1997/03/01 by Ronald Hutton · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies #Historical and Archaeological Studies #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History #Veneration #History #Politics #Ancient history #Classics #Political science
paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x0008457x
openalex publication_date 1997/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Modern belief in the veneration of a single Great Goddess in the European Neolithic is often accompanied by the notion that those cultures of ‘Old Europe’ were woman-centred in society as well as religion. What is the long history which precedes these contemporary notions? What is the complex history of their political development? A chain runs from Classical times to Marija Gimbutas (Meskell 1995) and our own day.