From: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Date: June 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

GIMBUTAS, MARIJA. The living goddesses; edited and supplemented by Miriam Robbins Dexter. xx, 286 pp., illus., bibliogr. Berkeley, London: Univ. of California Press, 1999. $35.00

This book represents the last work, published posthumously, of the California-based archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, who died in 1994. It has been completed and edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter, a colleague -- but not an archaeologist -- in the University of California.

Gimbutas is famous for her works on the prehistoric Mother Goddess. Outside archaeology, she is venerated by many people in the ...