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.
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Merely Pre-Columbian
And that is why they disappeared.
And then one day, they all just...disappeared.
Silence, slave.
:-P
Women calling the shots - what’s new about that?
You beat me by that much. LOL
Girl power! Mysterious ancient human society was run by a ‘female elite’ and lived in sprawling stone mansions
LMAO....some things never change...well I don’t live in a stone mansion
Woman driver, no survivor.
Mr. Mercat and I spent several weeks in southern and eastern Mexico in the early 70s. I vaguely remember two villages which were matriarchy. The women were generally larger. In one of the villages the men wore white pleated skirts. In the other village I don’t even remember seeing men. Weird. Oh, and a policeman ran us down on foot, flagging us down and blowing his whistle as we were driving by. We were afraid he was going to arrest us but we stopped anyway. Turned out he just wanted a ride to the next town.
So did the "girls-power" elites build the giant stone mansions? Or was that .... GASP! ... men?
Nah! One day the bull dyke lesbians said we don’t need men any mor and killed every male in their kingdom.
Old Man time and nature took its course and proved that they were correct.
Dead lesbos don’t need anything.
Women? Secret?
Nahhh!
THAT’S how they failed
in before the wonder woman reference.
Love the BOC tag line!
The society collapsed around the time that ancient cars were invented.
And then they and the morg went to Sigma Draconis VI.
Favored concubines.
LOL! Very few women I’ve known can keep a secret ;-)
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