Chronology of the Beaker Complex
Based on C14 Dating

This map Compiles various C14 datings, mostly the ones from Burgeois et al with some additions, to map where the earliest Bell Beakers appeared and how they spread across Europe.

What is interesting, but perhaps already known, is that the very earliest dates are from Portugal. These are the Prototypes and early "Maritime" Beakers, which are derived seamlessly from those of the VNSP Culture, a Chalcolithic Civilization in Portugal.

These early Maritime Beakers seem to have been incredibly ppopular very early on in Catalonia and Languedoc, where the locals spread them further outward. During this early period, the Local cultures of Languedoc and cataolia still exist on their own without break.