The Kurgan Culture and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe: Selected Articles Form 1952 to 1993 (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph) - Softcover

Marija Gimbutas

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9780941694568: The Kurgan Culture and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe: Selected Articles Form 1952 to 1993 (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph)

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Publisher: Institute for the Study of Man, 1997

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Fifteen articles, 30 Maps, 102 Figures and 40 Tables make up this essential collection of papers by the famed Lithuanian-born Harvard and UCLA archaeologist, Marija Gimbutas. In the introduction Dr. Gimbutas describes her forty-year commitment to establishing the origins of Indo-European speech and seminal culture, which she named the Kurgan Culture after the distinctive burial mounds.

This unique collation showcases Gimbutas' epoch-making contributions to Indo-European studies and the archaeology of Europe. First is her comprehensive evidence that the geographical "homeland" of Indo-European was neither Central Europe nor Anatolia, but the steppelands of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. She details the westward migration of a warlike, horse-riding, pastoral, patriarchal peoples, beginning in the mid-4th millennium, bringing with them early I-E speech and a pantheon of sky-gods. Her presentation, originally based only on archaeology and carbon-14 dating, has since been proven by DNA analysis of skeletal remains. Secondly, these papers offer her extensive and colorful account of the earlier agricultural, matriarchal civilization of what she called "Old Europe" which the warlike patriarchal invaders overran. Gimbutas particularly highlights the striking contrast between the culture of the earlier population's chthonic goddess religion and that of the Indo-European conquerors' male sky-gods ‒ a clarification which made her become something of a heroine amongst history-oriented feminists.

Dr. Gimbutas was the prime founder and co-editor of The Journal of Indo-European Studies. Today the journal is edited by another pre-eminent Indo-Europeanist, James Mallory, one of her former star doctoral students himself.

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About the Author:

Professor Marija Gimbutas
PROFESSIONAL:
1973-74 - Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences
1966 - Curator of Old World Archaeology, Cultural History Museum, U.C.L.A.
1964-89 - Professor of European Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
1962-63 - Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1961-62 - Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California
1955-63 - Research Fellow of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
EDITORIAL BOARDS: 1964 - Member of the Board, Metmenys, Chicago
1973 - Archaeology Editor, The Journal of Indo-European Studies
1976 - Associate Editor, Monumenta Archaeologica, Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
1979 - Member of the Board, Ponto-Baltica, Florence
1980 - Member of the Board, Comparative Civilizations Journal, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
1981 - Contributing Member, The Quarterly Review of Archaeology, Williamstown, Massachusetts
SELECTED ENGLISH LANGUAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"Ancient Symbolism in Lithuanian Folk Art ". American Folklore Society, Memoir Series, Vol. 49, Philadelphia, 1958. 169 pp. with 157 illus.
"The Balts". Ancient Peoples and Places, vol. 33. Thames and Hudson: New York: Praeger, London:1963. 286 pp. 79 pls., 47 text figures, 11 maps.
Bronze Age Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. The Hague: Mouton, 1965. 681 pp., 115 pls., 462 text illus., index.
"The Slavs". Ancient Peoples and Places, vol. 74., London: Thames and Hudson; New York and Washington, D.C.: Praeger., 240 pp., 75 pls., 48 text illus., 15 maps.
Neolithic Macedonia 6500-5000 B.C. (editor) 1976, Los Angeles: Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. Monumenta Archaeologica I. 470 pp., 47 pls., 60 color frames, 250 text illus., 52 tables.
"The Transformation of European and Anatolian Cultures 4500-2500 B.C. and Its Legacy". Part I: The Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 8, 1-2: Part II: The Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 8, 3-4: Part III: The Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 9. 1-2. 1980-1980. (Editor)
The Goddess and Gods of Old Europe, 6500-3500 B.C., London: Thames and Hudson. Berkeley-Los Angeles: . . .
The Language of the Goddess: Sacred Images and Symbols of Old Europe. Introduction by Joseph Campbell. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989. c. 500 pp., 500 illustrations (with c. 2000 objects illus.).
The Civilization of the Goddess - the World of Old Europe. Edited by Joan Marler. HarperSanFrancisco.1991.
The Living Goddesses. Edited and supplemented by Miriam Robbins Dexter. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1999.
FESTSCHRIFTS
Proto-Indo-European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem. Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas. Edited by Susan Nacev
Skomal and Edgar C. Polome. Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man. 1987.
From the Realm of the Ancestors: An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas. Edited by Joan Marler. Manchester, CT.:
Knowledge, Ideas & Trends, Inc. 1997.Varia on the Indo-European Past: Papers in Memory of Marija Gimbutas. Edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Edgar C. Polome. Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No. 19. Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man. 1997.

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