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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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