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,…

Nel podcast “Home to Her”, dedicato al Sacro Femminile, la conduttrice Liz Kelly incontra autrici, artiste, insegnanti, poetesse e mistiche, con le quali ha lunghe conversazioni sui temi della Spiritualità Femminile. Nel sito-podcast sono raccolte una serie di interviste molto interessanti. Segnaliamo in particolare l’ultimo recente episodio in cui è…

A gennaio dell’anno che verrà si celebrerà il centenario della nascita diMarija Gimbutas,che non è stata solo una dotata archeologa ma una Maestra di Pensiero,che ha interrogato le basi del concetto di Civiltà, così come declinatodalla cultura occidentale. Segnaleremo man mano che ne verremo a conoscenza iniziative e progetti, con…

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…

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….

by Manuela Candini Manuela Candini, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna and Crona, sends us these not too well-known images of a small treasure from Campania, the Matres Matutae, a name freely translatable into "Mothers of the returning light" and venerated as protectors of women giving birth. Their main feature is…

by Alessandra De Nardis During an excavation campaign in northern France, in the prehistoric site of Renancourt, in Amiens at the confluence of the Selle and Somme valleys, a team from the National Research Institute of Preventive Archeology brought to light a figurine from unmistakable style that immediately caused it to be renamed…