--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > G&J quotes a reference who points out that never in the > history of human civilization, and prior to that, was there > a matriarchal society. >
I don't know about the rest of the material presented in this thread, but the above is quite obviously wrong. If I remember correctly, there were many prehistoric tribes, including those in south India that followed the matriarchal and matrilinear system. I think a buffalo-herding pastoral tribe of Goa that moved in from the south had such an organization. From the evolutionary standpoint, Bonobos, one of our closest cousins in the primate family live in a primitive matriarchal society. Cheers, Santosh
