On Raising Human Babies This scene is indicative of the imaginary—persistent in many of us—about how early humans lived. A dramatic image that evokes danger and male heroism. And it coincides with the dominant ideas in the West about the division of labor and the nuclear family that prevailed in the 60s,…
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In the podcast “Home to Her”, dedicated to the Sacred Feminine, host Liz Kelly meets authors, artists, teachers, poets and mystics, with whom she has long conversations on the themes of Female Spirituality. The podcast site contains a series of very interesting interviews. We particularly highlight the latest recent episode in which she is…
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In January of the coming year we will celebrate the centenary of the birth of Marija Gimbutas, who was not only a gifted archaeologist but a Master of Thought, who questioned the basis of the concept of Civilization, as expressed by Western culture. We will report initiatives and projects as we become aware of them, with…
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by Alessandra de Nardis We report the article by the French journalist Clara Hage of 25 September 2020 published in NEON, an information magazine. It is a topic that we know well and with even more in-depth references but we believe it is important to note that in France, a nation that saw the birth of the study of Prehistory and thanks…
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We report an interesting article published by the Center for GeoGenetics of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in 2017 which brings further confirmation to the theories of the great Lithuanian archaeologist and linguist Marija Gimbutas. How bands of young steppe migrants were civilized by Stone Age agricultural women. Close encounters….
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by Manuela Candini Manuela Candini, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna and Crona, sends us these not too well-known images of a small treasure from Campania, the Matres Matutae, a name freely translatable into "Mothers of the returning light" and venerated as protectors of women giving birth. Their main feature is…
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by Alessandra De Nardis During an excavation campaign in northern France, in the prehistoric site of Renancourt, in Amiens at the confluence of the Selle and Somme valleys, a team from the National Research Institute of Preventive Archeology brought to light a figurine from unmistakable style that immediately caused it to be renamed…
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