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'Prehistoric religion' is a general term for the hypothetical religious belief system of prehistoric peoples.
There are no extant textual sources from the Neolithic era, the most recent available dating from the Bronze Age, and therefore all statements about any belief systems Neolithic societies may have entertained are glimpsed from archaeology.
The archaeologist Marija Gimbutas has notably put forward views which describe a matriarchal "Old Europe" set of societies dominated by goddess worship, in particular postulating a bird goddess and a bear goddess. Gimbutas considered the Bronze Age Minoan civilization a native continuation of Neolithic Europe, with the labrys and bull worship continuing symbols of matristic power. Gimbutas' views are popularly repeated in feminism, and were syncretized into Neopagan currents such as Wicca.
The early 'Bronze Age' Proto-Indo-European religion (itself reconstructed), and the attested early Semitic gods, are presumed continuations of certain traditions of the late Neolithic.
Hints to the religion of Bronze Age Europe include images of solar barges, frequent appearance of the Sun cross, deposits of bronze axes, and later sickles, so-called moon idols, the conical golden hats, the Nebra skydisk, and burial in tumuli, but also cremation as practised by the Urnfield culture.
★ Development of religion
★ Anthropology of religion
★ Sun worship
★ Moon worship
★ Fire worship
★ Bull worship
★ Bear worship
★ Horse sacrifice
★ Ancestor worship
★ sacral king
★ Religions of the ancient Near East
★ Circular ditches, Goseck circle
★ Henge, Stonehenge
★ Megalithic tomb, Tumulus
★ Urmonotheismus
★ Marija Gimbutas, ''The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe'' (1974)
★ Marija Gimbutas, ''The Language of the Goddess'', (1989)
★ Marija Gimbutas, ''The Civilization of the Goddess'' (1991)
| Contents |
| Neolithic |
| Bronze Age |
| Reconstructions |
| Archaeology |
| Bronze Age Europe |
| See also |
| Sources |
Neolithic
There are no extant textual sources from the Neolithic era, the most recent available dating from the Bronze Age, and therefore all statements about any belief systems Neolithic societies may have entertained are glimpsed from archaeology.
The archaeologist Marija Gimbutas has notably put forward views which describe a matriarchal "Old Europe" set of societies dominated by goddess worship, in particular postulating a bird goddess and a bear goddess. Gimbutas considered the Bronze Age Minoan civilization a native continuation of Neolithic Europe, with the labrys and bull worship continuing symbols of matristic power. Gimbutas' views are popularly repeated in feminism, and were syncretized into Neopagan currents such as Wicca.
Bronze Age
Reconstructions
The early 'Bronze Age' Proto-Indo-European religion (itself reconstructed), and the attested early Semitic gods, are presumed continuations of certain traditions of the late Neolithic.
Archaeology
Bronze Age Europe
Hints to the religion of Bronze Age Europe include images of solar barges, frequent appearance of the Sun cross, deposits of bronze axes, and later sickles, so-called moon idols, the conical golden hats, the Nebra skydisk, and burial in tumuli, but also cremation as practised by the Urnfield culture.
See also
★ Development of religion
★ Anthropology of religion
★ Sun worship
★ Moon worship
★ Fire worship
★ Bull worship
★ Bear worship
★ Horse sacrifice
★ Ancestor worship
★ sacral king
★ Religions of the ancient Near East
★ Circular ditches, Goseck circle
★ Henge, Stonehenge
★ Megalithic tomb, Tumulus
★ Urmonotheismus
Sources
★ Marija Gimbutas, ''The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe'' (1974)
★ Marija Gimbutas, ''The Language of the Goddess'', (1989)
★ Marija Gimbutas, ''The Civilization of the Goddess'' (1991)
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