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Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by flukus on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:06PM (#12229810)
> Our main source of information of our hunter-gatherer ancestors is often modern hunter-gatherers, but they are very likely to be different than the ancient ones. Two major differences are (1) the modern ones are in contact with modern societies, and (2) the land they live on is not random, it's land agriculturalists didn't decide to occupy, and has some specific characteristics (mainly that it is poor).

There are also a whole bunch we've run into that were largely isolated until recently in Australia and the pacific. How many of them are matriarchal?

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Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by danieltillett on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:49AM (#12231495)
> There are also a whole bunch we've run into that were largely isolated until recently in Australia and the pacific. How many of them are matriarchal?

Zero.

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