Yeah, it’s political in origin, and anachronistic. Not to mention kinda dopey. :’) The nice part is, the number of such titles is definitely in decline; that kind of screed (okay, now I’ve used that term twice in a half hour, geez) is now channelled into Bush-hatred, America-hatred, pro-Moslem, pro-fake-diversity, pro-fake-revolution, etc. And of course the sociologists and anthropologists who had been pushing that all died because Bush and Rove and Cheney increased funding for giving women breast cancer.
I couldn’t agree more: so much of science is politically motivated, even and especially “maintstream” scientists like the ones who insist, at the top of their lungs desperately, that the great early Egyptian pyramids are nothing but tombs, despite the fact that no evidence has been found of burials in any of the pyramids except two smaller, later, less grand ones.
That picture of the hideous old lady is NOT Gimbutas.
Gimbutas’ work, based on finding tens of thousands of drawings and figurines that show continuity from around 30,000 BC through 3500 BC, is the most thorough, well-documented archeology around. There is no doubt in the mind of anyone who actually reads her work that ancient people worshiped goddesses, as well as male fertility figures( to a lesser extent).
You will not find a single scholar to ever claim the existence of a “matriarchy”. There is no evidence for a female-ruled society. However, in every culture in the world there is evidence for an egalitarian, matrilineal (claiming descent and inhertiance through the mother) social structure, before 8000 BC (in the Middle East) or 3500 BC (in central europe and turkey) or 1500 BC (in some parts of the Mediterreanean and the British Isles, matrilineal egalitarian societies persisted despite all the attempts to smash and conquer them).
It is the utter fantasy of much of mainstream science, that ignores the facts in order to congratulation itself that it is the pinnacle of human evolution, that brutal, male-dominated regimes have existed forever. In reality, it is a recent phenonmenon in human history, which goes back at least 200,000 years.