Because grandmothers hold the key to human evolution
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,…
Prehistory in Ukraine
by Alessandra de Nardis This invitation to read is not a book but a short article published by the Florentine museum of prehistory on 26 February 2022; talks to us about prehistory, about the Tripolye Culture which takes its name from the Ukrainian village in the governorate of Kiev, a particular production of figurative, indicative art…
NEW OLD EUROPE: international conference in Vilnius in honor of Marija Gimbutas.
We are pleased to announce the program of the international scientific conference that will be held in Vilnius this Thursday and Friday 23-24 September in honor of Marija Gimbutas. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marija Gimbutas, the eleventh International Conference “THE NEW…
The Legacy of Marija Gimbutas: Interview with Joan Marler
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…
A great Symposium to celebrate the Centenary of the birth of Marija Gimbutas: 16-18 July 2021
UNESCO recognizes Marija Gimbutas as one of the prominent figures to whom public international recognition should be given for the merits obtained in the field of knowledge and the cultural development of humanity, and has included the date of her birth among its commemorations for 2021. The pioneering archaeological research of Gimbutas, which…
The dead speak. Word of a geneticist
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…
Centenary of the birth of Marija Gimbutas: 23 January 1921
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…
A necklace of deer teeth from 16.000 years ago
by Alessandra de Nardis Some time ago an article by Dr. Izzy Wisher, researcher at the Archeology department of Durham University in the United Kingdom, appeared on the web's popularization channels. The article deals with an interesting find that occurred in Saint-Germain-La-Rivière in southwestern France where a burial was found…
Prehistoric men were also women
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…
Marjia Gimbutas: further confirmation of her theories
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….