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As Gimbutas extensively documents, there was in Greece and the Balkans an earlier civilization, which she calls the civilization of Old Europe. The first Indo-European invasions [by pastoralists from the arid steppes of the northeast she calls the Kurgans] foreshadow the end of a matrifocal, matrilineal, peaceful agrarian era. Like fingerprints in the archeological record, we see evidence of wave after wave of barbarian invaders from the barren fringes of the globe. It is they who bring with them their angry gods of thunder and war and who everywhere leave destruction and devastation in their wake. At this point, the archeological landscape shows dramatic evidence of a radical social and cultural shift.