Diosas y dioses de la Vieja Europa (7000-3500 a.C)

In this reference work, now a classic, Professor Marija Gimbutas gathered the archaeological sources that allowed her to speak of a matrifocal and probably matrilineal, agricultural and sedentary culture in Old Europe (7000-3500 BC), in the southeastern area of the continent, that is, in the pre-Indo-European culture, in sharp contrast to the decidedly patriarchal, pastoral, nomadic and warrior proto-Indo-European culture, which prevailed throughout Europe in the course of three waves of infiltration since the Russian steppe, between the years 4500 and 2500 a. The study of mythical images, their signs and symbols, shows a persistence of the cult of the goddess, showing the supremacy of aspects such as the power to generate life and that of fertility.