culture decayed, being substituted by the new palatine phase of the Minoan culture of Crete. The second phase of Beaker Pottery, from c. 2100 BC onwards, was marked by the displacement of the centre of this phenomenon to Portugal, inside the culture of Vila Nova. This new centre's influence reached to all southern and western France but was absent in southern and western Iberia, with the notable exception of Los Millares. After c. 1900 BC, the centre of the Beaker Pottery returned to Bohemia, while in Iberia there was a decentralization of the phenomenon, with centres in Portugal but also in Los Millares and Ciempozuelos. See also Prehistoric Europe Bronze Age Europe Neolithic Europe Metallurgy during the Copper Age in Europe Burned house horizon References Sources External links Archeo News: Ancient civilization uncovered in Bulgaria Hindustan Times: World's oldest Copper Age settlement found Prehistoric Europe