Le Petit-Chasseur

Le Petit Chasseur is the name of a megalithic site in Sion, Valais, Switzerland.

It is associated with the Saône-Rhône culture, part of the local late Chalcolithic 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).

[1] “This discovery is of prime importance to help us understand social rituals at the end of the Neolithic period (around 2,500BC) in central Europe,” was announced from the canton of Valais.

The largest of the stones assumed to be a male figure wearing geometrically decorated clothes with a sun-like motif around his face is about two tonnes.