Bringing a feminist perspective to contemporary findings of geneticists and archeologists, Professor Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, PhD and feminist cultural historian, points out that the oldest veneration we know is of a dark mother of central and south Africa, whose signs–ochre red and the pubic V–were taken by African migrants after 50,000 BCE to caves and cliffs of all continents. Her book Dark Mother has been translated into many languages. She is working on yet another book at 93 and is an inspiration to us all.
