Where Has the Great Father Dissapeared? Contextuality, Interdisciplinarity and Prehistoric Matriarchy

Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of so called "initial matriarchy" theory in connection with interpretations of the meaning and function of early prehistoric figural art. Matriachal hypothesis still survives in academic texts dealing with Neolithic topics and significantly affects attempts to interpret spiritual and material phenomena of this period

Keywords

• Neolithic
• gender
• context
• figural art
• matriarchy
• interdisciplinarity