The Neolithic Great Goddess: a Study in Modern Tradition
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v1i2.22Abstract
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 and our own day.References
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1958. The prehistory of European society. Harmondsworth: Penguin
DAMES, M. 1976. The Silbury treasure: the Great Goddess rediscovered. London: Thames & Hudson.
1977. The Avebury cycle. London: Thames & Hudson.
EVANS, SIR A. 1895. Cretan pictographs and pre-Phoenician script. London: Quaritch.
1901. The Neolithic settlement at Knossos and its place in the history of early Aegean culture. Man 1: 184-86.
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GIMBUTAS, M. 1974 The gods and goddesses of Old Europe. London: Thames & Hudson.
1989. The language of the goddess.
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HARRISON, J.E. 1903. Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion. Cambridge UP.
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HAWKES, C.F.C. 1940. The prehistoric foundations of Europe. London: Methuen.
HAWKES, J. 1938. The significance of Channelled Ware in Neolithic western Europe, Archaeological Journal 14: 126-73.
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1951. A land. London: Cresset.
1954a. A guide to the prehistoric and Roman monuments of England and Wales. London: Chatto and Windus.
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JUNG, C. 1959. Collected works 9(1): The archetypes and the collective unconscious. London: Routledge.
MASSINGHAM, H.J. 1932. World without end. London: Cobden-Sanderson.
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MELLAART, J. 1967. Catal Hüyük. London: Thames & Hudson.
MERCHANT, C. 1980. The death of nature. San Francisco: Harper Row.
NEUMANN, E. 1963. The Great Mother: an analysis of the archetype. Princeton UP.
NOBLE, V. 1989. Marija Gimbutas: reclaiming the Great Goddess, Snake Power 1: 5-7.
PIGGOTT, S. 1949. British prehistory. Oxford UP.
1965. Ancient Europe. Edinburgh UP.
1986. Ancient British craftsmen, Antiquity 60: 189-92.
REUTHER, R. 1975. New woman, new Earth. New York: Seabury.
UCKO, P. 1962. The interpretation of prehistoric anthropomorphic figurines, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 92: 38-54.
1968. Anthropomorphic figurines of Predynastic Egypt and Neolithic Crete with comparative material from the prehistoric Near East and mainland Greece. London: Royal Anthropological Institute. Occasional Paper 24.
VARNDELL, G. 1991. The ritual objects, in Ian Longworth et al., Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk 1972-1976: Fascicule 3. London: British Museum.
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1997-08-01
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Hutton, R. (1997). The Neolithic Great Goddess: a Study in Modern Tradition. Pomegranate, 2(Autumn), 22-35. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v1i2.22
