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Jul 27, 2014
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ancient female statuettes from around the world

Reaching into archaic times for the long view of human culture, we are presented with deep continuities across space and time. Striking commonalities recur in the symbols and ritual artifacts of diverse neolithic cultures. These international patterns are not limited to the 6th millennium BCE, but also appear in more recent indigenous societies in the Americas, Africa, and certain parts of Asia. Once we break out of a fixation on “the West” and its claimed antecedents, a much more varied chronological picture appears.

Icons of the matrix

Megalithic Women, and the Matrikas

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