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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Much of Marija Gimbutas’ work was grounded in her findings at the archaeological sites she excavated including Obre in Bosnia Anza in Mace- donia Sitagroi in northwestern Greece Achilleion in southern Thessaly (Greece) and Manfredonia in southern Italy. These excavations led directly to three edited volumes: Neolithic Macedonia (Gimbutas 1976) on her exca- vations at Anza; Excavations at Sitagroi I (Renfrew Gimbutas and Elster 1986) and Achilleion: A Neolithic Settlement in Thessaly Greece 6400-6500 BC (Gimbutas et al. 1989). Early in her career Marija Gimbutas identified the “Kurgan” culture. These Proto-Indo-Europeans were a patrilineal patrilocal pastoral and seminomadic group of peoples who she believed originated in the steppes of Russia. They were militaristic produced weapons and rode horses. Their religion centered upon male gods. Their agriculture was rudi- mentary although as they came into greater contact with Old Europeans they domesticated more plants and developed metallurgy. The ceramic art of these peoples was poorly developed. They buried their dead in pit graves covered with a cairn (Kurgan I and II) or an earthen mound or kurgan (Kurgan III and IV). (LL)