Ancient Goddesses,Myths and Realities?

I have been researching the snake imagery of Minoan culture through critical eyes of those,such as Haralampos Harissis, that find the snake room to be lacking in the ritual context usually held for this room, but instead present it to  be an apiarisitic room.

From this I have been delving further into the Goddess Myth, the idea of an Ancient Earth Mother has major issues, which I am keen to look into. I have been researching the varying figurines from Upper Palaeolithic through to Classical Roman times.

Some useful writers on the subject are: (and this list is by no means exhaustive)

Lynn Meskell

Joan Goodnick Westenholz

Miranda J. Green

For a foray into the evidence for and against the Goddess Myth, there is a fabulous collection of academic papers in Ancient Goddesses, edited by Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris. This really is a great place to start weighing the evidence on the subject.