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<< Our Photo Pages >> Sion Steinkistengrab - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Switzerland in Wallis

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sion Steinkistengrab
Country: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 18.744 km away from the location you searched for.

Canton: Wallis Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Sion  Nearest Village: Sion
Latitude: 46.232200N  Longitude: 7.351010E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Megalithic89 visited on 25th Nov 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5

aolson visited on 21st Aug 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Pretty much as expected - a pleasant park with this dolmen, a stone row, and two cists.

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Sion Steinkistengrab
Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by Charmot : 12/10/2008 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Dolmen discovered in 1960s and now within its own glass pavilion. No Capstone.

Positional co-ordinates scaled from a map source, west off Sion town centre, south of Rue du Petit Chasseuer, short distance from crossroads with Rue des Amendiers.
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Sion Steinkistengrab
Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by Flickr : Stelen der Dolmen von Petit-Chasseur im archäologischen Museum in Sion / Sitten im Kanton Wallis in der Schweiz Site in Switzerland In Sion / Sitten im Kanton Wallis in der Schweiz . . x . . ****************************************************************************************************************** ***********************************************************************... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sion Steinkistengrab
Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by neolithique02 : Menhir-Statue with anthropomorphic decoration of Sion-Petit Chasseur Site in Switzerland (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sion Steinkistengrab
Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by neolithique02 : Menhir-Statues with anthropomorphic decoration of Sion-Petit Chasseur (image of the local museum) Site in Switzerland (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sion Steinkistengrab
Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by neolithique02 : Menhir-Statue with anthropomorphic decoration of Sion-Petit Chasseur Site in Switzerland (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sion Steinkistengrab
Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by Megalithic89 : "Petit-Chasseur 18" Male stela with flexed arms, patterned garment, belt pouch, dagger, bow and arrow. Marble. 2,500 – 2,200 BC. Switzerland, Canton of Valais, Sion. Photo taken at The National Museum, Zurich, November 2021, during their exhibition: Humans. Carved in Stone. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Sion Steinkistengrab
Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by Megalithic89 : Petit Chasseur 1, Sion, Switzerland. Human-shaped stela with solar representation in place of a head and ornamented cloak. Marble. 2`500 - 2`200 BC. Loan of Musée d'histoire du Valais, Sion. Photo taken November 2021 at this exhibition: Humans. Carved in stone. Exhibition at the National Museum Zurich. More details at the bottom of the Swiss National Museum main page. Upload with perm...

Sion Steinkistengrab
Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by Flickr : XXXX Reise durch die Schweiz : Stele der Dolmen von Petit-Chasseur im archäologischen Museum in Sion / Sitten im Kanton Wallis in der Schweiz Site in Switzerland In Sion / Sitten im Kanton Wallis in der Schweiz . . x . . ****************************************************************************************************************** *****************************************...

Sion Steinkistengrab
Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by Flickr : Stele der Dolmen von Petit-Chasseur im archäologischen Museum in Sion / Sitten im Kanton Wallis in der Schweiz Site in Switzerland In Sion / Sitten im Kanton Wallis in der Schweiz . . x . . ****************************************************************************************************************** ************************************************************************...

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Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by neolithique02 : Drawing the Sion-Petit Chasseur Neolithic site Site in Switzerland

Sion Steinkistengrab
Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by Charmot : 12/10/2008

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Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by Charmot (2 comments)

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Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by Charmot

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Sion Steinkistengrab submitted by Charmot

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Sion Steinkistengrab by Megalithic89 on Thursday, 11 February 2021
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This short description gives an overview, I took it from the Swiss Inventory of Archaeological Stones website (http://www.ssdi.ch):

28 engraved anthropomorphic stelae and stelae fragments found in a necropolis with 5 dolmens (MI, MII, MV, MVI, MXI) and 6 stone cist graves (MIII, MIV, MVII, MVIII, MIX, MX) partly reused. The engravings are partly superimposed, i. e. engraved over existing drawings. The necropolis was used from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (3200 to 1800 BC) and was subsequently covered.

Here is the link to their report, written in German, illustrated with professional photos: SSDI Object No 1950.04

Note to editor: Perhaps you could add the alternative name: Petit Chasseur.
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Prehistoric Ceremonial Warfare: Beginning of Institutionalized Violence by Jan Turek by aolson on Sunday, 13 January 2019
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Note to editor

Could you mark this site in canton Valais / Wallis?
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Prehistoric Ceremonial Warfare: Beginning of Institutionalized Violence by Jan Turek by Andy B on Tuesday, 02 January 2018
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This paper talks about Neolithic and Beaker Warfare and includes this site: Warrior stelae with bow and arrow from Petit-Chasseur, Sion (canton Val-lais), Switzerland

Prehistoric Ceremonial Warfare: Beginning of Institutionalized Violence by Jan Turek

Sadly, aggression is still one of the most common features of human behaviour; it is an instinct to promote and survive our own genes against the genes of others. Human aggression has gradually become part of human culture over the last 40,000 years and has been institutionalized in various forms of social activities. Particularly in the post-glacial period, the level of social relations has developed dramatically in the context of population growth and the growth of human communities.

In the time of Neolithic and Chalcolithic European agricultural populations, the motive of control over farming land became highly important. Also the control of main means of production and social power was increasingly maintaining the intra-group competition and aggression. Thus, violence was employed within the community in order to obtain and maintain individual or collective social status, but also against other communities in an effort to protect property and territory.

Particularly the intra-community aggression was soon transformed into variety of different formal ways of symbolic fighting, which usually did not lead to the unwanted death of a defeated member of the community.
The symbolic struggle between members of the community as well as the defence against external aggression were gradually formalized in the form of introduction of specialized weapons designed for combat between people and creation of fortifications. During the Neolithic period a new phenomenon arose in human culture: warfare.

https://www.academia.edu/35308130/
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