Marija Gimbutas: video documents
In this section of the site we collect video documents, some unpublished for the Italian public, concerning Marija Gimbutas; we will continue the research and collection of such documents also to commemorate the scholar who inspired this site and whose death falls thirtieth anniversary this year. Lithuanian Chronicle 1994…
Remembering Marija Gimbutas and the conference “Twenty years of studies on the Goddess” – Rome 2014
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…
NEW OLD EUROPE: international conference in Vilnius in honor of Marija Gimbutas.
We are pleased to announce the program of the international scientific conference that will be held in Vilnius this Thursday and Friday 23-24 September in honor of Marija Gimbutas. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marija Gimbutas, the eleventh International Conference “THE NEW…
The Legacy of Marija Gimbutas: Interview with Joan Marler
In the podcast “Home to Her”, dedicated to the Sacred Feminine, host Liz Kelly meets authors, artists, teachers, poets and mystics, with whom she has long conversations on the themes of Female Spirituality. The podcast site contains a series of very interesting interviews. We particularly highlight the latest recent episode in which she is…
A great Symposium to celebrate the Centenary of the birth of Marija Gimbutas: 16-18 July 2021
UNESCO recognizes Marija Gimbutas as one of the prominent figures to whom public international recognition should be given for the merits obtained in the field of knowledge and the cultural development of humanity, and has included the date of her birth among its commemorations for 2021. The pioneering archaeological research of Gimbutas, which…
On the Ridge of the World. A dialogue between Joan Marler and Vicki Noble
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….
The dead speak. Word of a geneticist
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…
Centenary of the birth of Marija Gimbutas: 23 January 1921
In January of the coming year we will celebrate the centenary of the birth of Marija Gimbutas, who was not only a gifted archaeologist but a Master of Thought, who questioned the basis of the concept of Civilization, as expressed by Western culture. We will report initiatives and projects as we become aware of them, with…
Marjia Gimbutas: further confirmation of her theories
We report an interesting article published by the Center for GeoGenetics of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in 2017 which brings further confirmation to the theories of the great Lithuanian archaeologist and linguist Marija Gimbutas. How bands of young steppe migrants were civilized by Stone Age agricultural women. Close encounters….
In Potenza the 1st anniversary of an important dedication to Marija Gimbutas
byTeri Volini…. that war has always existed…..The metaphor of war is widely used in the time of Covid-19, with a whole repertoire of similar words: fight, fight, attack, assault, annihilate, defeat, weapons, battle and similar. The automated choice of war terms is strange, but it doesn't have to be…