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An archaelogical mystery.
Author : Lyn Hamilton
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425162408
An archaelogical mystery.
Author : Lyn Hamilton
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9781927789100
Author : Marija Gimbutas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2001-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520229150
Presents evidence to support the author's woman-centered interpretation of prehistoric civilizations, considering the prehistoric goddesses, gods and religion, and discussing the living goddesses--deities which have continued to be venerated through the modern era.
Author : Anthony Bonanno
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9060322886
The papers in this volume derive from the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean (Malta, 1985). The field remains divided between the view supporting the existence of a universal belief in an all-pervading and all-embracing Mother Goddess of which the fertility cult is just one, albeit important, aspect and the view questioning the very bases of that theory. This conference showed that there seems to be a greater disposition for further dialogue. The fertility content in Near Eastern and Classical religions remains indisputable. The conference proved to be also, not accidentally, of special significance to Maltese archaeology. The volume is divided into four sections: Section I. Prehistory; Section II. Prehistory, Malta; Section III. Phoenician and Near Eastern Religions; Section IV. The Greco-Roman World.
Author : Patricia Monaghan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 973 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313354669
This collection of accessible essays relates the stories of individual goddesses from around the world, exploring their roles in the cultures from which they came, their histories and status today, and the controversies surrounding them. Goddesses in World Culture brings readers the fascinating stories of close to 100 of the world's goddesses, ranging from the immediately recognizable to the obscure. These figures, many of whom derive from ancient cultures and civilizations, serve as points of departure for examining questions that go well beyond the role of women in religion and spirituality to include social organization, environmental awareness, historical developments, and psychological archetypes. Each volume of this groundbreaking set is composed of 20–25 previously unpublished articles written by expert contributors from diverse disciplines. Volume one covers Asia and Africa, volume two covers the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe, and volume three covers Australia and the Americas. Goddesses from cultures often overlooked in texts on religion, such as those of the Australian Aborigines, Korea, Nepal, and the Caribbean, are included here. In addition, the work offers new translations of ancient texts, introduces little-known folklore, and suggests new approaches to contemporary religious practices.
Author : Daniel Cilia
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 9789990985085
Author : Claudia Sagona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1107006694
This book synthesizes the archaeology of the Maltese archipelago from the first human colonization c. 5000 BC through the Roman period (c. 400 AD). Claudia Sagona interprets the archaeological record to explain changing social and political structures, intriguing ritual practices, and cultural contact through several millennia.
Author : Lucy Goodison
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN :
The nurturing Earth Goddess, the Great Mother worshipped at the dawn of civilization—historical fact or consoling fiction? While Goddess mythologies proliferate and the public devours books by artists, psychotherapists, and enthusiastic amateurs, it is remarkable that those in the field of prehistory have remained largely silent. Did Goddess worship really exist? What actually remains from the earliest cultures, and what can it tell us? What can we learn about the early stages of human religion from the study of prehistoric carvings, pictures, pottery, figurines, and temples? In Ancient Goddesses, historians and archaeologists write accessibly about this intriguing and controversial topic for the first time. Considering a number of significant early civilizations—Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt; “Old Europe;” Early North West Europe; “Celtic” civilization; the Prehistoric Aegean; Malta; the Ancient Near East; Old Testament Israel; Çatalhöyük; and Archaic Greece—these experts review the most recent evidence so that readers can make up their own minds. Contributors include Ruth Tringham and Margaret Conkey, University of California, Berkeley; Lynn Meskell, New College, Oxford; Fekri Hassan, University College, London; Karel van der Toorn, University of Amsterdam; Joan Westenholz, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem; Elizabeth Shee Twohig, University College, Cork; Caroline Malone, New Hall, Cambridge; Mary Voyatzis, University of Arizona; and Miranda Green, University of Wales College.
Author : Davide Tanasi
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789694949
This collection of essays provides a reassessment of the multifaceted evidence which emerged from excavations carried out in 1909 and 1959 in the settlement of Bahrija, both largely unpublished until now. Bahrija is a key site for understanding the later stages of Maltese prehistory before the beginning of the Phoenician colonial period.
Author : Themistocles Zammit
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN :