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executrix, for the photographs in the Marija Gimbutas collection and Gheorghe and Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici for permission to publish illustrations from their excavations. We thank Lala Zuo for her carefully wrought line drawings and Alice Thiede for her maps of Europe and Eurasia.
Miriam Robbins Dexter would like to thank the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for their support of her as a research scholar and for supplying year-round access to the UCLA Young Research Library. Some of her Medusa section in this book is based upon, and is a continuation of, that cited in the bibliography as Dexter Forthcoming (2010). In that paper, she focuses upon the iconography and functions of the Greek Medusa, tracing her in texts from the Greek Homer through later Roman authors. That material was first presented at the invitational conference, “Female Mysteries of the Substratum,” Sofia, Bulgaria, June 2–13, 2004. She is grateful to the participants in that conference for their helpful comments, and especially to Joan Marler for the wonderful grace with which she produced this conference. Miriam would also like to thank Starr Goode for first introducing her to Sheela na gigs, Carol P. Christ for her careful reading of parts of the manuscript, Vicki Noble for long discussions of Eurasian magical women, and Miranda Shaw for a wonderful discussion of Tantric Buddhist goddesses and of yoga and shamanism. Adrian Poruciuc very graciously shared his knowledge of Romanian language and bibliography on female figures, and Bahattin Çelik shared hundreds of pages of articles on the early Neolithic archaeology of the Levant, particularly that of Southeast Anatolia. Finally, love and thanks to her children, Jacob and Leah Robbins, for their constant interest in and affirmation of her work, and to her husband Greg Dexter for his tremendous support of all her work: spiritual, intellectual, and photographic!