Social:Le Petit-Chasseur
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Le Petit Chasseur is the name of a megalithic site in Sion, Valais, Switzerland. Discovered in 1961, it consists of three dolmen, dated to between 2900 and 2200 BC. It is associated with the Saône-Rhône culture, part of the local late Chaocolithic phase (éolithique final valasian). The younger parts of the site are associated with the Bell Beaker horizon, including a cemetery with the remains of about 90 individuals (Dolmen M XII).
References
- Die Schweiz vom Paläolithikum bis zum frühen Mittelalter. Vom Neandertaler bis zu Karl dem Grossen. Band 2: Werner E. Stöckli u. a. (Hrsg.): Neolithikum. Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-908006-51-1.
- Harrison R., Heyd V., "The transformation of Europe in the third millennium BC: The example of 'Le Petit Chasseur I & III' (Sion, Valais, Switzerland)", Prähistorische Zeitschrift 82 (2007), 129–214.
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