Mary Settegast

Mary Settegast is a contemporary American scholar and author who specializes in the Neolithic Age.

The accomplished but reclusive Settegast earned graduate degrees from both the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. She has received critical praise for her books Plato Prehistorian, Mona Lisa's Moustache, and When Zarathustra Spoke. As their titles indicate, Settegast's first and third books focus on human prehistory; her special interest is on the co-evolution of religion and agriculture. In a different vein, Mona Lisa's Moustache deals with contemporary cultural and intellectual issues.

Bibliography (books)

• Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5000 B.C. in Myth and Archaeology, Cambridge, MA, Rotenberg Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0961733315
• Mona Lisa's Moustache: Making Sense of a Dissolving World, Grand Rapids, MI, Phanes Press, 2001. ISBN 978-1890482916
• When Zarathustra Spoke: The Reformation of Neolithic Culture and Religion, Costa Mesa, CA, Mazda Publishers, 2005. ISBN 978-1568591841

External links

• A photograph and brief biographical note.