Kenneth Edwin Sloan

The patriarchy has not been with us forever despite those who make that claim for it. There is solid archaeological evidence that prior to the late neolithic period (around 2500 B.C.E.) human communities were generally egalitarian or matriarchal and had been for at least 30,000 years. But then a combination of environmental and social forces drove a dramatic change: men became the masters and the lawgivers and repressed any resistance to their dominion...