ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the aspects of the Mother Goddess as an archetype and explores that the Minoan's scientific observations are based on information from as far back as the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras. To help foster reflexive process, Ian Hodder invited a team of filmmakers and film students from Karlsruhe in Germany to make daily videos of the archaeologists as they tried to explain what they were doing and what preliminary interpretations they were coming up with at the trowel's edge. By the time she was fifteen years old, Shahina Farid who by then was spending much of her spare time wandering around the British Museum on her own had decided that she wanted to be an archaeologist. Shahina's efforts were rewarded with her first glimpse of atalhyk's celebrated art work: the plaster wall of one 'shrine' bore red painting depicting an abstract trellis like pattern and a motif that looked like a rosette or a sunburst.
