Your statement sounds like an assumption.
There were many cultures who had celebrated women warriors. For one example: Bodacia, (Boadicea) who carried out one of the biggest defeats against Rome...
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and here's a link to the profiles of some other historic women warriors -
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa032703a.htm
..Why would we assume there were not women warriors in ancient Mesoamerica? Especially in light of their own artifacts?
Maybe we perceived it differently. I wasn’t thinking about exceptions. I was thinking in terms of armies, societal structures, physical strength, and emotional predisposition. There have always been exceptions throughout history.
The story of Bodica(sp) ends with her and her followers being slaughtered at the hands of a Roman force about a tenth or less the size of her army. I think this same Roman general was eventually called back to Rome because they felt his actions against the Britons was a bit too heavy handed.
An interesting detail in the Huastec link was that they moved across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in their travels to the north and east. More than 40 years ago when I was traveling around Mexico, I was told that the Tehuana women were culturally dominant and strong and attractive, while their men were small and meek. Perhaps these two cultures are in some way related or were the origin of a phenomenon that has lasted for millenia.