Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas Kurgans, Vaginas, and Lizard People LIBRARIAN OF CELAENO Imagine if one evening Stephen Hawking appeared on the History Channel to announce that, based on his research, he had determined that aliens had in fact not only built the pyramids, but also created a utopian world civilization, and that they had left clues to their presence in the form of circles and triangles carved and painted all over the place- anytime you see either, you know it’s the Saucer Men. Imagine that he also stated confidently that he could confirm this information by reference to his intuition concerning outer space. While, like the rest of America, I would have absolutely loved to have seen that, it unfortunately didn’t happen. Instead, the world got a somewhat more puzzling train-wreck in the form of Marija Gimbutas. I say the world; Hawking is famous, a household name. Gimbutas is not, but should be. It is to her more than anyone else that the credit should be given for solving one of the