![]() Gimbutas gained fame - and notoriety - with her last three books: The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe (1974) The Language of the Goddess(1989), which inspired an exhibition in Wiesbaden, 1993/94 and her final book, The Civilization of the Goddess (1991), which based on her documented archeological findings presented an overview of her conclusions about Neolithic cultures across Europe: housing patterns, social structure, art, religion, and the nature of literacy. “ Archaeo-mythology” indeed yet, culture is the set of stories we tell ourselves. ![]() Filled with diagrams of artifacts and patterns found in Neolithic sites all over Europe, Gimbutas asserts that these clues point to a matrifocal society that worshipped a great mother goddess, and which initially developed the arts of pottery, weaving and agriculture - an Old Europe that believed in earth deities. ![]() A couple of years ago, I came across the ideas and writings of archaeologist and former professor emeritus of archaeology at UCLA Marija Gimbutas in a heavy tome that I chanced upon in one of my used bookstore haunts ( The Language of the Goddess). ![]()
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