The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future---Updated With a New EpilogueNow with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevent book. "May be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes." – LA Weekly The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows that warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible—and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting dramas of what happened in our past. |
Contents
| 1 | |
The World of the Goddess | 16 |
Crete | 29 |
From the Chalice | 42 |
The Legacy of the Goddess | 59 |
Part H | 90 |
Part I | 104 |
Part II | 120 |
Notes | 215 |
Major Sites of Paleolithic Cave Art in Western Europe | 253 |
Andre LeroiGourhans Chronology of Paleolithic Cave Art | 254 |
James Mellaarts Chronology for Hacilar and Catal Huyuk | 255 |
The Near East Showing Epipaleolithic and Neolithic Excavation Sites 256257 | 257 |
Approximate Area for Early Civilization of Old Europe | 258 |
Kurgan Wave One | 259 |
Marija Gimbutass Chronology of the Flowering and Destruction of Old European Culture 260261 | 260 |
Gylany and History | 135 |
The Unfinished Transformation | 156 |
A Dominator Future | 172 |
Toward a Partnership | 185 |
Epilogue | 205 |
Comparison of Old European and Kurgan Cultures | 261 |
Chronological Comparison of Crete with Other Ancient Civilizations 262263 | 262 |
Principal Sites of Minoan Crete | 264 |
Index | 265 |
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