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Reading Crete Reclaimed, and they don't seem to put two and two together, one thing ends, firmly establishing the "pre-eminence of women," but then the next paragraph says it doesn't mean men were second class citizens, like women have been since - and for me, then it's not, "pre-eminence," is all.
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To me, if social status etc., is tracked via matrilineage, that is simply reality, everybody knows who your mother is - your father could be anyone, patrilineage is obviously riddled with false heredity, and matrilineage would keep any power and property, etc., in the actual family, by blood and genetics – now I’m not looking to support any sort of alphaism or royalism, I’m not sure that those things staying in actual, genetic families is a good thing, in terms of power, I’m a bit of an anarchist, not here to support power, but I’m not clear that the power structure in Crete or in the Neolithic world was the same at all anyway, perhaps what is preserved by matrilineage is not power but traits, and capabilities, things that run in families. Maybe their administrators were good at administration, and so were their children being their actual children and all.
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And for me, Crete’s matrilineage is a clue that possibly the ancient world knew things about heredity, and probably evolution too – and that this knowledge was not a priority among the coming . . . patrilineals.
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They say there wasn't patriarchal sort of marriage, that women chose who to breed with - does this suggest they were optimizing their families and nation, choosing traits to reproduce, and perhaps traits not to? It said, "from other clans," so they at least had a clan system to control for inbreeding problems, and maybe more, as I said. We have seen the patrilineal modern royal families suffer from not apparently tracking traits, but only titles.
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I suppose the unknowns remain, the matrilineals didn’t really know who their fathers were either – this is the thought that had me claw this back last night – but that data wasn’t as power critical, and its quality didn’t so strongly affect the operation of the society, that’s the thing.
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The change, when the world went to patrilineage, destroyed what may well have been forever, Indigenous knowledge about heredity and evolution so that only after thousands of years of patrilineage, people, "discovered," evolution again. Mind you, that was almost two hundred years ago, and they are undiscovering it again, not that it caught on anyway.
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But this is the ancient history story that works for my Autistic mind and my pattern solving daemon, that we used to know things, and now we do not. Every creature evolves some knowledge about how not to just breed with your sibling, every species that exists would have had to evolve something for that, humans not excluded. It is strange and erroneous to assume human never figured that out in three million years, we wouldn't have lasted anywhere near this long. Not inbreeding, but all the knowledge around breeding, lineage, heredity.
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We lost this knowledge, when the normal people showed up and took over and started beating everyone stupid. And it doesn't look like we're going to last anywhere near very long again.
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bleddy autocorrupt knows the male word but not the female one 😈