She was the first to study the Addaura graffiti: the story of a brilliant and feminist archaeologist
by Maria Oliveri Tireless and passionate researcher, she studied the Addaura graffiti and saved the Salinas collection. Sicilian by adoption, she fought for women's rights. «Jole Marconi Bovio I remember her at an already mature age, at a «première» of the Teatro Massimo, very elegant in her long black lace dress, tiny, the…
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…
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…
Deer Cave: the testimony of Elettra Ingravallo
From Marzia Vaccari Serra's ALMAGULP website we highlight this article which represents an important testimony by Elettra Ingravallo, professor of Paleethnology at the University of Salento, who unfortunately passed away on 2 March 2020. Defined as "the intellectual of archaeology", she transmitted his passion for prehistory as a study of exchange between people and…
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…
Interview with Marija Gimbutas on Mother Goddess, Indo-Europeans, birth and development of patriarchy
David: Cosa c’è all’origine del vostro interesse per l’archeologia e le dimensioni mitologiche della Dea delle religioni dell’Antica Europa[1]?Marija: Credo che ciò abbia avuto a che fare con tutta la mia vita. Sono stata sempre una pecora nera. Ho fatto quello che ho visto con i miei occhi – fino…
Colin Renfrew in memory of Marija Gimbutas
Something is moving in the Academy among Archaeologists: Marija Gimbutas' most determined opponent, Colin Renfrew, now recognizes that she was right. We publish some passages from a letter by Joan MARLER in which she gives news of the changed attitude of Colin Renfrew, the archaeologist who fought hard against the kurgan hypothesis. He…