(Course) The Neolithic Matriverse
The Neolithic Matriverse: From Sacred Mother Worlds to Contemporary Erasure (0.5 Credit)
Course No: 409
Instructor: Dr. Danica Anderson
Time: 8AM-10AM PT August 4-August 25 (Tuesdays, 2 hour-long 4 weekly sessions)
Description: This course examines the Neolithic Matriverse—maternal-centered cosmologies, social systems, and symbolic structures documented in the archaeological work of Marija Gimbutas, with emphasis on Joan Marler’s anthology honoring her work. The course traces how matriversal systems were dismantled through patriarchal conquest, militarization, religious domination, and economic extraction, and how these ruptures continue to shape contemporary violence against women, transgenerational trauma, chronic survival states, and collapsing birthrates. Using Kolo-Informed Trauma, the course integrates feminist archaeology, biopsychology, social epigenetics, and biosemiotics.
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