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Marija Gimbutas’s The Living Goddesses

This text, published posthumously (four years after Gimbutas’ death), is the culmination of decades of research into the “civilization of the goddess,” in the author’s own words. A Lithuanian native, Gimbutas moved to the United States in the 1940s, and … Continue reading

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Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History: The Ancient Americas

When I offered to take my cousin to the Field Museum, showing off my new membership, and suggested that we see the permanent exhibition “The Ancient Americas,” she said, “What’s that?” “Indians,” I said, “from Day One.” She said later … Continue reading

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