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Covering vast swathes of Europe, the Bell Beaker Phenomenon has enjoyed a privileged status in the history of archaeology and is often referred to as a key period in the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age partly due to the emergence of social élites. After a brief presentation of the historiography of the Bell Beaker phenomenon, this Element offers a synthetic account of the available evidence structured on a regional basis. Following the renewed interest in human mobility generated by stable isotopes and ancient DNA studies, the central thesis developed here is that the Bell Beaker Phenomenon can adequately be described as a metapopulation, a concept borrowed from population ecology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Introduction -- O tempora O mores : Building an epistemological procedure for modeling socio-anthropological factors: stakes, choices, hypotheses and constraints -- From culture difference to a measure of ethnogenesis -- Modeling niche construction in Neolithic Europe -- A new reading of the French Bronze Age using data from development-led archaeology: Bronze Age survey database (DatABronze) -- What can a MAS tell us about the Bantu migrations 3000 years ago? -- The evolutionary transition from biologically to culturally based social systems: Qualitative modeling issues -- Data models, connectivity between sites and the chaîne opératoire approach: the chalcolithic southern levant as a case study -- Conclusion