...Mysterious ancient human society was run by a 'female elite' and lived in sprawling stone...

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[central_va]

What’s a woman? Can you define the term?

[BenLurkin]

Something about chromosomes.

[BenLurkin]

Something about chromosomes.

[Grimmy]

How do we know those bodies were from women running the area elitely, and not just the usual sacrificial victims? but in this culture, those women were specifically set up in ceremonies as bait for wandering Karen demons so they could be trapped and then buried?

I mean, Occamz’s Razor.

Women actually managing to run something successfully
or
Karen demons.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, after Star Trek Roddenberry tried an entire series based on the concept, but set on post-apocalyptic Earth.

[MinorityRepublican]

Yep. Most civilization seem to have female rulers right before they’re conquered or collapse internally.

America is a matriachy. But our female voters haven't voted for a woman president yet.

[17th Miss Regt]

Did they have a homeowner’s association?

[BenLurkin]

Bobby Dooley ran it like her own personal fiefdom.

[COBOL2Java]

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.

That's the best anthropologists can do when there are no written records, and the society is long extinct.

[central_va]

Once per month they had hell week.

[NorthMountain]

I wonder what the US will be like 330 years after giving women the right to vote.

On the current trajectory, The United States will not exist and historians will debate the stupidity of the people who passed the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments ... and the greater stupidity of the people who only managed to repeal 18.

[Wuli]

“That’s the best anthropologists can do when there are no written records, and the society is long extinct.”

When inferences are the “best” they can do, lacking written language records contemporaneous to the remains found, it is academic arrogance to “report” them as “knowledge”. If they admitted their own arrogant hubris, they’d admit “we really don’t know what these things mean”.

Instead they teach those being “educated”, using only their inferences as facts, which they are not.

There is totally knowing wrong intellectually to just say “we really don’t know”.

[sit-rep]

They didn’t have fake tits back then...