This book by renowned anthropologist Harald Haarmann illuminates
the acquisition of knowledge, and the meanings underlying forms of
knowledge, in a broad temporal scope, ranging from the Neolithic
through the modern era. Spiritual knowledge is at the heart of this
work, which views myth and religion encoded in Neolithic female
figurines and revived in the contemporary "primitive" artwork of
artists such as Constantin Brancusi and Henry Moore. Within such a
framework, this study employs the knowledge and insights of the
relatively new, and very important, interdisciplinary field of
archaeomythology, which ties together information from archaeology,
DNA studies, mythology, anthropology, classical studies, other
ancient language studies, and linguistics. This study does so with
a wealth of information in these fields, offering meaningful
resolutions to many questions regarding antiquity, and shedding
light upon several previously misunderstood phenomena, from the
true function of Stonehenge (that its purpose was not
astronomical), to the fact that there could not have been a mass
movement of agriculturalists from Anatolia to Europe (this is a
currently hotly contested issue), to important Eurasian religious
beliefs and mythological motifs (with an excellent discussion of
shamanism), to systems of writing (with a wonderful discourse upon
ancient writing systems), religious expression, and mythology of
the exceptionally significant cultures of Old Europe (Neolithic
southeastern Europe). The book further discourses upon the legacy
of this culture in Minoan and then Greek culture, Old European
(pre-Indo-European) lexical items (that is, substrate vocabulary)
in Greek, and finally the preservation of Neolithic spirituality in
Modern Art. With this interdisciplinary approach, the study
demonstrates that all of the subjects of this manuscript are
interconnected, in a powerful wholeness. Ancient knowledge, Ancient
know-how, Ancient reasoning is an unprecedented study that will
appeal across many disciplines, including archaeology, mythology,
anthropology, classical studies, ancient language studies, and
linguistics. The book also includes many images that will prove
helpful to the reader.
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