Remotely nestled in the Sahara Desert of southern Algeria lies the Tassili-n-Ajjer Plateau, once the home of a partnership-based, Goddess-worshipping people. In Food Of The Gods (1992, Bantam), McKenna asserts this civilization to be parallel to that of Biblical Eden, the fruit of the tree of knowledge no less than psilocybin mushrooms.
McKenna cites Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, a Harvard fellow whose research (and radical viewpoints) concern Neolithic and Bronze Age civilizations, who wrote:
The term Old Europe is applied to a pre-Indo-European culture of Europe, a culture matrifocal and probably matrilinear, agricultural and sedentary, egalitarian and peaceful. It contrasted sharply with the ensuing proto-Indo-European culture which was patriarchal, stratified, pastoral, mobile, and war-oriented, superimposed on all Europe.
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