Marija Gimbutas: The Civilization Of The Goddess

The Civilization of the Goddess Marija Gimbutas was born in 1921, in Vilnius the capital city of Lithuania, situated in the southeast of the country. She maintained a lifelong interest in the culture and customs of her homeland. She came to the United States as an immigrant from the Soviet government in 1949 after earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree in archaeology in 1946 at Tubingen University in Germany. Her background included linguistics, ethnology, and the history of religions, which was unusual for an archaeologist. Marija was engaged by Harvard University in 1950 to do research and to write texts on European prehistory. She remained at Harvard for thirteen years, where she also became a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology. Marija
Stone circles are most often found in Europe, especially in Ireland and Great Britain. More than nine hundred circles still exist in the British. The earliest known stone circles were thought to have been erected during the Neolithic period. While the use of each of the individual structures isn’t always known, it has been determined that some megaliths were part of burial mounds or were used to burn the dead. Sometimes boulders were used in combination with the stones as were ditches surrounding the place. As time progressed the stone circles became more complex and bigger. Regardless of size stone circles are considered usually spiritual places. It has been widely claimed that stone circles were designed as astronomical observatories, that the stones were laid out to create sight lines to various celestial objects and events. While it seems pretty clear that solar and lunar alignments were an important factor in the layout of many of the rings. In order to completely understand the origin of where these stones came from, we would have to find out the whole history of these artifacts. Finally, there are thousands of combinations of stones at any given site that produce sight