The recent death of Andrew Colin Renfrew, one of the great archaeologists of the last and present century, reopens the debate on the origin of the Indo-Europeans; his name is in fact linked to the Anatolian hypothesis as the original homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, a theory opposed to the Kurganic theory of Marija Gimbutas, according to which the Proto-Indo-Europeans would be…
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Introduction by Luciana Percovich It will take more than thirty years for my theses to be recognized, Marija Gimbutas repeated a few years before her death. Aware of the extent of her vision and her foreignness – not only geographically but culturally in a WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) world, which…
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by Joan MarlerTaken from Joan Marler – From the Realm of the Ancestors. An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas – Knowledge, Ideas and Trends Inc. – 1997 The wide variety of voices collected in this volume represents a tribute to the extraordinary depth and depth of the research carried out by Marija Gimbutas….
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by Luciana Percovich The New Yorker of December 14, 2020, in the Annals of Science column, publishes an article that attempts a synthesis of the results of population genetic studies within a project to map the human species, its movements and interbreeding over the course of of millennia. Douglas' article…
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David: What is at the origin of your interest in the archeology and mythological dimensions of the Goddess of Ancient European religions[1]? Marija: I think this has had to do with my whole life. I have always been a black sheep. I did what I saw with my own eyes – until…
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