Abstrakt
The Bell Beaker Phenomenon was established by archaeologists mainly according to the occurrence of significant items of material culture distributed over the western part of the European Continent. After more than hundred years of discussions and disputes scholars prevalently agree that this was not a single archaeological culture in the conventional sense of the term.
Also the original ideas on massive migration of specific anthropological group of people have merely faded away. The more recent studies emphasize the variability in the cultural dissemination in different regions and changing meaning of formally homogeneous in the centre and periphery.
While discussing meaning of the Beaker Phenomenon we should not only focus on the widespread uniformity in material culture but merely on the ideology/cosmology and social order that was probably attached to it. I am going to stress that the process of distribution of this widely spread phenomenon and its meaning might have differ in some regions and the impact of the uniform style in material culture was perhaps perceived differently in the centre and in the periphery of its distribution.