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The Neolithic great goddess: a study in modern tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ronald Hutton
Ronald Hutton*
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Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, 13–15 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB, England
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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 (Meskell 1995) and our own day.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997 , pp. 91 - 99
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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