[SunkenCiv]

The cairn at Hazleton North included two L-shaped burial chambers.

Pic Credit: Newcastle University

[antidemoncrat]

“They found that 27 of them were descended from four women who all had children with the same man.”

The world’s first swinging bachelor?

[AndyJackson]

four women who all had children with the same man

Lucky guy.

[llevrok]

Count the toes.....

[Secret Agent Man]

again proving hypergamy

[Glad2bnuts]

Women, even today will take any position in the home of a man who can care for their needs. I am talking about shelter, and abundant food. In short, the guy was wealthy. It is no different today, or wouldn’t be if men had not done such a great job making a society of plenty for all.

[SaxxonWoods]

And over in the corner, inscribed in the stone:

Clinton.

[Deplorable American1776]

4 different women? I hope his mothers in law didn’t live with them...

[TexasFreeper2009]

I wonder if they could determine if anyone of that lineage is alive today?

[x]

Co-author of the study, Dr Lindsey Büster from the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, said: “Please take my findings seriously in spite of my ridiculous name”.

[rx]

While it is somewhat interesting to learn a bit about the procreational habits of descendants of a particular, heavily patriarchal, now British Isle family tree branch from 5700 years ago, I'm even more interested to hear from research into those who had time well beyond their struggle for survival (already 80k+ years ago advanced from hunter-gatherers to farming, apparently) to congregate at Gobekli Tepe 11,000+ years ago. All the more, I'm interested in the Denisovans, who were living and using precision drills to make jewelry 40k+ years ago. There's apparently Denisovan DNA scattered through "the four corners" of the world.

[ccmay]

It’s a sad reality of the human species that for most of our time on this planet, most men had no children, and the men who did have children had them by a truly startling number of women. In some societies, 17 women had children for every man who left descendants.

It’s good to be king. Or Khan. Or just a village chief.

[nicollo]

I'm pretty sure it wasn't this guy:

[PistolPaknMama]

Fascinating! Thanks for posting!

[Rebelbase]

“They found that 27 of them were descended from four women who all had children with the same man.”

I know woman from Uganda who has 27 brothers and sisters from one father with 7 wives.