Before War: Elisha Daeva

For this episode, we take a deeper dive into our pre-patriarchal origins and discuss our ancient matriarchal history. We’ve been made to believe that patriarchy and war are just the human condition—but what if history proves there was and is another way?

My guest for this conversation is Elisha Daeva: an interdisciplinary thinker, researcher, and author who has been researching social inequality for nearly thirty years. Her degree is in Human Biology from Stanford, a multidisciplinary combination of anthropology, psychology, and biology. After working for four years in neuroscience at UCLA, the politics and sexism drove her out of academia. Since then, she’s collected data across disciplines to interpret it for the public, reading every book, article, and paper she could find on the rise of dominance in the Bronze Age. She’s traveled the world, visiting matrilineal cultures and searching museums for clues to our ancient past. She shares her research, findings, and evidence about our Matriarchal Origins and the female roots of Western civilization in her book, Before War.

You can find out more and order her book at: https://beforewar.com/

Books mentioned in episode:

The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisle

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality by Angela Saini

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber

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