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• 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 Steffè) [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 funerary rituals, from the Middle Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (Hanna Kowalewska-Marszalek and Henri Duday) ; Cremation graves of the Bell Beaker Culture from the Netherlands: social, spatial and temporal aspects (Erik Drenth) ; III. Societies and Megaliths ; Megaliths of Easter Island (Nicolas Cauwe) ; Anthropology of the Megalith-Erecting Societies (Alain Testart)

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• 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 Steffè) [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 funerary rituals, from the Middle Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (Hanna Kowalewska-Marszalek and Henri Duday) ; Cremation graves of the Bell Beaker Culture from the Netherlands: social, spatial and temporal aspects (Erik Drenth) ; III. Societies and Megaliths ; Megaliths of Easter Island (Nicolas Cauwe) ; Anthropology of the Megalith-Erecting Societies (Alain Testart)

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• 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 Steffè) [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 funerary rituals, from the Middle Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (Hanna Kowalewska-Marszalek and Henri Duday) ; Cremation graves of the Bell Beaker Culture from the Netherlands: social, spatial and temporal aspects (Erik Drenth) ; III. Societies and Megaliths ; Megaliths of Easter Island (Nicolas Cauwe) ; Anthropology of the Megalith-Erecting Societies (Alain Testart)