"Early in her career, Gimbutas had been deeply sceptical of the original theory of mounted nomads from the Pontic Steppes spreading Indo-European languages into Europe, leaving kurgan burial mounds as their signature, but towards the end of it, she cast her initial methodological caution to the wind and turned a male gratification fantasy about mounted Übermenschen on its head to produce a feminist fantasy in which nasty, brutish nomads from the Steppes had destroyed the peaceful, matriarchal, earth goddess worshipping Neolithic cultures of the Balkans."
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Wheels, Languages and Bullshit (Or How Not To Do Linguistic Archaeology) Jonathan Sherman Morris. Philology, vol. 3/2017, pp. 57–108
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Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas (January 23, 1921 – February 2, 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.
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