[SunkenCiv]

Gimbutas? I’m not sure she was involved in the dig, but she did author a book about this, championing the goddess angle. Catal Huyuk appears to have had a wide variety of different cults, or perhaps had basically secular art objects that have been interpreted (as so many prehistoric survivals have been) as cult objects. :’)

[JimSEA]

I think it is likely one of her students I am thinking of. She pushed the idea of a culture having goddesses into a matriarchal “perfect” neolithic society. A good example of ideology warping science.