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    Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:24:10 EST
    Subject: Old Europe
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    Dear friends,
    ever since Secretary Rumsfeld called the anti-war coalition a
    manifestation of "Old Europe" have I been trying to find out what
    this term actually stands for. Now I found the explanation - in a
    book by the late archeologist Manija Gimbutas, Professor of European
    Archeology at UCLA and curator of Old World Archeology at the UCLA
    Museum of Cultural History:

    "The term Old Europe is applied to a pre-Indo-European culture of
    Europe, a culture matricfocal and probably matrilinear, agricultural
    and sedentary, egalitarian and peaceful. It contrasted sharply with
    the ensuing proto-Indo-European culture which was patriarchal,
    stratified, pastoral, mobile, and war-oriented, superimposed on all
    Europe, except the southern and western fringes, in the course of
    three waves of infiltration from the Russian steppe, between 4500 and
    2500 BC."

    Mirija Gimbutas, The Goddesses And Gods Of Old Europe, University of
    California Press, 1974 (quoted from the new preface to the 1982
    edition)
    There exist good arguments to assume that much of the historic
    development of democracy until the present time is owed to the
    survival of Old European cultural values...

    Peter Krieg

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