The end of the Neolithic in Western Switzerland: peopling dynamics through nonmetric dental study

Conférence Chapitre d'actes The end of the Neolithic in Western Switzerland: peopling dynamics through nonmetric dental study eng 2012 author Desideri Jocelyne 0000-0003-1372-7420 89942 author Piguet Martine 0000-0002-2386-8203 28707 author Furestier Robin Henri 648698 author Cattin Florence 635067 author Besse Marie 0000-0002-4752-9070 28306 81-115 978-90-8890-084-6 http://www.sidestone.com/library/background-to-beakers Entity at the end of the European Neolithic, the Bell Beaker phenomenon, although difficult to define and explain as a whole, has benefited from diverse and varied interpretations. Such difficulties are due to its broad geographic distribution and complex cultural components. For several years now, research in the Laboratory of Prehistoric Archaeology and Peopling History at the University of Geneva has focused on research at the scale of this phenomenon. Through four complementary axes of research (typology and chronology of common ware pottery, territorial occupation, copper metallurgy and dental anthropology), the objective is to identify the modes of transition governing the transition from the Final Neolithic to the Bell Beaker. Emphasis is placed in this contribution not only on one of the research axes - dental anthropology -, but also on a region in which the expression of the Bell Beaker is all the more interesting for the varieties of its components: Western Switzerland. The objective was to determine, by the analysis of nonmetric dental traits, whether the emergence of the Bell Beaker coincided or not with population renewal. Finally, the results provided by dental morphology are discussed and compared with other components, primarily cultural, in order to propose a scenario for settlement in Swiss territory at the end of the Neolithic. Peopling history Western Switzerland Neolithic Bell Beaker dental nonmetrics préhistoire archéologie bioanthropologie Dewey 550 Leiden Sidestone Press 41 Département F.-A. Forel des sciences de l'environnement et de l'eau 153 false 754 Laboratory of Prehistoric Archeology and Anthropology Background to Beakers: inquiries into regional cultural backgrounds of the Bell Beakers complex Fokkens, H. & Nicolis, F. Sptember 2010 The Hague 2fc6c924-7efc-4e34-96ee-841d0905ca6a Proceedings chapter Restricted Desideri&al_2012.pdf 3960397 application/pdf restrictedAccess Faculté des sciences / Section des sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement / Département F.-A. Forel des sciences de l'environnement et de l'eau

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