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[]Hi, I found a site which might be really good for you dylan. here it is.

You also have to right a sizable annotation about what is on the source. Nico Dylan, since you don't have that much to do, can you do the timeline?

NICO Here is my part of the presentation outline First I will introduce the sicians, and say that they are the most original sicilians. I will connect sicily to malta and introduce the temples Introduce the egalitarian article And then introduce the chalice and the blade. Then I will counterweight all of the information with the critique article.

DYLAN Ok, so first I will talk about ancient Sicilian history and the indiginous people as an overview and discuss how their life was with a relatively blank culture I will move on to talking about the very first primitive invadors and the impact they had on the sicilian culture I will discuss and connect all the major and most prominant invaders in sicily that had the biggest impact on culture I will also discuss the less-well known invaders, and also cover the timeline and overview of the history.

I'm not completely done, but here is the first part of my part, next comes all the info on the temples. Now I'm done.

The oldest people with a defined culture, dates back to around 3600 BCE. These are the Temples of Malta. There is a significant lack of archeological evidence so nothing is definite, and everything is open to interpretation. Malta is an island off of Sicily, and is connected to the tribe, the Sicanians. As was said earlier, all evidence is completely open to interpretation. Every theory is heavily weighted with controversy. This can hamper an archeological career, and makes finding the facts difficult. But we do know certain things. The sicanians are apparently the oldest tribe. However, they resided in their own portion, the middle of sicily, and may as well have been just as old as the other tribes, just older in that one geographical area. Over time the culture has been influenced by other traders or invaders. The people of sicily often merged with the other cultures that invaded, this started happening around 600 BCE. So to study the actual sicanian culture, would require studying archeological remains from about 800 BCE, before the merging. Then the only truly reliable literary sources come from greek poets who weren't very reliable themselves. And the ones that were reliable, weren't because they may have had biases towards sicanian culture. So to get a really good evidence, the study of archeological remains in the sicanian area that date back before the merging is needed. And that evidence is very scarce. This causes all conclusions to be strongly based on theories that might easily be disregarded (Salerno, Vincenzo)

There is one main scientist that received a lot of discredit, Marija Gimbutas. Marija was an archeologist at Malta, an island that is just off the coast of sicily. The reason it was popular was because it had neolithic temples that dated back to around 3000 to 3600 BCE, before the merging period. Much of her work was ignored because people refused to believe her ideas. She thought that the temples had belonged to a society where matriarchy ruled. Many people thought it was only possible for there to be //only// patriarchy or //only//matriarchy. The other archeologists in this field of research thought there always had to be a dominating race. This view Marija was suggesting, came into play with a book written on the findings of her research, which will be covered later. However, there is quite a lot of evidence to support Marija's theories. Most of it lies near the society that used the temples and in the temples. In the tombs, males and females were treated equally in terms of how they were buried. Also, having the head removed after death and put somewhere else was a sign of high social status. The place where the separated heads were found had an equal amount of male heads as female heads. In both of these examples, males and females had an equal right to something. When she went to give her lecture she was insulted so much that she left without giving her paper (Eneix,Linda) The insults came before she gave the paper. Many people have also criticized her for various things, such as "She amasses all the data and then leaps to conclusions without any intervening argument," a comment from Doctor Wailes (Sheaffer, Robert) Marija Gimubutas died of cancer in 1994.

Another woman, Riane Eisler, supported Marija Gimbutas theories, and was interested in her work. She had studied her work and wrote a book on it. This book was called The Chalice and the Blade. The title refers to the two types of religion. The chalice was feminine peaceful religion, whereas the blade was more violent societies that came in to being after the chalice types. She is also controversial because she used Gimbutas's work, who was a controversial person. What she explains in her book, is that the ultimate society is not a dominator one (where one sex dominates the other) but a partnership one. She provides proof for this in early society structures. The tools found with neolithic archeological sites, she believes were not used for killing, "prey was small and defenseless and could be caught and killed with the hands." She believes that females created them so they could mash up food. Also, to support this theory, she says that women would be the most likely to develop tools. The reason being because women have children, and would require more the need of tools because they needed to hold the child, and use the tool to mash up food. In the tablets of Sumer, there are stories of the gifts of civilization being given and given to women. This proves that women were a part of society and were just as important as men were because women apparently started agriculture as we know it today. But one might say, that was of the old civilizations, now we've moved on and become more violent and better. But Riane Eisler once again finds proof that later isn't always better. She says to look at the wars and famines we've had, they are later on, are they better? She also quotes Hesiod, a greek poet. Hesiod says there were three races (there were more, but they followed the same degradation, but with the fifth race being a little better than before) gold, silver, and bronze. He describes as each was replaced the races became more and more terrible and worse than the earlier race. "The all-lamented sinful works of Ares were their chief care." "they ate no grain, but hearts of flint were theirs, unyielding and un-conquered." (Eisler, Riane) is how Hesiod describes their horribleness and degradation from the golden race. This simply proves that later is not better, and that evolution may not be what we think it is.

After the neolithic period and pre-merging point, 800 BCE, things clear up and there is more evidence to support theories. Before the merging point, all reliable poets and writers came from other countries, therefore making them unreliable because the writers would have biases that carry into their writings. But at the merging point this stopped being a problem. This was so because the foreign cultures, and their writers merged with Sicily. Now they biases are either carried into the society, making them irrelevant because now they are having the same effect. Or they go away because the writers now can see past their biases because their cultures merged and now they see what the Sicilian culture really is and can get rid of biases that came from not knowing the culture. So now there is written reliable history that can be used to dispel any doubts that archeologists had. At least some of them. With the new written history things become more clear and theories do not have to rest on hypothetical conclusions based on what little evidence there is (Salerno Vincenzo)

//The Chalice And The Blade//. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. Print ||
 * < Eisler, Riane. "CHAPTER 5 - MEMORIES OF A LOST AGE: THE LEGACY OF THE GODDESS."

//the past//. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. . ||
 * < Eneix, Linda. "Of Temples and Goddesses in Malta." //POPULAR ARCHEOLOGY exploring//

//Kraemer//. Christine Hoff Kraemer, n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2011. . ||
 * < Kraemer, Christine Hoff. "Review: The Chalice and the Blade." //Christine Hoff//

Best of Sicily, n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. . ||
 * < Salerno, Vincenzo. "Sicilian Peoples: The Sicanians." //Best of Sicily MAGAZINE//.

Claims." //The Debunker's Domain//. Robert Sheaffer, Aug. 1999. Web. 20 Oct. 2011. . ||
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//Carnaval//. Carnaval, n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2011. . ||
 * < "3600 BC Ggantija Temples on Gozo Millennium before The Pyramids or Stonehenge."