To: JimSEA
Gimbutas? I’m not sure she was involved in the dig, but she did author a book about this, championing the goddess angle. Catal Huyuk appears to have had a wide variety of different cults, or perhaps had basically secular art objects that have been interpreted (as so many prehistoric survivals have been) as cult objects. :’)
8 posted on
01/17/2008 9:44:02 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I think it is likely one of her students I am thinking of. She pushed the idea of a culture having goddesses into a matriarchal “perfect” neolithic society. A good example of ideology warping science.
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01/18/2008 8:32:20 AM PST by
JimSEA
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