Too many Right-Wingers have adopted Marija Gimbutas’ crazy feminist lies about Neolithic Europe, so here are some studies that debunk them. I’ll update this article as I find more studies.


“Compiling data from various sources, it becomes apparent that violence was endemic in Neolithic [northwestern] Europe, sometimes reaching levels of intergroup hostilities that ended in the utter destruction of entire communities. […] Increasing competition and inequality are key factors that fostered the emergence of larger-scale human conflict and warfare.”
— Source: Conflict, violence, and warfare among early farmers in Northwestern Europe (2023)

“The new evidence presented here for unequivocal lethal violence on a large scale is put into perspective for the Early Neolithic of Central Europe and, in conjunction with previous results, indicates that massacres of entire communities were not isolated occurrences but rather were frequent features of the last phases of the LBK. […] A new violence-related pattern was identified here: the intentional and systematic breaking of lower limbs. The abundance of the identified perimortem fractures clearly indicates torture and/or mutilation of the victims.”
— Source: The massacre mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten reveals new insights into collective violence in Early Neolithic Central Europe (2015)

“The scale and sophistication of megalithic architecture along the Atlantic seaboard, culminating in the great passage tomb complexes, is particularly impressive. […] the human expenditure required to erect the largest monuments has led some researchers to emphasize hierarchy, of which the most extreme case is a small elite marshalling the labour of the masses. Here we present evidence that a social stratum of this type was established during the Neolithic period in Ireland […] patrilineal royal families that are headed by god-kings”
— Source: A dynastic elite in monumental Neolithic society (2020)

“Here we report ancient DNA, strontium isotope and contextual data from more than 100 individuals […] dated to the western European Neolithic around 4850–4500 bc. We find that this burial community was genetically connected by two main pedigrees, spanning seven generations, that were patrilocal and patrilineal, with evidence for female exogamy. […] The differences between younger and older-age sex ratios suggest that older daughters, from around the age of 15, left to join new groups, again consistent with a female exogamic residential system.”
— Source: Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community (2023)