[SteveH]

I'm not certain that the conclusion is warranted. IIRC, some Native American tribes would obtain women from raiding parties conducted against neighboring villages/tribes. This practice implies to me that women were regarded as similar to property by males in areas where such tribes lived, and society would then reinforce patriarchy in those areas. However, I have no background in this (perhaps someone with more can help illuminate the various scientific theories)

[SteveH]

ggg ping

[Fzob]

......We’d argue it was only with the emergence of agriculture, when people could start to accumulate resources, that inequality emerged.”.....

Sounds like more blame capitalism nonsense.

[wbarmy]

Even troglodytes understood that if “momma” ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.

[Pollster1]

Men have more muscle; women are the ones who have babies. They certainly had different roles. That’s only common sense. Back then, those who abandoned common sense died, unlike today when they are celebrated.

[x_plus_one]

Slavery, Indentured Servitude and bound apprenticeships have existed since the beginning of humanity. The only equalization of humanity occurred after the resurrection of Christ.

[WayneS]

Yes. As usual, everything was perfect until evil white male Europeans ruined it...

[WayneS]

Interesting. It looks like they developed a computer model to give them the results they wanted, and the model gave them the results they wanted.

[SampleMan]

In a world driven by physical strength, women were only the primary achievers in child birth.

The trouble with anthropologists is that they find two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and draw in the rest with guesses and wishful thinking.

It’s a conjecture of possible explanations, one of which they must choose in order to publish.

[DH]

” men and women tend to have equal influence on where their group lives and who they live with.”

I read pure crap like this and can’t believe that people actually think this is a true researched statement. Stop, and use some very basic common sense: How do they know? Did they actually ask one of the ancients? Hell no, they simply figured that they might have lived that way for they have absolutely no physical proof of the fact.

As a matter of fact, the article smells of the stink of Political Correctness.

[Zeppo]

the earliest human societies are likely to have been founded on enlightened egalitarian principles, according to scientists.

And, as we all know, if 'scientists' say something, it must be true...

/s

[Jim Noble]

Early men and women were equal, say scientists

SURE they were...

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes, they were called ‘Adam and Eve’

[Popman]

Considering one of the main driving forces putting woman and men on equal footing in society way after caveman was the advent of the teaching of christianity, but not exclusively...

I’d say their “model” falls in the range of GIGO

[Verginius Rufus]

One of the 16th-century Texas tribes which Cabeza de Vaca talks about killed all of their girl babies at birth. They obtained wives from other tribes.

[uglybiker]

They were equal-ly delicious.

[Colorado Doug]

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[VaeVictis]

So much for club-and-drag away marriages of the stone age?

[Resolute Conservative]

More importantly were at least half of them queer to reflect diversity?

[CodeToad]

Liberal tripe, not science. Liberals don’t know a scientist is.

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe they need a new species name for this early man who practiced equality: Homo kumbayaensis?