User talk:194.27.168.244

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I just dropped in to read about the concept of matriarchy, and was surprised by the disregard for known archeological fact displayed in the article. The change history made it obvious those passages were all recently added by 66.245.5.11. Based on two conferences and a book, which are not even referenced in the text or even described more than by name. Unspecified "matriarchal societies coming out of the woodwork" hardly seems like a solid base to throw away everything known so far. That these societies are "self-described" is alla very well, but what are they? Is it an apartment in New York who's inhabitants have decided to adpot a matriarchal system? Even if it's more of a society than that, how can it's existance say anything about what did or did not take place during the neolithic age?

I've never contributed to wikipedia and didn't feel confident to revert these changes myself, so I arite this on the discussion page instead. Thankfully, the pre-change version of the article was still available so I could find the information I was looking for without ideologically motivated smoke screens.194.27.168.244 (talk) 09:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)