The Beaker people displayed different behaviours from the earlier Neolithic people and cultural change was significant.
There is an ancient burial site of the Beaker people just outside the village, which had been forgotten until its discovery in 1975.
The rest of the period is the story of a mysterious phenomenon: the Beaker people.
Pottery of the Beaker people has been found at both sites, dating to several centuries after copper-working began there.
Standing stones are usually difficult to date, but pottery found underneath some in western Europe connects them with the Beaker people.
Historical craniometric studies found that the Beaker people appeared to be of a different physical type than those earlier populations in the same geographic areas.
Non-metrical research concerning the Beaker people in Britain also cautiously pointed in the direction of immigration.
Evidence of the Beaker people living near Swarkestone was discovered in the 1950s.
The existence of the migratory "Beaker people" is still very much the popular position.
From around 2150 BC, the Beaker people learned how to make bronze, and use both tin and gold.