Marija Gimbutas

thumb|Marija Gimbutas (1993) Marija Gimbutas (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. Quotes Local evolution cannot account for such abrupt changes (…) The pottery is relatable to the earliest Neolithic in the Middle Urals and Soviet Central Asia. about the pottery of the Kurgan people M. Gimbutas: “Primary and Secondary Homeland”, JIES 1985, p.191, quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. We are still living under the sway of that aggressive male invasion and only beginning to discover our long alienation from our authentic European heritage—gylanic, nonviolent, earth-centered culture and its symbolic language, whose vestiges remain enmeshed in our own system of symbols. Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley. - In search of the cradle of civilization _ new light on ancient India-Quest Books (2011) About Early in her career, Gimbutas had been deeply sceptical of the original theory of mounted nomads from the Pontic Steppes spreading Indo-European languages into Europe, leaving kurgan burial mounds as their signature, but towards the end of it, she cast her initial methodological caution to the wind and turned a male gratification fantasy about mounted Übermenschen on its head to produce a feminist fantasy in which nasty, brutish nomads from the Steppes had destroyed the peaceful, matriarchal, earth goddess worshipping Neolithic cultures of the Balkans. Wheels, Languages and Bullshit (Or How Not To Do Linguistic Archaeology) Jonathan Sherman Morris. Philology, vol. 3/2017, pp. 57–108 External links Category:1921 births Category:1994 deaths Category:Women academics from Lithuania Category:Archaeologists from Lithuania Category:Anthropologists from Lithuania Category:Women scientists from Lithuania Category:Non-fiction authors Category:Women authors from Lithuania Category:Feminists Category:People from Vilna