Not saying your wrong, but I just read "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari, and my take away was that there were plenty of matriarchal tribes before agriculture and industry. And, generally it's not an unusual thing for primates. He even goes into a lot of detail on why things changed within the last 12,000 years.

No offense, but I'd rather trust that guy's story than some random dude on the internet's.

actually there are quite a few in Asia and Africa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_matrilineal_or_matrilo...

The Akans of Ghana, West Africa, are matrlineals. Akans are the largest ethnic group in Ghana. They are made of the Akims, Asantes, Fantis, Akuapims, Kwahus, Denkyiras, Brongs, Akwamus, Krachis etc.

"Matrilineal" means property is passed down through the maternal line on the death of the mother, not that of the father.

Matrilineal != Matriarchal.

There are a substantial number of matrilineal societies, probably due to the ease of knowing who your mother is compared to your father, before genetic testing was developed. They are quite often not matriarchal, though.

I recall a quote from Margaret Mead stating that there is no evidence that a matriarchal society has ever existed.