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8,000 Years Ago, 17 Women Reproduced for Every One Man
Pacific Standard ^ | March 17, 2015, updated June 14, 2017 | Francie Diep

Posted on 12/20/2021 3:19:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: Trumpet 1

trace their lineage back to Charlemagne.

Ex wife taught at a french private school, once a year the kids would bring their lineage and yes, about 1/3 of them went back to Charlemagne


61 posted on 12/20/2021 4:58:15 PM PST by Jolla
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I wouldn’t be surprised. :^)

It’s also a good guess that war widows (after various conflicts with nomadic raiders) would wind up getting taken into the household of, say, a chief, responsible for the fatherless kids and widows.


62 posted on 12/20/2021 5:03:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: amnestynone

😂


63 posted on 12/20/2021 5:05:18 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So why am I thinking that propinquity also plays here?

Something like “While the hunter is away, the farmer comes in to play!”


64 posted on 12/20/2021 5:11:24 PM PST by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They didn’t. The ones who reproduced enslaved the other men, who did the work.

To the victor go the spoils.


65 posted on 12/20/2021 5:22:32 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Harems in societies where the top guys monopolized the womenfolk and warfare that killed off much of the population of young men before they could reproduce.


66 posted on 12/20/2021 5:26:10 PM PST by ThanhPhero
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To: Telepathic Intruder
"Work the fields boy"

Much like the movie Quest for Fire.

67 posted on 12/20/2021 5:37:44 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: All

so...

domestication -> agriculture -> fiefdoms -> wars -> kings/harems-slaves

(-> bronze trade?)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631462-700-the-real-roots-of-early-city-states-may-rip-up-the-textbooks/


68 posted on 12/20/2021 5:54:40 PM PST by SteveH (.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Are women really happier today? 2/3rds of them are on antidepressants.


69 posted on 12/20/2021 6:19:09 PM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The women were not picking them? I thought when cave men went a-court in’
they took a big club with them.


70 posted on 12/20/2021 6:19:41 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The survival of the fittest…..


71 posted on 12/20/2021 6:25:13 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: SteveH

Thanks for the link to that fascinating article on The New Scientist. I never really thought about “the state” as an invention of man before and what life was like before the state was invented. The two books cited in the article sound very interesting.

This sentence really struck me: “But the vast majority of people had no contact with states as late as the end of the 15th century – Europe’s middle ages.” Maybe 11,000 to 12,000 years of post stone-age mankind and the state still hadn’t touched many peoples’ lives by 1500 AD, only 600 years ago. Now we cannot escape the strangling, suffocating beast.

Against the Grain: A deep history of the earliest states
James C. Scott
Yale University Press

Affluence without Abundance: The disappearing world of the Bushmen
James Suzman
Bloomsbury
This article appeared in print under the headline “Unearthing power”


72 posted on 12/20/2021 6:27:03 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: sphinx
Is it even possible? Yes, it is.
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

73 posted on 12/20/2021 6:27:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Jolla
once a year the kids would bring their lineage and yes, about 1/3 of them went back to Charlemagne

That is the kind of situation where self reported data may be unreliable. Better to put Charlemagne in the lineage than "some traveling peasant who spent the night".

74 posted on 12/20/2021 6:35:27 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: telescope115
Nope.

Human females pick their mates even in primitive tribes.

Or perhaps especially in primitive tribes.

The women do the cooking, it is one of those universal things.

Many things can find their way into the stew pot if she did not pick you.

75 posted on 12/20/2021 7:09:33 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: SunkenCiv

Jeffrey Toobin apparently “Zoomed” to completion, an imbecile at best— and the perv got his job back- so what did he have on the “bosses”.


76 posted on 12/20/2021 7:29:56 PM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

> They took chances, they died.

or became eunuchs


77 posted on 12/20/2021 7:37:23 PM PST by SteveH (.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

LOL, I guess I read too many BC comic strips back in the day!
Come to think of it now, the women in the comic really WERE the men’s equals!🙂


78 posted on 12/20/2021 7:37:47 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

As JEB! the idiot boy with a Mex wife said: “they are so much more fertile”! Guess so vs. the harridan feminist crayzees in the Leftist establishment. The kind who marched in the Pussy hat protest, wearing shirts that read “not my pussy”. To which normal males thought and/or replied— “don’t worry— you can keep it”.

Thus lowering their reproductive potential by their political choice to be “contrary to Nature”, and thus also the supposedly increasing population of homosexuals calling themselves “married”. And Buttigeig and his “partner” “have twin babies” (please, spare us the utterly boring details from a couple of worthless dried dog doo).


79 posted on 12/20/2021 7:39:02 PM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: PIF

DNA shows that there was a genetic bottleneck among humans about 70,000 years ago. As a species were very close to extinction.


80 posted on 12/20/2021 7:49:33 PM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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