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Different types of artefacts of the Bell Beakers:

1: Distribution of tanged copper daggers in the Bell Beaker culture
2: Distribution of Palmela points in the Bell Beaker culture (its unclear wether these were meant to be arrowheads or lanceheads)
3: Distribution of copper halberds in the Bell Beaker culture
4: Distribution of golden lunulae in the Bell Beaker culture

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The ceramics of the Vučedol culture have almost nothing in Common with that of the Yamnaya culture, instead drawing heavily from that of the Baden and Kostolac cultures. What the Vučedol does inherit are the Shaft-Hole axes and Kurgan burials, which are spares in Pannonia but become dominant in the Adriatic under the Ljubljana and Cetina cultures.
The Vučedol culture also heavily influences its neighbours, most notably the Bell Beaker culture. Bell Beaker "Begleitkeramik" of the East Group is influenced very heavily on that of the Mako variant of the Vucedol Culture, especially the Cross-footed bowls, which the Vucedol Culture also shares with the Catacomb Culture.

Despite this connection, the Vučedol is likely not just the ancestor of Illyrians, but also Daco-Thracians. E-V13 remains largely obscure until after Vučedol, and would have been assimilated by IE-Speakers descended of the Vučedol somewhere in Banat during the Broomstroke Horizon period. This Horizon formed primarily out of the Mako variant of the Vučedol Culture and expanded into Oltenia and Transylvania, becoming the basis for the Verbicioara, Vatin, Maros, Wieternberg and Tei cultures. The Vatin culture would later evolve into the Belegis Culture and the Channelled ware Horizon, spreading E-V13 and Daco-Thracian.

Unfortunately, all of these groups cremated, so we can only speculate about their ethnicity using archaeological origins and influences.

Samples from the Vučedol culture are scarce, with two having 32-36%-65-60% PIE-Neolithic ancestry.
Of the two samples with Steppe ancestry, one is male, with Y-DNA R1b-Z2103>M12149, which further supports a Yamnaya origin.
The one sample without Steppe is G2a2-PF3148 and located in Dalmatia, most likely an individual of the late Lasinja culture that managed to assimilate into Vučedol Civilization.

Another haplogroup that is certain to have existed in Vučedol is J-L283, the haplogroup dominant in the later Cetina Culture, which evolves seamlessly out of the Adriatic variant of the Ljubljana Vučedol Culture. J-L283 also appears in the Maros/Mokrin culture, which is descended from the Mako and Nyirseg, thus ultimately, Vučedol cultures. This haplogroup was also later common in the Glasinac-Mati culture and the historical Illyrians.

Map of the Vučedol Culture 3000-2500bc

The Vučedol Culture is a poorly understood yet incredibly significant culture, representing the Indo-Europeanization of the balkans, initiation of the bronze age, social stratification, and rise of the warrior caste.

The Vučedol Culture forms first in the Slavonia-Syrmia area between the Danube and Sava around 3000 or 3100bc, formed in the basis of the preceding Kostolac Culture, with influence from the Yamnaya Culture.

This culture expanded rapidly after 2800bc, occupying the entire pannonian basin as well as the adriatic coast, displacing the previous eneolithic cultures and/or absorbing them.
Part of the Vučedol cultures dominance is owed to the unqiue shaft-hole axes. In the early phase, Babyabic axes of the Yamnaya Culture were used, which were developed into Kozarac and Fajsz axes in later periods.

An example of the Beaker Type (Flat Occiput and tall head)

Craniometric types (Skull Shapes) of the Bell Beaker Culture in Europe (2500-2200bc)

The Primary form of the Beaker culture, the "Beaker Type" is Hypsimorph Brachycephalic with a Flat Occiput, but there is also a Brachiform Cromagnid type. The two are hard to distinguish and get confused by some authors

From Das Glockenbecher Phänomen - Ein Seminar, 1995

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