Gimbutas at the Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden, Germany 1993
Born
Marija Birutė Alseikaitė
(1921-01-23)January 23, 1921
Vilnius, Central Lithuania
Died
February 2, 1994(1994-02-02) (aged 73)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality
Lithuanian
Other names
Lithuanian: Marija Gimbutienė
Alma mater
Vilnius University
Occupation
Archaeologist
Years active
1949–1991
Employer
University of California, Los Angeles
Known for
Kurgan hypothesis
Notable work
The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe (1974) The Language of the Goddess (1989) The Civilization of the Goddess (1991) The Balts (1961) The Slavs (1971)
Marija Gimbutas (Lithuanian: Marija Birutė Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė, pronounced['ɡɪmbutas]; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe.
MarijaGimbutas (Lithuanian: Marija Birutė Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė, pronounced ['ɡɪmbutas]; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist...
Annals of Science. Retrieved 13 February 2021. Gimbutas 1982, p. 1. Gimbutas 1997, p. 309. Gimbutas, Marija (1993-08-01). "The Indo-Europeanization of Europe:...
Montenegrin model Marija Dūdienė, Lithuanian painter MarijaGimbutas, Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gluvakov, Serbian pianist Marija Jovanović, Montenegrin...
have included Marion Woodman, Thomas Moore, Robert A. Johnson, and MarijaGimbutas. In 1996, Dr. Stephen Aizenstat was named Founding President and Gary...
seen as an intrusive cultural element by MarijaGimbutas. The practice of suttee, hypothesized by Gimbutas is also seen as a highly intrusive cultural...
The term Bird goddess was coined by MarijaGimbutas with relation to figurines attributed to the neolithic Vinca culture. These figurines show female...
and Latvian Vels 'god of the underworld' (as mentioned by scholar MarijaGimbutas) and, by extension, with some relation to Slavic Veles, deity of the...
population. According to the widely-accepted Kurgan hypothesis, of MarijaGimbutas, the people that produced the Yamnaya culture spoke a stage of the...
the Black Sea and the Caucasus and west of the Urals. Introduced by MarijaGimbutas in 1956, it combines kurgan archaeology with linguistics to locate...
manifestation was given a huge impetus in the work of MarijaGimbutas (1974, 1989, 1991). To reduce Gimbutas's argument to simplicity, she viewed early Neolithic...
MarijaGimbutas had a large part in constructing a late twentieth-century feminist myth of matriarchal prehistory. She questions whether Gimbutas's archaeological...
by scholars such as Johann Jakob Bachofen, Jane Ellen Harrison, and MarijaGimbutas, and later popularized by second-wave feminism. These scholars speculated...
the Seym river. This information is summarized and synthesized by MarijaGimbutas in The Balts (1963) to obtain a likely proto-Baltic homeland. Its borders...
Anthony 2007, p. 368, 380. Haak et al. 2015, p. 11, figure 4c. Gimbutas 1997. Gimbutas 1997, p. 240. Pereltsvaig, Asya; Lewis, Martin W. (2015). The Indo-European...
may descend from a Minoan palace goddess associated with birds and MarijaGimbutas claim to trace Athena's origins as an Old European bird and snake goddess...
archeological findings by the Indo-Europeanists J. P. Mallory and MarijaGimbutas and archeologists such as James Mellaart, Alexander Marshack, Andre...
1991, pp. 187–188. Potts 1982, pp. 26–28. Ogden 2008, p. 35. Gimbutas 2001, p. 25. Gimbutas 1989, "18.11 Burial of the Goddess's Mask (gorgoneion)", pp...
exemplary study of archetypal psychology." Several decades later, MarijaGimbutas in her 1989 book presented ancient evidence to support a widespread...
culture has been seen as a stage in the evolution of the Slavs, and MarijaGimbutas identified it as the proto-Slavic homeland. According to many pre-historians...
ancient Slavic religion include Vyacheslav Ivanov, Vladimir Toporov, MarijaGimbutas, Boris Rybakov, and Roman Jakobson, among others. Rybakov is noted...
along with authors such as Elizabeth Gould Davis, Riane Eisler and MarijaGimbutas. Some have related it as well to the work of authors Margaret Murray...
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