Gimbutas, Marija, 1921-1994
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Bronze age cultures in central and eastern EuropeBook 1965
- Summary
- Marija Gimbutas 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. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Female [1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Born
- 1921-01-23 [2][6]
- Birth Place
- Vilnius [2][6]
- Died
- 1994-02-02 [2][6]
- Death Place
- Los Angeles, Calif. [2]
- Los Angeles [6]
- Country
- Lithuania [2]
- United States [2]
- Language
- Lithuanian [3][5]
- English [5]
- Occupation
- Arheoloģe [5]
- anthropologist [6]
- archaeologist [6]
- prehistorian [6]
- university teacher [6]
- historian [6]
- ethnologist [6]
- Employer
- Vytautas Magnus University [6]
- Harvard University [6]
- University of California, Los Angeles [6]
- Field of Activity
- Arheoloģija [5]
- Educated at
- Vytautas Magnus University [6]
- Vilnius University [6]
- Country of Education
- Lithuania [6]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [6]
- Oxford Reference
- Overview [6]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. National Library of Latvia
- 6. Wikidata
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