Marija Gimbutas ~ A Visionary’s Legacy

Harald Haarmann and Joan Marler

Abstract

January 23, 2021 marked the one hundredth birthday of the Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994). In celebration of her centennial year, this article acknowledges the gifts of her life-long scholarship and discusses some of the ways her interdisciplinary research on the civilization of Old Europe challenges outdated assumptions about early civilizations while inspiring new scholarship now and into the future.