[Renfield]

View of one of two skeletons found in a burial chamber of the Moche culture (between 200-700 AD), in the Cao religious compound, close to the city of Trujillo, Peru, on August 3, 2013.

Workers uncover a burial chamber of the Moche culture in the Cao religious compound, close to the city of Trujillo, Peru, on August 3, 2013. The discovery in Peru of another tomb belonging to a pre-Hispanic priestess, the eighth in more than two decades, confirms that powerful women ruled this region 1,200 years ago, archeologists said.

[Renfield]

Ping

[ClearCase_guy]

pre-Hispanic priestess

I don't think I've seen that term before. Is "Pre-Columbian" now considered offensive?

[arthurus]

Among the North American Plains Indians, homosexuals who became adults tended to be the shamans. They did not, however, rule.
I am skeptical of the conclusions presented. Females in our own society have become the actual elite, at least educationally, but they do not rule. They may become a majority in the Congress, and that looks to be in the cards, but they will not rule. It is not in the genes.

[driftless2]

They knew for sure women rule Peru when they found a government decree stating that all toilet seats must be left down under punishment of death.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

Clearly this civilization doesnt exist anymore. That should give you an idea if what would happen if a woman led a country....

[Drawsing]

confirms that powerful women ruled this region 1,200 years ago

Could be true. Or...could be that these were wealthy women whose powerful husbands buried them with great ceremony...remember the Taj Mahal?

The interpretation of history is not immune to those with cultural/political agendas.

[Mercat]

Wow. The Moche were evil. Very creepy human sacrifice and stuff.

[edpc]

They had half of the maize and all of something else.

[bunkerhill7]

Pizarro`s wife, Ines Huaylas, an Incan princess,

sent a message to her MOTHER, not her father,

to send troops to aid her husband from an attack by the other Incan tribes.

Her mother sent the troops and Pizarro`s men were saved.

Shows you who wore the pants in that tribe.

[School of Rational Thought]

Thread is useless without pics of Amazon women.

[COBOL2Java]

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

[colorado tanker]

A “wise latina”? :-))

[no-to-illegals]

courtesy ping.