The prize has been awarded in the United States since 1935 for the most outstanding research in the history of world culture. In 1991, she received the Anisfield-Wolf prize for her book The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe published in that year. She explored Baltic mythology in depth and, having revealed the merits of the matricentric – what she called “matristic” – culture became an icon of feminist ideology. 1 Having opened the door to the archaeological past of “Old Europe”, she built a unique methodology for which she coined the term archaeomythological. Like the goddess of light she describes in her work, she is acclaimed, respected, even adored. One of the most renowned US archaeologists, Lithuanian-born Marija Alseikaite-Gimbutas (1921-94), created her own myth of extraordinariness. Most important, let us not cut off the bonds with the spiritual past of our nation. She was the only twentieth-century scholar to have discovered and described an entire, unrecognized civilization. Marija Gimbutas was the luckiest of scholars.
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