[DGray]

Just FYI, Gimbutas has been pretty much discredited in the academic world due to her blind allegiance to the GAM (Great Mother Goddess) theory, for which there really is no support beyond wishful thinking. Ronald Hutton's Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles is a good overview of what is really known and not known about the neolithic structures and carvings found in Britain and Ireland - which isn't much.

[Fedora]

Yeah, I don't buy her GAM theory, either :-) That's one reason I mentioned Bailey, because he shows how you can interpret the same data without a GAM slant. Everyone's got strengths and weaknesses, though. She's still got a good feel for symbolism, and more importantly for my purposes her books have lots of photos and illustrations for raw data, which is my main use for them; for theory I go elsewhere. Thanks for the Hutton recommendation--I'll check that out.