Matricultural Wisdom at the Beginning of Europe

The archaeology of Old Europe has restored the memory of a civilization in balance, holding in the centre the Wisdom of the Mothers. The architecture of houses, of villages and of burials tell us about a peaceful civilization attuned with the natural rythms of life and death. In the reconstruction of the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) we now see how for some millennia, with an apex between 6500 and 3500 B.C., Europe was the cradle of a complex and refined civilization, living in large settlements that don’t show any trace of wars or of social or gender inequalities, devoting to arts and developing an articulated system of symbols and writing. Comparing these data with the contemporary matriarchal societies, we may speculate that great many if not all peoples on the Earth developed and passed through a matriarchal phase, which evolved following times and forms proper to each different culture in the various continents. We can therefore infer that it is necessary not only to revise the current historical chronology but to question the epistemological presuppositions regarding what can be defined as “civilization”; today it is seen to begin with the wars of Olympian gods and heroes.