About the Book
The Bell Beaker Culture in All its Forms contains the proceedings of the 22nd meeting of the ‘Archéologie et Gobelets’ Association which took place in Geneva, Switzerland in January 2021. The book is structured in three parts: Archaeological Material demonstrates how ceramics, lithics, wrist guards, and metal artifacts contribute to our understanding of the Bell Beaker Culture. Funerary Archaeology and Anthropology considers how the particular context of death and the human skeleton can be employed to gain information on Bell Beaker populations. The final section, Reconstructing Bell Beaker Society, builds upon archaeological evidence to discuss site interpretations as well as the wide-reaching topics of ritual, culture, and symbolism. With the publication of these proceedings, it is hoped that the conference interactions can facilitate future research and discussions on Bell Beaker societies and their roles within Neolithic Europe and beyond.
Table of Contents:
Foreword – Marie Besse ;
In Memory of Daniela Kern – Andrew Fitzpatrick ;
In Memory of Alain Gallay – Marie Besse ;
1. Archaeological Material ;
Bell Beaker and Epi-Bell Beaker in the Florentine Area: Metallurgical and Pottery Evidence from the Site of Fosso Di Lumino (Florence, Italy) – Chiara De Marco, Pasquino Pallecchi and Lucia Sarti ;
Bell Beaker Lithic Assemblages in the Florentine Area: Revisions, New Studies and Updates – Isabella Matera and Lucia Sarti ;
Bell Beaker Lithic Industry Between France and Italy: New Insights from Lombardy and Languedoc – Isabella Matera, Robin Furestier and Domenico Lo Vetro ;
Pottery Chaînes Opératoires as a Tool to Approach the Integration of the Bell Beaker Phenomenon: The ‘Petit-Chasseur’ Necropolis as a Case Study – Eve Derenne, Delia Carloni and Marie Besse ;
The Bell Beaker and Early Bronze Age Decorated Ware from the Preventive Excavations at 35 Auguste Isaac Street (Lyon 9e, Rhône, France) – Pierre-Jérôme Rey and Jean-Michel Treffort ;
Degrees of Investment in Bell Beaker Ceramics from North-West France – Quentin Favrel ;
A Bipartite Network Analysis of Bell Beaker Decoration Diversity in Camino De Las Yeseras (Madrid, Spain) – Agnès Caraglio, Patricia Ríos and Corina Liesau ;
Chalcolithic Bell Beaker Pottery from a Habitational Context at the El Portalón De Cueva Mayor Site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) – Amalia Pérez-Romero, Marta Francés-Negro, Eneko Iriarte, María Á. Galindo-Pellicena, Rebeca García, Laura Rodríguez, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Alfonso Alday and José M. Carretero ;
Stone Bracers in Continental Western Europe. New Insights from Bell Beaker and Early Bronze Age Contexts – Julien Vitani and Maxence Bailly ;
2. Funerary Archaeology and Anthropology ;
St-Martin-de-Corléans (Aosta, Italy) Tomb TII: The Chronological and Cultural Sequence – Philippe Curdy, Angela Maria Ferroni, Giovanna Pizziolo, Raffaella Poggiani Keller, Lucia Sarti, Marco Baioni, Domenico Lo Vetro and Simona Marongiu ;
The Bell Beaker Phenomenon in the Southern Upper Rhine Valley. A Presentation of Old and New Excavated Graves of the South Baden Group in Germany – Katalin Puster ;
Health and Diseases in Commingled Remains from Final Neolithic and Bell Beaker Populations: The Site of Petit-Chasseur, Sion, Valais, Switzerland – Claudine Abegg ;
Examining the Role of Bell Beaker Archery through Techno-Functional and Osteological Analyses: Reinvestigating the Hoštice-I Cemetery (Czech Republic) – Jessica Ryan-Despraz and Clément Nicolas ;
3. Reconstructing Bell Beaker Society ;
Mind the Gap: Bell Beaker Presence in Copper Age Campania, Southern Italy – Paola Aurino and Maria De Falco ;
On the Edge of the Swamp. Absorption and Transformation of the Bell Beaker Phenomenon in the Later Copper Age Settlement of Poggioreale (Naples - Italy) – Giuliana Boenzi and Viviana Germana Mancusi ;
Torre Crognola (Northern Latium, Italy): A Large Settlement with Bell Beaker Findings – Pasquale Miranda, Giovanni Carboni, Vincenzo d’Ercole, Marco Pacciarelli and Massimo Pennacchioni ;
Environmental and Economic Assets of the Bell Beaker Culture in the Florentine Plain (Italy). New Data from Fosso di Lumino – Matteo Penco and Lucia Sarti ;
The Bell Beaker Rock Sanctuary Pigloner Kopf (South Tyrol, Italy): Burnt Offerings and Local Metallurgy in the Eastern Alps – Annaluisa Pedrotti, Ivana Angelini, Gilberto Artioli, Caterina Canovaro, Umberto Tecchiati and Hanns Oberrauch ;
Beakers, Death and Monuments in the Ceremonial Landscape Around the Czech Mythical Mountain of Říp – Jan Turek and Petr Krištuf ;
Commensality Through a Solar Cult. Ceramics, Social Practices and Symbolism Along the Atlantic Coast (2500-1650 BC) – Julien Ripoche and Théophane Nicolas ;
Author Biographies
About the Author :
Claudine Abegg specialises in Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology. Her PhD work pertained to the establishment of the health profile of the Neolithic populations of Western Switzerland by analysing bone lesions to identify trends in the state of health in these societies. Currently, she works in both forensic and archaeological contexts, and her work focuses on interpreting skeletal pathologies with new methodologies to better understand how they affected, and still affect, human societies.
Delia Carloni is currently a PhD candidate at the Laboratory of prehistoric archaeology and anthropology at the University of Geneva. Specialising in pottery compositional analysis, her research focuses on raw material selection and procurement from prehistoric contexts.
Florian Cousseau’s research focuses on the megalithism of Western Europe. His PhD dissertation, carried out in Western France, received international attention, winning the dissertation prize of the UISPP. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher and leads a major European excavation on the cairn of Goasseac’h in Brittany, France.
Eve Derenne holds a Doctorate of Science in prehistoric archaeology from the University of Geneva. Her research focuses on the evolution of social and cultural practices during the Neolithic and the Bronze Ages, particularly relating to the emergence, diffusion, and local integration processes of large-scale cultural phenomena such as the Bell Beaker complex.
Jessica Ryan-Despraz is a postdoctoral assistant at the University of Geneva. She holds an MSc in prehistoric archaeology and anthropology and a Doctorate of Science in prehistoric archaeology. She specialises in biological anthropology, with a focus on human biomechanics and its influences on skeletal morphology.
