uncovered in their graves by archaeologists thousands of years later.

And new a fresh study of the artefacts left behind by the Beaker people has shed new light on how their ideas and customs spread among ancient Scots living in the north east 4,500 years ago.

The Beaker people are said to be part of a cultural and technological explosion which swept over northern Europe, identified by the distinctive decorated pottery beakers which were placed in their graves.

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