by Joan MarlerTaken from Joan Marler – From the Realm of the Ancestors. An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas – Knowledge, Ideas and Trends Inc. – 1997 The wide variety of voices collected in this volume represents a tribute to the extraordinary depth and depth of the research carried out by Marija Gimbutas….
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by Luciana Percovich The New Yorker of December 14, 2020, in the Annals of Science column, publishes an article that attempts a synthesis of the results of population genetic studies within a project to map the human species, its movements and interbreeding over the course of of millennia. Douglas' article…
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by Laura Violet Rimola In the Civic Archaeological Museum of Sesto Calende, right in the center of the main hall, a rich funerary equipment dating back to the 1977th century BC is exhibited, occasionally discovered in March XNUMX in the Mulini Bellaria area in Sesto Calende, a few steps from the banks of the Ticino. The Ticino River…
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by Maria Laura Leone Writing about Grotta dei Cervi in Porto Badisco in Salento is stimulating and arduous. The artistic complexity and the anthropological phenomenon that characterize it involve science, philosophy and neurology at the same time. It is a singular place and dealing with it, as with my excursus linked to it,…
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by Maria Laura Leone During the works for the reopening to the public of the Pulo di Molfetta (Bari), in 2020, two engraved pebbles emerged whose interest falls within the sphere of prehistoric art (source). The meaning of art, as we understand it today, is far from what we attribute to mass…
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by Alessandra de Nardis Prehistory is certainly an inexhaustible place of questions that are unlikely to ever find answers. When we try to reconstruct our origins, intuition remains perhaps the only useful faculty since it draws on the deepest and most recondite ancestral memories. Despite the scarcity of artifacts created by our…
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by Giusi Di Crescenzo The Grotta del Colle in Rapino, in the province of Chieti, on the eastern slope of the Maiella, is certainly one of the most evocative archaeological sites of the Abruzzo Mother Mountain and also a clear example of how the ancient history of the sacred is the history of places of nature that…
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From: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – GODDESS MYTH – Origins: Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 A long time ago, perhaps 20.000 years or more, the image of a goddess appeared in a vast territory extending from the Pyrenees to Lake Baikal in…
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The Goddess as bird From: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS – The origins: the Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 The bird that emerges from a distant sky has always been a messenger of wonder, the visible embodiment of invisible world. In many myths…
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The cave, womb of the Mother Goddess From: Anne Baring and Jules Cashford – THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS – The origins: the Paleolithic Mother Goddess – Venexia – October 2017 A little over a hundred years ago, no one suspected that there was human life, at the a time when woolly mammoths grazed…
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