Table of Contents

Volume I: List of text figures and tables in Volume 1; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Beaker decoration; 3. Matrix analysis and beaker classification; 4. A system for British beaker classification; 5. An outline of European beaker origins; 6. The All-Over-Cord beaker group (AOC); 7. The European Bell beaker group (E); 8. The Wessex/Middle Rhine beaker group (W/MR); 9. The Northern British/Middle Rhine beaker group (N/MR); 10. The Northern British/North Rhine beaker group (N/NR); 11. The Barbed-Wire beaker group (BW); 12. The East Anglican beaker group; (E.Ang.); 13. The Primary Northern British/Dutch beaker group (N1/D); 14. The Developed Northern British beaker group (N2); 15. The Late Northern British beaker group (N3); 16. The Final Northern British beaker group (N4); 17. The Primary Northern British beaker group (S1); 18. The Developed Southern British beaker group (S2); 19. The Late Southern British beaker group (S3); 20. The Final Southern British beaker groups (S4); 21. The Handled Southern British beaker series (SH); 22. Overall trends; 23. Associations; 24. The British setting and relative chronology; 25. Summary and conclusions; Volume II: Corpus illustrations, figs. 1-1087; Concordance list, relating the beaker corpus numbers to the figure numbers of the illustrations; Appendices; 1. Definitive characteristics; 2. Minor characteristics; 3. Associations; 4. Stratigraphy; 5. Matrix analysis and British beakers; 6. Corpus list of British beakers; 7. Distribution lists, by beaker group, of the beakers in the corpus, shown on distribution maps 1-10; Notes to chapters 1-25; References.

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In this 1970 study, Dr Clarke has collected together a relatively complete sample of the surviving culture of the Bell Beaker people.