Saturday, March 11, 2023
Shift from women's spirituality to the blue print of a male mind
Neolithic
in Anatolia
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/neolithic-in-anatolia-f1a293d85ca6
I
just published Neolithic in Anatolia. It is more than surprising, it is
disquieting that so many archaeologists neglect language in their research. It
is even more shocking to see how much they neglect women and their essential
role in survival. The survival of the species, of the community, but also the
expansion of this species that will eventually conquer the whole planet, and
this essential role in survival had given them an essential place in the
spiritual dimension of this survival, at least up to the peak of the Ice Age,
and maybe even to the Madgalenian. But they will lose that spiritual position
in the Neolithic. How bizarre that archaeologists do not see how women held the
fate of humanity in their minds because they enabled the species to survive and
expand, provided three children were brought to a full 29-year-long life. 3
children per woman. How many pregnancies did it mean? Science is slowly
moving out of its pro-male sexism and it might finally see the light of
equality in differences instead of inequality in a homogenizing bias.
Ian
Hodder did a good job, and yet women are not considered, and children are
hardly mentioned except as neonates buried under the thresholds of houses and
rooms. How can we get out of this biased vision that centers the whole
discourse and the whole reality on the males only, often by not even mentioning
the sex of the people he is speaking of? Sexual prowess Ian Hodder likes so much
has only to do with men of course. What do you think?
Éditions
La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023
