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Prehistory in Italy
The Civilization of the Goddess in Italy
The preistoriainitalia.it site was born from the desire to continue Marija Gimbutas’ field research, focusing her gaze on our country which, stretched out in the center of the Mediterranean, has known all the passages of human groups which, in a constant movement between the continents, they brought with them their own knowledge, habits, symbols. Their traces have remained on the territories they have crossed or where they have stopped and in our ancestral and genetic memories.
Prehistory in Italy has as its primary objective the collection, conservation in a virtual place of easy access and free sharing of information currently available about artifacts, places, myths attributable to the layers of civilizations – peaceful and focused on feminine values of protection and care for life – which preceded the best known historical patriarchal cultures.
The civilization of the Great Mother or Great Goddess, or Mother Goddess took forms and created common symbols in different places and moments of a very extended period that goes from 35.000 BC to the late XNUMXst millennium BC, as far as the European continent is concerned. The numerous female statuettes, the so-called Goddesses or Venuses, are the best-known icon of this common cultural matrix.
