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Publisher Marketing: The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original -- and originally shocking -- interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. Gimbutas flew in the face of contemporary archaeology when she reconstructed goddess-centered cultures that predated historic patriarchal cultures by many thousands of years.

Contributor Bio: Marija Gimbutas:
Gimbutas was a professor of European Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Miriam Robbins Dexter:
Dexter holds a Ph.D. in Indo-European studies from UCLA, is a lecturer in the Honors Collegia and in the Program in Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.