Reflexions about the work of Marija Gimbutas, her personal ideologies in Archaeological Thought and the Idilization of the Baltic Area

Abstract

This article studies some aspects that remain outside the scope of the most part of the arguments about the archaeologist American Lithuanian Marija Gimbutas, popularly well-known in the occident for her ideas about the “Old Europe” and the “Civilization of the Goddess” but more influent in the scientific and academic scopes for her contribution in the field of the Indo-European studies. Particularly we analyze how her personal biography guides the construction of the archaeological knowledge concerning the Indo-European and Balto-Slavic studies. The preference for the ambit of her previous workmanship despite of her more popularly known and discussed studies, stating it as the gender one, is not only for its great acceptance and influence in the scientific environment. But also in the potential field that “a supposedly neutral” knowledge discloses in the detention of the motivations and subjective ideologies, based on the personal experience, and the proper perception of the delineation and evolution of its posterior sort of ideas.