 He died in Edinburgh on 2 March 1936 and was buried in Cromarty.In one of his key works, "Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe" (1917), Mackenzie argued that across Europe during Neolithic times, pre-Indo-European societies were matriarchal and woman-centered (gynocentric), where goddesses were venerated but that the Bronze Age Indo-European patriarchal ("androcratic") culture supplanted it.Mackenzie's matristic theories were notably influential to Marija Gimbutas.