Joan Marler is the Founder and Executive Director
of the Institute of Archaeomythology, an
international organization promoting
archaeomythological scholarship. She is the
editor of The Civilization of the Goddess by
Marija Gimbutas (1991), From the Realm of the
Ancestors: An Anthology in Honor of Marija
Gimbutas (1997), The Journal of Archaeomythology
(2005-present), The Danube Script (2008), and
other publications. Joan lectures internationally
on the life and work of Marija Gimbutas and is
the author of more than thirty published articles
including a biographical article about Marija
Gimbutas in Harvard’s Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (2004).