Around the Petit-Chasseur Site in Sion (Valais, Switzerland) and New Approaches to the Bell Beaker Culture

Contents

Preface: 1961 - 2011: fifty years of discoveries and scientific studies around the site of Petit-Chasseur at Sion (Marie Besse, Philippe Curdy, Jocelyne Desideri, Alain Gallay, and Francois Wible) ;

I. The Petit-Chasseur Site in Sion (Valais, Switzerland) and the End of the Neolithic in the Alps ;
The Chronology of the Petit-Chasseur cemetery (Sion, Valais): a reply to Richard Harrison and Volker Heyd (Alain Gallay) ;

Some facts and ideas about the stelae stemming from the sites of Sion, Petit-Chasseur and Aosta, Saint-Martin de Corleans (Sebastien Favre) ;

Is it possible to estimate the size of the social group from which the individuals buried in dolmen M XII at the "Petit-Chasseur" site (Sion, Valais) stem? (Genevieve Perreard Lopreno) ;

Lithic raw materials from the Petit-Chasseur site (Jehanne Affolter) ;

The copper-based artefacts from Sion/Petit-Chasseur (Valais, Switzerland) during the Late Neolithic, the Bell Beaker period and the Early Bronze Age (3200 - 1550 BC) (Florence Cattin, Philippe Curdy, Barbara Guenette-Beck, Adrian Wichser, Andrea Ulrich, Vera Hubert, Katja Hunger, Marie Worle, Kathrin Hametner, Detlef Gunter, Carmela Chateau-Smith, Igor M. Villa and Marie Besse) ;

The exploitation of animal resources in the Final Neolithic settlement of Bramois, Immeuble Pranoe D (Valais, Switzerland). A global approach (Nicole Reynaud Savioz and Francois-Xavier Chauviere) ;

Third millennium BC ritual and burial practices in Lombardy (Marco Baioni and Raffaella Poggiani Keller) ;

Les Oullas: an image bearing rockshelter on a Neolithic Alpine path? (Claudia Defrasne and Maxence Bailly) ;

II. The Final Neolithic and the Bell Beaker Culture in Europe and beyond ;
Sion, Petit-Chasseur: a taste of Europe, and beyond (Alain Gallay) ;

Architectural organisation of the Final Neolithic lakeside villages of Concise (Vaud, Switzerland) (Ariane Winiger) ;

The Final Neolithic pottery of Concise (Vaud, Switzerland) - or what do with unattractive material? (Elena Burri-Wyser) ;

The Bell-Beaker Culture in the Canton of Fribourg (Switzerland): Current State of Research (Michel Mauvilly, Julien Spielmann and Marie Besse) ;

Bell Beaker herding and hunting in south-eastern France: an interdisciplinary approach with technological, historical and social implications (Emilie Blaise, Daniel Helmer, Fabien Convertini, Robin Furestier and Olivier Lemercier) ;

Bell Beakers in Eastern France and the Rhone-Saone-Rhine axis question (Olivier Lemercier) ;

Bell Beaker in Eastern Emilia (Northern Italy) (Nicola Dal Santo, Alessandro Ferrari, Gabriella Morico and Giuliana Steff?) [Open Access: Download] ;

Symbolic arenas for social display: the dynamics of power from the Middle-Late Neolithic to the Copper Age (c. 4000-2000 cal BC) in the Ambrona Valley (Soria, Spain) (Manuel Angel Rojo-Guerra, Rafael Garrido-Pena and Ana Mercedes Herrero-Corral) ;

From Evora to Monsaraz: brief presentation of an uncharted group of engraved Neolithic stelae from the Alentejo Central region (Portugal) (Ana Lucia Ferraz and Pascal Tramoni) ;

Study of the Chalcolithic Burial 2 and 3 of Ifri n'Amr ou Moussa (Morocco) (Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer, Youssef Bokbot, Fethi Amani and Mostafa Ouachi) ;

Effects of cultural contacts on the burial rites of the Bell Beaker - Csepel Group (Anna Endrodi) ;

The archaeobotanical evidence of burial rites of the Bell Beaker - Csepel Group (Ferenc Gyulai) ;

Social and symbolic foundations of the Beaker Phenomenon (Jan Turek) ;

The Kichary Nowe necropolis (Little Poland) and its f