[JimSEA]

Blam, do you recall the name of the radical feminist from UC involved in this dig? I was enough to call everything written into question for obvious political motivation. Gotta have goddesses you know.

[blam]

No, don’t recall.

[SunkenCiv]

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. :’)

[Grimmy]

The ancient Greeks had goddesses. Hard to call them a matriarchy just because of that, though.

Sometimes I wonder how much of archaeological interpretation is just fantasy and wish it were?