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...Mysterious ancient human society was run by a 'female elite' and lived in sprawling stone...
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Posted on 02/22/2017 10:29:07 AM PST by BenLurkin

Girl power! Mysterious ancient human society was run by a 'female elite' and lived in sprawling stone mansions

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The bodies were placed in sequential tombs over a 330 year period and spanned multiple generations.

The finds reveal that a high degree of social differentiation and societal complexity existed in Chaco by the early 9th century.

'All societies are complex, but here we see a society with larger populations living in villages and cities and where major differences in status and wealth are evident,' Professor Kennett told MailOnline.

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The Chacoans, one of North America’s earliest complex societies, lived in massive, multi-storied masonry buildings, known as 'great houses'.

Pueblo Bonito is the largest of these great houses with over 800 rooms.

The Chacoans occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.

One hundred and eleven pottery jars have been found in Pueblo Bonito's sprawl of public and ceremonial rooms.

The great house also contains elaborate burial chambers including 'Room 33' used by the Pennsylvania team for their research.

Room 33 was a chamber used to bury a high-status member of the Chacoan community and their descendants.

The team found multiple bodies in the chamber which they genetically analysed, finding that for 330 years power was passed from female to female.

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The canyon contains large-scale public and ceremonial buildings with intricate architecture, suggesting that the culture thrived as a complex society a thousand years ago.

Using masonry techniques unique for their time, the Chacoan constructed many 'Great Houses' with multiple stories containing hundreds of rooms.

The buildings were planned from the start, in contrast to the usual practices of adding rooms to existing structures as needed.

Constructions on some of these buildings spanned decades and even centuries.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: anasazi; chaco; chacocanyon; fourcorners; godsgravesglyphs; matriarchy; pueblobonita; revisionisthistory; sexist
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To: Jim 0216

>>Mysterious ancient human society was run by a ‘female elite’

>And that is why they disappeared.

Yep. Most civilization seem to have female rulers right before they’re conquered or collapse internally. Funny now that I think about, but Hillary Clinton would have probably been the last president of the United State of America if she’d won. There wouldn’t be a country left by the time her term was over.


41 posted on 02/22/2017 11:44:13 AM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: bigbob
Women calling the shots - what’s new about that?

Give them obsidian blades and you'll find out.

42 posted on 02/22/2017 11:45:33 AM PST by Stentor (A day without illegals is like a day without food poisoning.--Salamander)
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To: BenLurkin
Genetic analysis of Chacoan bodies reveals they were run by a maternal elite

The Chaco Tacos.
43 posted on 02/22/2017 11:46:48 AM PST by needmorePaine
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve always suspected that Raquel Welch was of Chacoan ancestry.


44 posted on 02/22/2017 11:52:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: BenLurkin

45 posted on 02/22/2017 12:12:04 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: BenLurkin

46 posted on 02/22/2017 12:13:40 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: RedWulf

Agreed.


47 posted on 02/22/2017 12:26:34 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: rdcbn
Well, there was that young woman from County Kerry who hired a detective to find out who the mother of her child was.

People from County Kerry are targeted with jokes of the blonde joke or Texas Aggie joke variety...at least they were when I was in Ireland.

48 posted on 02/22/2017 12:42:29 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: BenLurkin; Lazamataz

Just me... I don’t want to live in a stone mansion and be dominated by an ancient elite female.

...but Laz might!


49 posted on 02/22/2017 12:43:41 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: TADSLOS

The snu snu episode. Me and the kids got a big laugh out of that one!


50 posted on 02/22/2017 12:49:58 PM PST by refermech
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To: rdcbn

The Jews only became matrilineal as the Diaspora; as a cohesive nation, they were patrilineal. Read the Bible.

It is an unfortunate commentary on both the uncertainties they suffered and the immoralities they indulged as exiles as they became increasingly atheistic (despite their superficial adherence to tradition).

Look at the typical “Jew” today: atheist, leftist, amoral.

Spare me the indignation: I took Hebrew class with a room full of Jews; they were all the above except for the teacher herself. I, the Gentile, and the teacher, an Israeli, were the only ones who knew anything about the Bible, and the only ones who did not subscribe to a vulgar and hedonistic lifestyle. Most of them had lived in a commune (kibbutz), and many of them were promiscuous.

(By the bye, my mother is part Jew. She, my siblings, and I would all have fried in Germany circa 1944. But she is a Christian, as was her very Jewish forbear - what they would now call a Messianic Jew.)


51 posted on 02/22/2017 1:19:05 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: TADSLOS

“Me want snu snu”.


52 posted on 02/22/2017 1:24:57 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: BenLurkin

I thought Navajo society was also matriarchal? Perhaps the people just moved a few miles?


53 posted on 02/22/2017 1:38:48 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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Yeah. So? Oh I see, we have to fight the patriarchy. /s


54 posted on 02/22/2017 1:46:23 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: BenLurkin

With no written records from people, they make inferences for what many things meant, socially, back then, using what we think certain things mean today; but they are totally guessing on MANY things - like matriarchy, but don’t really have facts, just their inferences.


55 posted on 02/22/2017 2:51:16 PM PST by Wuli
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To: BenLurkin

A ‘female elite’ for the administration of a society doesn’t surprise me. The men would likely have been busy hunting and gathering, or farming to keep folks in groceries!


56 posted on 02/22/2017 3:23:25 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: BenLurkin

Love that you recognized it!

:)


57 posted on 02/22/2017 4:49:15 PM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: Jim 0216
And that is why they disappeared.

Actually I've head the reason they went out of business was climate change combined with a psychosis brought on by eating only corn...

58 posted on 02/23/2017 1:06:03 PM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote...)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
This topic was posted 2/22/2017, thanks BenLurkin.
My BS meter just went off in 2023.

59 posted on 04/24/2023 2:19:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democrato delenda est. [thanks Fai Mao])
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To: SunkenCiv


60 posted on 04/24/2023 4:35:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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