There are NO depictions of arms or torture in the Cave Paintings. Widespread fighting and fortification building became a way of life from the Bronze Age up until now, but this is "not the case in the Paleolithic and Neolithic". Not only 600+ pictures of the artifacts, not only charts and timelines showing perspective and flows, but scaled drawings of structures and communities clarified by the extensive excavations.Ībundant irrefutable evidence that "civilization" flourished in Old Europe between 65 BC (and in Crete until 1450 BC), and this period was characterized by art, refinement, cleanliness, trade, and No War. She brings light to the very concept of "civilization". She combined excavation archeology with Linguistics and the study of Myth, coining the terms "archeomythology", "Old Europe" (gynocentric pre-androcratic communities), and "Kurgan". By developing a more penetrating but just as rigorous methodology, Gimbutas fills in the "story" of the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in European antiquity.
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