![]() I use the term matristic simply to avoid the term matriarchy with the understanding that it incorporate matriliny. Rather, we find a structure in which the sexes are more or less on equal footing. We do not find in Old Europe, nor in all of the Old World, a system of autocratic rule by women with an equivalent suppression of men. The matriclan with collectivist principles continued. During the early agricultural period women reached the apex of their influence in farming, arts and crafts, and social functions. Since agriculture was developed by women, the Neolithic period created optimum conditions for the survival of matrilineal, endogamous systems inherited from Paleolithic times. `The earliest civilizations of the world-in China, Tibet, Egypt, the Near East, and Europe-were, in all probability, matristic Goddess civilizations. ![]() "Gimbutas wrote the following on the social structure of the civilization of Old Europe: ![]() Anatomy of a Backlash: Concerning the Work of Marija Gimbutas ![]()
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