ARCHAEOLOGIST

Marija Gimbutas

1921 - 1994

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Marija Gimbutas (Lithuanian: Marija Birutė Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė, pronounced ['ɡʲɪmbutas]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marija Gimbutas is the 11th most popular archaeologist, the 26th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Archaeologist.

Marija Gimbutas is most famous for her theory that the Indo-Europeans were a matriarchal society.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Marija Gimbutas ranks 11 out of 151. Before her are Edward Drinker Cope, Arthur Evans, Den, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Colin Renfrew, and Semerkhet. After her are Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Nynetjer, V. Gordon Childe, Isdal Woman, George Smith, and Aurel Stein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Marija Gimbutas ranks 43. Before her are Lana Turner, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Amin al-Hafiz, Satyajit Ray, Deborah Kerr, and Jane Russell. After her are Vasily Stalin, Jean-Marie Balestre, Alida Valli, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Georges Brassens, and Kenneth Arrow. Among people deceased in 1994, Marija Gimbutas ranks 37. Before her are Roland Ratzenberger, Niels Kaj Jerne, George Peppard, Telly Savalas, Guy Debord, and Bassel al-Assad. After her are Andrés Escobar, Pierre Boulle, Vladimir Ivashko, Witold Lutosławski, Henry Mancini, and Gian Maria Volonté.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Marija Gimbutas ranks 26 out of 328. Before her are Pyotr Wrangel (1878), Jascha Heifetz (1901), Barbara Radziwiłł (1520), Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875), Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799), and Aaron Klug (1926). After her are Algirdas Brazauskas (1932), Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Hacı I Giray (1397), Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), and Gitanas Nausėda (1964).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Lithuania

Among archaeologists born in Lithuania, Marija Gimbutas ranks 1. 

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