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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/mpif-mww090117.php
At the end of the Stone Age and in the early Bronze Age, families were established in a surprising manner in the Lechtal, south of Augsburg, Germany. The majority of women came from outside the area, probably from Bohemia or Central Germany, while men usually remained in the region of their birth. This so-called patrilocal pattern combined with individual female mobility was not a temporary phenomenon, but persisted over a period of 800 years during the transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.
The findings, published today in PNAS, result from a research collaboration headed by Philipp Stockhammer of the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In addition to archaeological examinations, the team conducted stable isotope and ancient DNA analyses. Corina Knipper of the Curt-Engelhorn-Centre for Archaeometry, as well as Alissa Mittnik and Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena and the University of Tuebingen jointly directed these scientific investigations. "Individual mobility was a major feature characterizing the lives of people in Central Europe even in the 3rd and early 2nd millennium," states Philipp Stockhammer. The researchers suspect that it played a significant role in the exchange of cultural objects and ideas, which increased considerably in the Bronze Age, in turn promoting the development of new technologies.
For this study, the researchers examined the remains of 84 individuals using genetic and isotope analyses in conjunction with archeological evaluations. The individuals were buried between 2500 and 1650 BC in cemeteries that belonged to individual homesteads, and that contained between one and several dozen burials made over a period of several generations. "The settlements were located along a fertile loess ridge in the middle of the Lech valley. Larger villages did not exist in the Lechtal at this time," states Stockhammer.
Female exogamy and gene pool diversification at the transition from the Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in central Europe (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706355114) (DX)
[Update: Yes, this story is from 2017 and, no, I have no idea how it appeared in the story submission queue. As for why I didn't notice its antiquity, I plead exhaustion and being unwilling to let the story queue run dry though it was well past midnight when I pushed the story out. Hope you can have some fun with it, anyway! --martyb]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:05PM (10 children)
... when stealing your wife from a neighbouring tribe was the final step in the rite of coming at age.
Or when the men either remained dead on the battlefield or were experiencing the best in life Conan-style, moving the lamenting women to their settlement.
Those were ... times when women moved a lot. Even aristarchus don't remember them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:13PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:20PM
I have this nagging sensation they were forging something more valuable than ties for the neighbors from that bronze. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Blymie on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:30PM (5 children)
I came here to say this exactly. Even today, women are stolen from families.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_kidnapping [wikipedia.org]
And if you raid a village in the bronze age? Guess what's part of the plunder.
And war?! Well, that's another whole ball game. Even "good" outcomes to war can mean the women move.
For example? Look at how many American men took French women home, those women even choosing to do so? Well, the man just rescued her, and on top of that?
There are fewer French men. :(
Meanwhile, in the bronze age? The man who hunts for food, knows all the local predators, knows all the sinkholes, knows how to hunt his terrain.
This study makes sense.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by inertnet on Tuesday December 04 2018, @03:57PM (3 children)
Wanted to say this too.
I thought, those scientists can't be that naive, when I read "individual female mobility" in TFS. Those women never had a say in those journeys.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @09:52PM
I can't wait until 3 or 4 graduating classes later when this this has turned into "See this was a vast womyn empire where the men stayed home looking at porn and the women were out having adventures, defeating invaders, trading, and handling political disputes."
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @02:08AM (1 child)
Women at least had the option to move. For men, it would mean near-certain death.
If you're a dude, and you wander over to a different tribe, WTF do you think is going to happen? You think you will be welcomed with open arms? You think they will share their hot babes with you? No. You're getting fucked with a spear.
If you're a hot babe, and you wander over to a different tribe, you will be strongly encouraged to stay. You'll have issues with the other ladies at first, but you'll gain power as kinship grows. When you are a grandma, cooperation with your children may even give you significant power.
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday December 05 2018, @03:34AM
I totally agree, but want to add some.
It probably means that overall society aggressiveness was lower those days. I mean there were not many men going to foreign lands in mass and raping everything in sight as became customary with more modern societies. Communities of stone and bronze age were likely safer. Note that we are usually told otherwise.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday December 05 2018, @03:36AM
For what it's worth, grooms are kidnapped too at the same rate but it doesn't make spicy news for you lot and it is still women who move. Something about it being about powerful families dominating powerless and agriculture and land being important and men being able to do more physical labor.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @03:21PM (1 child)
So, mail order brides?
https://yourbride.com/asian-brides-sites/ [yourbride.com]
https://www.russianbrides.com/mail-order-brides.htm [russianbrides.com]
https://www.internationallovescout.com/european-brides [internationallovescout.com]
https://brightbrides.net/australian-brides/ [brightbrides.net]
http://www.filipino-women.com/ [filipino-women.com]
https://mexicanbridesfinder.com/mexican-women-for-marriage/ [mexicanbridesfinder.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @11:04AM
I think back then the brides were only available through self-collection.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:24PM (4 children)
I submitted this in September 2017. lol...
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(Score: 5, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:45PM
Oh, come on, a year is nothing when we're talking Bronze Age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday December 04 2018, @08:18PM (2 children)
At least it is not an aristarchus submission, so there is that. You know, in the Bronze Age, news aggregation sites accepted more aristarchus submissions than takyon submissions, as we can tell from DNA sampling. But not so much in the Final Countdown Neolithic.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by takyon on Tuesday December 04 2018, @10:56PM (1 child)
Even my year old submission is better than your "fresh" loads.
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 05 2018, @12:29AM
This is what I love about SoylentNews, what makes it so much better than the "site which will not be named": fair and unbiased editors!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 04 2018, @03:54PM (4 children)
When all the chicks in the village are uglier than the north end of a southbound skunk, they have to go wandering to find guys stoned enough to want them. Or blind enough. Or whatever enough. Face it - who wants to marry a cousin who has a bigger, better mustache and beard than you can grow? Let Cousin Lucy wander off, and just wait around for something better to wander into your own village. And, that's a lot easier than going to some other village, and clubbing some dude to submit, and take Cousin Lucy off your hands. His cousin only looks marginally better than Lucy.
(Score: 2, Informative) by aiwarrior on Tuesday December 04 2018, @04:27PM (3 children)
Why is this troll? Its funny
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @08:21PM (1 child)
No, it's snot! It is Runaway! Misogynist Patriarchal Redneck attempts at humor are not funny. Rather like Fox News attempted knockoff of the Daily Show.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Wednesday December 05 2018, @06:42PM
Can you quote the mysoginistic part jesus. Are you even ok?
Please let me drink from your wisdom. You would find that most jokes are about stereotypes and it never hurt anybody. But i guess you must be funny at parties
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 05 2018, @12:37AM
There's a picture of me hanging on the wall at sensitivity school, with a sign. "Don't be this guy!"
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @08:50PM
If a strange man shows up in the village, he is a threat and is thus killed. He would know it in advance though, so he likely wouldn't try. Men stay safe in the village of their birth.
If a strange woman shows up in the village, she will be mostly welcome. Some of the other women might not be too happy. The men might fight over her. Somebody with power and influence will probably claim her. In time, by having children and grandchildren, she will obtain power.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday December 04 2018, @09:44PM
I try to avoid exercise as much as possible. Which is why I look& feel so young -- I save my Energy. And "woman on top" is great for that. You can fall asleep after without rolling over. PERFECTO!!!