Ruth Tringham | Old Europe: House, Fire, the Goddess, and Ambiguity

The Marija Gimbutas Memorial Lecture
Presented by Ruth Tringham, University of California Berkeley
Old Europe: House, Fire, the Goddess, and Ambiguity
Lecture begins at 7:46.
Marija Gimbutas has always held a special place in Ruth Tringham's life. A few times their paths crossed, but mostly like ships passing in the night. In this talk, Tringham focuses on an earlier pre-Indo-European Neolithic population located in southeast Europe and Anatolia, an area Marija Gimutas referred to as Old Europe, whose prehistoric culture believed in a nurturing "Goddess" in her various forms and manifestations. Join us as Tringham draws our attention to aspects of Old Europe that played only a small role in Marija Gimbutas's narrative-house, clay, fire, and the intimate view-while asking the question of how we feel about the level of certainty we attribute to these narratives based in archaeology.
This lecture is made possible by a generous donation by Dr. Audrius Plioplys.
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[@bealtainecottage]

Marija inspired me to come to a greater understanding of the significance of the Goddess in Irish culture. I am deeply indebted to her.

[@Leo_the_Creep]

Thank you for posting this lecture. It is genuinely nice of you and the OI that these lectures have not been paywalled. I've been looking forward to this 3rd Marija Gimbutas lecture for a while now, and I can't express the gratitude I have towards the OI and the manager of this channel here in general. Thank you again.

[@mattlyons6325]

Agree! A wonderful series of contributions to knowledge and intellectual curiosity.

[@TheRhinehart86]

Starts at 7:46

[@Nwmguy]

Thanks. I'm not sure why the algorithm hasn't put this comment at the top

[@DianaStevens42]

Thank you

[@petrapetrakoliou8979]

Marija Gimbutas was a great poet of European archaeology, which inspired other poets too. Even archaeologists can't totally ignore the beauty of her poetry.

[@lilaponi4444]

Ethnography isn't speculation as Ruth Tringham states. Marija Gimbutas describes a scientific method for analysis of poetry, art, language, myth etc. It is validated across culture, time, geography and correlated to current cultures at a similar development. Just because you can't do a double blind clinical trial doesn't mean it isn't science. It's not pure speculation if you know what you're doing like Gimbutas did.

[@patriciaoudart1508]

No, this can be only speculations, see my comment you will read my proper speculation , they are very advanced, but are only speculations too. Of course my point of view is totally different because my analysis take in count some new knowledge in Geology, Astronomy, facts from actual Earth captors, datation, satellites, archeological facts around the Earth, to understand how humans, who were like Us, lived those rising or dramatic times, or quieter periods.

[@ericmeinke6913]

Very interesting lecture. Cultural Evolution, Fire and “Old Europe” interesting perspective.

[@Namuchat]

Brilliant!

[@petrapetrakoliou8979]

It is extraordinary how Chapman can produce phrases in highly authoritative style devoid of any meaning.

[@vilnaukrana3891]

If you don't include Ukraine in the map of Old Europe territory, how can you use Ukrainian Nebelivka and Maidanets sites for the references of your research?

[@Ladoyar77]

It is very typical for the Western historical view - Ukraine is under shadow. We must have our own voice too.

[@BeforeWarTheBook]

It's because of attitudes like these that academia is becoming increasingly irrelevant to a public who is inclined to thank academics for their data-collecting but reach out own conclusions. Sure, if you never stick your head outside one discipline like archaeology and you have this delusion that it's more "scientific" to avoid making any kind of inference, you can say Gimbutas' conclusions were ambiguous. However, if you are a real human being with a brain, and examine the evidence from anthropology, history, linguistics, comparative religion, mythology, and now genetics, no reasonable person without some kind of bias can avoid coming to the same conclusions she did. And we need to do that. Otherwise academia is a useless exercise like this lecture, of droning on for an hour and saying nothing.

[@peterfireflylund]

It seems very much like she was 100% wrong about matriarchy and peaceful life. She was right about the the Indo-European homeland and the identity of the Indo-Europeans.

[@DushevnaSepsa]

Yugoslavia did neolith because there was no nationalism, same with rome, now most efforts are invested in middle ages and christian period.

[@hazelwray4184]

11:27 "red paint"? - it's a yellow ochre.

[@isaacbedard6849]

look at the red paint on it

[@pauladee6937]

I see gold too?????

[@nisaba5752]

These women did this for a lifelong career, don't you think that she's be more familiar with the object? She probably held it in her hands, looked at it under magnification. Those were poor photos of many of those objects, and that one in particular! Not only that, but it was only shown on screen briefly; it could've been *blue* paint for all we know!

[@Gesine01]

Who or what gives you the right to celebrate her?

[@sknmttn]

Shush

[@shadetreader]

It's really too bad that this lecture series is named after a fascist sympathiser.

[@petrapetrakoliou8979]

How can you call an archaeological methodology "feminist"?