by Ruth Tringham | Dec 7, 2021
Old Europe: House, Fire, the Goddess, and Ambiguity (2021) This presentation was given on December 1, 2021, as the 3rd Marija Gimbutas Memorial Lecture in the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. The presentation coincided with the 100th anniversary of the birth...
by Ruth Tringham | Jul 8, 2021
Archaeology and The Goddess: Exploring the Contours of Feminist Archaeology (1995) with Margaret Conkey This chapter was commissioned by the editors – two leading feminists in the US – from Meg Conkey. I was added as an author at the request of Meg Conkey...
by Ruth Tringham | Jul 6, 2021
Rethinking Figurines a critical view from archaeology of Gimbutas, the ‘Goddess’ and Popular Culture (1998) with Margaret Conkey As archaeologists who had critically analyzed the interpretation of anthropomorphic figurines in prehistoric Europe as...
by Ruth Tringham | Jun 28, 2020
Ask an Archaeologist: How Archaeologists deal with Uncertainty: Celebrating the ambiguity of the archaeological record (2020) This video presentation/interview comprised Episode 24 of “Ask an Archaeologist”, a series of live-streamed interviews co-hosted...
by Ruth Tringham | Nov 23, 2018
Archaeological houses, households, housework and the home (1995)This article was originally presented at an international conference on “The Home” in Trondheim, Norway in August 1992, to which I was invited as one of the keynote speakers. The article was...