Neolithic Europe
Old Europe is a term of Prehistory and Early History and linguistic research that identifies the Europe before the immigration of Indo-European tribes adopted.
Concept
The term is represented, inter alia, in the 19th century by linguists. The theory of pre-Indo- Ancient Europe depends on the assumption that the spread of the Indo-European language goes hand in hand with a physical migration of a new population. Therefore European cultures are referred to as " alteuropäisch " before the Indo-Europeans. Archaeological evidence for the spread of Indo-European proto-language during the Neolithic were provided, among others, the Anatolia hypothesis of Colin Renfrew. Marija Gimbutas participated in an Indo-European immigration in the Jung-/Endneolithikum. With the theory of pre-Indo- Old Europe in the context is the theory of vaskonischen language. However, not all the people listed below belong to a common language family.
To be distinguished from the old Europe - term M. Gimbutas ' is the term of the old European Hydronymie, which refers to waters names that are Indo-European according to some researchers, however, in the opinion of other researchers vorindoeuropäisch.
Among the pre-Indo- or pre-Indo peoples of Old Europe are ( partly Anatolian origin)
- The Basques,
- The Etruscans,
- The Pelasgians,
- The Leleges,
- The Iberians,
- The Ligurians,
- Rhaetians,
- The Sikanen,
- The Elimi,
- The Minoans,
- Finno -Ugric peoples,
- The Lusitanians ( questionable )
- The Bell Beaker culture,
- The Linear Pottery culture,
- The Vinča culture
And others.
Hence, they are considered to be older than the Celtic tribes, were assimilated by this but for the most part, before they were again Romanized language of the Italians primarily. Others, like the Pelasgians and Leleges were allegedly assimilated by Greek tribes or made , such as the Basques until today as a linguistic unit continues.
Gimbutas ' matrilineal conception of Old Europe
→ Main article Kurgan hypothesis
The term Old Europe was used by the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas for archaeological cultures of the Neolithic in Central Europe. According to M. Gimbutas Old Europe was organized peaceful and matrilineal, in essence immigration of the Indo-Europeans. The socially uniform Neolithic Old Europe have extends from central Europe through the Danube to the Mediterranean and Anatolia. M. Gimbutas still believed that during the Neolithic the biology of reproduction was unknown. The underlying thesis of the worship of a " Great Goddess " - having regard to multiple discoveries of Venusfigurinen in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age in the Balkans - is with her both a religious history and event history design. Svend Hansen indicates precursor of this concept, which had already been formulated in detail especially at the Eranos Conference in 1938. An overview of critical contributions to this concept of a " feminist utopia " and the contemporary historical projections was presented in 1995 by Lynn Meskell.
Against an exclusively peaceful ancient Europe speak, for example, evidence of massacres at the end of the Linear Pottery around 5000 BC, as the massacre of Talheim in Baden- Württemberg. A similar and simultaneous finding is of Schletz before ( Asparn Zaya ) in Lower Austria.