The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe - OMNIKA

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Type: Book

ISBN: 9780062503688, 62503685

Page count: 529

Language: English

Published: 1991

Publisher: San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco

Author: Marija Alseikaitė Gimbutas

Presents evidence for the existence of an agrarian earth goddess- worshipping civilization in Old Europe that was destroyed by horse-riding, patriarchal, sky-god-worshipping warriors from the east. A panoramic survey of the Neolithic culture of Europe before the Indo-Europeans. With over 600 photographs, drawings, maps, and charts.

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Marija Alseikaitė Gimbutas

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Marija Alseikaitė Gimbutas was a Lithuanian-American archaeologist and anthropologist.

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