A new genetic analysis of the burial chamber of a complex prehistoric society known as the Chacoans in New Mexico has found that elite status was passed down through the maternal line from 800-1130AD.
The Chacoans - one of North America’s earliest complex societies - are particularly difficult to study because they did not use a written language.
'Pueblo Bonito' is the largest of these great houses with over 800 rooms. Ancestral 'Pueblo' Native Americans, known as Chacoans, occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.
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If you read reports carefully, you will see that what they found is not a matriarchy, but a matrilineal ruling family. The men became the leaders, but were born to a line of related women, which gave the women power to some extent, but they did not serve as lone rulers.
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