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. Ian Hodder was born in Bristol, England, on November 23, 1948. He was the product of a post-war love affair between his father, a British soldier who had been seriously wounded in Italy and had spent time in a German prisoner of war camp, and his mother, who was from Glasgow. Ian spent thousands of hours feeding thousands of punch cards into Cambridge University's mainframe computers, which obligingly spit out the data he used to compile charts and maps showing the detailed distribution of Roman coins, Roman pottery, and Bronze Age axes. James Mellaart's primary aim, at atalhyk and at Hacilar, was to prove that Anatolia had been center stage in the sweep of cultural and technological changes that accompanied the Neolithic Revolution.
