Selon l'anthropologue Ashley Montagu, « Marija Gimbutas has given us a veritable Rosetta Stone of the greatest heuristic value for future work in the hermeneutics of archaeology and anthropology. »(en) Joan Marler, « A Vision for the World: The Life and Work of Marija Gimbutas », Comparative Civilizations Review, vol. 33, , p. 2, note 3 : Letter from Ashley Montagu to Joan Marler (1993) (lire en ligne)
