Episode 37 - Lady Statues and Prehistoric Matriarchy
Kick off Women's History Month with a show all about some of the earliest representations of women in art! Anna introduces us to the Venus of Willendorf and her curvy comrades, and shares a research study with very modern take on ancient art. Meanwhile Amber bursts our bubble about the matriarchy and goddess religions in Old Europe, and discusses goddess worshippers of past and present at Çatalhöyük in present-day Turkey. Or, as Amber would insist we call it this month, Her-key.
To learn (and watch!) more about this week’s topic, check out:
The Time of the Willendorf Figurines and New Results of Palaeolithic Research in Lower Austria (Anthropologie)
The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (via Google Books)
Venus Figurines of the European Paleolithic: Symbols of Fertility or Attractiveness? (Journal of Anthropology)
Das Mutterrecht (auf Deutsch via Archive.org, English translation WorldCat entry here)
The Marija Gimbutas Collection (Opus Archives and Research Center)
The World of the Goddess - Marija Gimbutas (Youtube)
The Myth of the Mother-Goddess (World Archaeology)
Goddesses, Gimbutas and New Age archaeology (Antiquity)
Catal-huyuk: A Neolithic Town (via Archive.org)
Archaeologists and Goddess Feminists at Çatalhöyük: An Experiment in Multivocality (Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion)
Photo credit: Don Hitchcock, Willendorf Venus 1468, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.