Return of the Goddess with Marija Gimbutas

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Almost single-handedly, through her excavations and discovery of artifacts and remnants from European cultures predating both Egyptian and Greek civilization, the late Marija Gimbutas revamped both history and the field of archaeology. Here she speaks about the thousands of Goddess-related figurines she unearthed, pointing to the existence of peaceful European cultures that existed for millennia prior to 1500 B.C.E. The many faces of the Goddess emerge, giving voice to her life-giving and Earth-restoring energies down through the centuries. (hosted by Michael Toms)

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Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) 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. She served as Professor of European Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Curator of Old World Archaeology at what is now the Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Books by Marija Gimbutas include:

The Living Goddesses (editor Miriam Robbins Dexter) (University of California Press 1981)
The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images, (University of California Press 1982)
The Language of the Goddess (coauthor Joseph Campbell) (Harper & Row 1989)

To learn more about the work of Marija Gimbutas go to www.opusarchives.org/marija-gimbutas-collection

Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 11/8/1989 Program Number: 2163