The most important researcher of the Goddess Civilizations was archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994). Gimbutas, of Lithuanian origin, was a professor at Harvard and was considered the greatest expert on the prehistory of Eastern Europe. A turning point in her career was an independent excavation she [...]

With the beginning of agriculture and the emergence of the Goddess Culture civilizations, a new kind of cosmic religion developed, centered on the Great Mother and associated with the "riddle of vegetation." In addition, the concept of the cosmic tree, which connects the planes of [...]

The period of transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is called the shift from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic. In both periods, humans primarily used stone tools, hence the suffix -lithic (Lithos – stone), and so the Agricultural Revolution is also called the Neolithic [...]