God as a woman: The original Mother Goddess of everything. (The Venus of Laussel is an 18.11-inch-high, limestone bas-relief of a nude woman. She is painted with red ochre & carved into the limestone in the Dordogne region of south-western France. She is approximately 25,000 years old)
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My sole consolation for not knowing about the so-called "Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck" is that you simply can't know everything, and I admit this is quite new to me. I'm not even sure, I understand it, but no matter what, it's very, very interesting as it somehow mirrors the sad, but undeniable shift into Patriarchy:
"The Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck was a period about 7,000 to 5,000 years ago when human male genetic diversity sharply declined across Africa, Europe, and Asia, similar to a 1:17 male-to-female ratio of effective reproduction. While the exact cause is debated, a leading hypothesis suggests that the rise of patrilineal clans and frequent warfare between them led to the dominance of a few males who monopolized reproduction, resulting in other males having reduced reproductive success."
"Starting about 7,000 years ago, something weird seems to have happened to men: Over the next two millennia, recent studies suggest, their genetic diversity –specifically, the diversity of their Y chromosomes – collapsed. So extreme was that collapse that it was as if only one man was left to mate for every 17 women." Tian Chen Zeng thinks he has found the answer to the origins of this “Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck”. It has something to do with the clan-system as suggested here: "After the onset of farming and herding around 12,000 years ago, societies grew increasingly organized around extended kinship groups, many of them patrilineal clans – a cultural fact with potentially significant biological consequences. The key is how clan members are related to each other. While women may have married into a clan, men in such clans are all related through male ancestors and therefore tend to have the same Y chromosomes. From the point of view of those chromosomes at least, it’s almost as if everyone in a clan has the same father."
To me that looks very logical, but one thing is for sure: We are still in the early learning-process when it comes to ancient history, and there are many questions out there which haven't been answered ....
I always suggest that people who are interested in how the social structures changed with the uprise of Patriarchy read this book, but there are many ways to achieve more knowledge, and there is much more than what one single book may bring ....
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tian-Chen-Zeng
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