In her work she reinterpreted European prehistory in light of her backgrounds in linguistics, ethnology, and the history of religions, and challenged many traditional assumptions about the beginnings of European civilization.
I sin forskning gentolkede hun europæisk forhistorie i et nyt lys på baggrund af hendes studier i lingvistik, etnologi, og religionshistorie, og udfordrede derved mange traditionelle antagelser om den europæiske civilisations begyndelse.