The History of the Analysis and Classification of British Bell Beakers

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The history of the analysis and classification of British Beakers between I870-I960 is toa well known to need any lengthy restatemenJ here. This complex 'tradition' has been summarised and restated i , n a more modem 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 classificat...(展開全部) The history of the analysis and classification of British Beakers between I870-I960 is toa well known to need any lengthy restatemenJ here. This complex 'tradition' has been summarised and restated i , n a more modem 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: i. Abercromby's scheme of 'A, B, C,' beaker groups (Abereromby, I9I2, p. I8) was based on the "excellent" system of division by shape variation devised by Thumam (I87I). The British Beakers were basically separated into three groups according to their shape alone - "ovoid cups with recurved rims", "low brimmed cups" and "high brimmed cups". Thurnam's 'eventually Piggott's 'Long neck, Bell and Short neck' Beaker groups. In these schemes the decoration, motifs and zonal styles of the Beakers are not integrated into the process of classification, merely being described for the classes aiready defined by shape alone. This faet makes these schemes, or rather scheme, completely at variance with modem ethnological/archaeological thought.

The History of the Analysis and Classification of British Bell Beakers

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