This is a little hard to follow since presumably the northern tribes were human, too.

It is only with the rise of agriculture, as well as incursions from war-like northern tribes, that we begin to see not only social and sexual control of women but also class stratification and elites for the first time. Agriculture is in many ways a much more difficult life than hunting and gathering, although it als…
Patriarchy Really Is Only 6–9 Thousand Years Old
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This is a little hard to follow since presumably the northern tribes were human, too. Were they patriarchal as well as warlike? How do we decide which group to focus on to establish human history?
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Tree hugger. Tour guide. Top Writer. Feminist. Newly-baptized Bay swimmer. Editor of Fourth Wave. https://medium.com/fourth-wave
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