A Tentative Reclassification of British Beaker Pottery in the Light of Recent Research (Fig. I)

Abstract

(p. 179)

The history of the analysis and classification of British Beakers between I870-I960 is too well known to need any lengthy restatement here. This complex 'tradition' has been summarised and restated in a more modern guise by Professor Piggott in his recent paper (I963). All that I wish to do at this stage is to emphasise four salient features underlying the current classification of British Beaker material.