Original sentence: Gimbutas's theses are not widely accepted.She investigated the Neolithic period (which she termed "Old Europe") in order to understand cultural developments in settled village culture in the southern Balkans, which she characterized as peaceful and matrilinear, before the Indo-European influences which she broadly characterized as nomadic and patriarchal.The term "Old Europe" was introduced by Marija Gimbutas, in The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: 6500-3500 B.Using evidence from pottery and sculpture, and combining the tools of archaeology, comparative mythology, linguistics, and, most controversially, folklore, Gimbutas invented a new interdisciplinary field, archaeomythology
Edited sentence: Excavations in what was then Yugoslavia, in Macedonia, Greece and Italy made it possible for Gimbutas to focus on an investigation of the Neolithic period (which she termed "Old Europe") in order to understand cultural developments in settled village culture, which she characterized as peaceful and matrilinear,  before the Indo-European influences which she broadly characterized as nomadic and patriarchal.Finding her evidence in a meticulous study of pottery and sculpture and combining the tools of archaeology, comparative mythology, linguistics, and, most controversially, folklore, Gimbutas developed a new interdisciplinary field, archaeomythology.Gimbutas claims is yet to be proven.Much of what Ms.The term "Old Europe" was introduced by Marija Gimbutas, in The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe : 6500-3500 B