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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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

I refused to believe a word of this nonsense until they dug up the room...with all the shoes...


21 posted on 02/22/2017 10:43:49 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: BenLurkin
I remember a woman friend talking to me about a female-run society she had read about, where the men owned none of the property, didn't live with the woman he had sex with, but only visited her at night. She said a woman could signal she didn't want a man any more by turning her tent so it faced a different direction.

I upset her when I pointed out that, in such a society, the men had no incentive to stick around when the next band of barbarians came over the hill. With no permanence to keep them, the incentive to be to say "Y'know, I think there are some women who are just as cute as what I have available here, over that next hill".

The whole "turning the tent" situation would be disadvantageous to women over the long run. In a stable living situation, the man needs a good reason to move out. In a situation where he doesn't live with the women, she needs to daily give him a reason to show up. The closest modern example is the "inner city", where women live by themselves with their kids, and a "baby daddy" occasionally shows up.

22 posted on 02/22/2017 10:45:23 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: SMARTY

Good one.


23 posted on 02/22/2017 10:47:45 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: bigbob

“I slaved all day” ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKkZDI1z88k


24 posted on 02/22/2017 10:48:45 AM PST by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: BenLurkin
“Matrilineal” does not equate to “Matriarchal”.

It just means that your family lineage, identity and history is determined by who your mother was.

Actually, Jewish custom is very similar.

As a famous Jewish commenter once said., it's 100% certain who your mother was - your father, not so much.

25 posted on 02/22/2017 10:51:53 AM PST by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ...)
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To: BenLurkin

Obviously didn’t work out or they would still be here today.


26 posted on 02/22/2017 10:52:36 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: teeman8r
In before demands for slow motion images.


27 posted on 02/22/2017 10:55:37 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: BenLurkin; Lazamataz

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

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Ahhh, Laz. You’re living several civilizations too late.

If only....


28 posted on 02/22/2017 10:57:39 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: BenLurkin

Sister wives everyone of them.

There was a man there for sure.


29 posted on 02/22/2017 10:59:09 AM PST by donna ('God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
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To: BenLurkin

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/did-women-control-bloodline-ancient-chaco-canyon

...But it’s also possible that the remains represent the experience of just one elite family, and not all of Chacoan society...


30 posted on 02/22/2017 10:59:46 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: bigbob
Who say that in many ways they don't still? Be quiet Walter!


31 posted on 02/22/2017 11:03:19 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve been to Chaco Canyon four or five times. It is interesting to say the least.

HOWEVER, there is strong evidence that very few people ever lived in the massive complex. It may have really been a central religious/ceremonial complex or a so-called “food distribution center.” There has been recent work done on the astronomical aspect of the complex, in particular there is one geological butte that has the equinox and solstice designations found commonly elsewhere.

I am skeptical of this particular article.


32 posted on 02/22/2017 11:09:17 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: Billthedrill

33 posted on 02/22/2017 11:09:35 AM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: BenLurkin
'Studying how societies like the Chacoans passed power is central to our understanding of why complex societies rise and fall,'

"elite status was passed down through the maternal line from 800-1130AD."

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

34 posted on 02/22/2017 11:13:05 AM PST by fruser1
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To: teeman8r

yessssssssss... slo motion.....


35 posted on 02/22/2017 11:33:17 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: BenLurkin

So, they admit the society was rife with inequality, and now it’s gone. That’s my takeaway.


36 posted on 02/22/2017 11:34:43 AM PST by MissNomer
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To: TADSLOS

Snoo-snoo all the men to death, then you got no more civilization.


37 posted on 02/22/2017 11:34:59 AM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: Gamecock

I’m taking that.


38 posted on 02/22/2017 11:36:49 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Theoria

The look on that guy’s face says: “Go ahead. Make a comment. I dare you.”


39 posted on 02/22/2017 11:37:59 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: TADSLOS

Hahahahahahahahahaha...I love the little high-five!


40 posted on 02/22/2017 11:39:24 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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