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Although some reactionary reviewers would like the general public to believe that the late Marija Gimbutas, Ph.D. was a beyond-the-fringe scholar, one only has to look at the list of illustrious scholars who chose to write for the earlier Anthology celebrating her life's work to see that such a view Leggi tutto

Unlike many books containing the word "Goddess" in their title, this book is not at all esoteric, but rather a scholarly archeological study. Vital in understanding that spiritual symbols existed many tens of thousands of years before the bible was written. I am fully in favour of exploring and appl Leggi tutto

An enlightening look at pre Indo-European (called Old European) cultures and the myths and symbolism that underlies much of today's religious, cultural and mythological belief systems, based on archeological finds.

Readable, and interesting. I don't know much about Neolithic cultures, and this also provided a more nuanced introduction into them as well. Gimbutas's work is controversial (not everyone agrees with her interpretations of the archeological evidence she describes), but her arguments here are fairly

Gimbutas is my new favorite archaeologist meets folklorist. I could read her all day.

Over the past year, I read some books on the late paleolithic and early neolithic periods, e.g., about Magdalenian cave art and the excavations of Çatalhöyük and Göbekli Tepe. Marija Gimbutas’ name came up. Following an approach she calls archaeomythology, Gimbutas postulates a late paleolithic and n Leggi tutto