Petit-Chasseur dolmen

Petit-Chasseur in Sion

The dolmens of Petit-Chasseur are mainly located around the district Le Petit-Chasseur ( French: little hunter) of the village of Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland , where they occur in three variants. The dolmens were discovered from 1961. It dates back to 2900 to 2200 BC. Estimated.

The archaeological site of the Saône-Rhône culture is registered under KGS no. 7043 protected as a cultural monument with regional / cantonal importance (B object).

description

Dolmen M XII by Petit-Chasseur

The oldest systems, M VI and M XII, are relatively small and made of platy limestone . The dolmens are rectangular and above ground and have a lateral access. They have antenna-like vestibules and were framed by a long, triangular, low stone mound made of quarry stone , called a pedestal , which did not reach the top of the dolmen.

These so-called antendolms date from around 2400 BC. And no longer have a podium. The people of the Néolithique final valasian are considered to be their builders . The systems combine fund as standard with the Beaker people they nachnutzten and new dolmens or stone boxes built. Dolmen M XII contained the remains of at least 90 individuals.

Other monuments are the engraved stones in the alignment of Chemin des Collines . The megalithic complexes of Saint Martin de Corléans near Aosta can be an offshoot on Italian territory .

literature

Switzerland from the Paleolithic to the Early Middle Ages. From Neanderthals to Charlemagne. Volume 2: Werner E. Stöckli et al. (Ed.): Neolithic. Swiss Society for Prehistory and Protohistory, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-908006-51-1 .

Individual evidence

↑ B – Objects VS 2018 . Canton du Valais Inventaire PBC, Objets B, État: 1.1.2018 (pas de changements pour 2018) / Kanton Wallis KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (no changes compared to the previous year). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2017 (PDF; 357 kB, 11 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).