Claude Mordant, Chapter 32: The Bronze Age in France, in Anthony Harding e Harry Fokkens (a cura di), The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age, 2013, pp. 571-593, ISBN 978-0-19-957286-1.
«The Rhône culture, in its strictest sense, occupies the Franche-Comté, eastern Burgundy, the northern Alps close to the Swiss Plateau, and the Valais, but a wider definition of this entity could be said to cover the whole of the Rhône Valley, extending even beyond part of the Massif Central (Gallay 1996). The fact remains that certain types of metallurgy or particular characteristics of pottery thought of as ‘Rhodanian’ spread right across eastern and central France and the Rhône corridor. This highlights the significant impact of metal production, which used metal resources from the western Alps during the late part of the Early Bronze Age.»