ARCHAEOLOGIST

Marija Gimbutas

1921 - 1994

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Marija Gimbutas (Lithuanian: Marija Birutė Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė, pronounced ['ɡɪmbutas]; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marija Gimbutas has received more than 600,493 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Marija Gimbutas is the 11th most popular archaeologist (down from 10th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 21st in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Archaeologist.

Marija Gimbutas is most famous for her theory that the Indo-Europeans were a matriarchal society.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Marija Gimbutas ranks 11 out of 151. Before her are Den, Arthur Evans, Edward Drinker Cope, Semerkhet, Zahi Hawass, and Nynetjer. After her are Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, V. Gordon Childe, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Oscar Montelius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Marija Gimbutas ranks 36. Before her are Vasily Stalin, Gianni Agnelli, John Glenn, Jane Russell, Lana Turner, and Arthur Leonard Schawlow. After her are Lotfi A. Zadeh, Yoichiro Nambu, Akio Morita, Edgar Morin, Alida Valli, and Aaron T. Beck. Among people deceased in 1994, Marija Gimbutas ranks 37. Before her are George Peppard, André Michel Lwoff, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Henry Mancini, Sergei Bondarchuk, and Gian Maria Volonté. After her are Juvénal Habyarimana, Pierre Boulle, Niels Kaj Jerne, Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, Witold Lutosławski, and Fernando Rey.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Marija Gimbutas ranks 23 out of 328. Before her are Jascha Heifetz (1901), Emilia Plater (1806), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Valdas Adamkus (1926), Antanas Smetona (1874), and Barbara Radziwiłł (1520). After her are Hacı I Giray (1397), Andrew Schally (1926), Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799), Algirdas Brazauskas (1932), and Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Lithuania

Among archaeologists born in Lithuania, Marija Gimbutas ranks 1. 

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