For the last century, historians, anthropologists and other scholars have searched both human history and the continents to find a matriarchy—a society where the power was in the hands of women, not

One of the most persistent claims of feminist historians who concentrate in ancient and pre-historic societies has been the rebuttal of a possibility to a matriarchal society anytime in the distant past.

Matriarchy (also gynecocracy) refers to a gynecocentric  form of society, in which the leading role is taken by the women and especially by the mothers of a community.[1] There are no known

The term Matriarchy is a reproduction from that 19. Century and corresponds etymologically to designations such as monarchy, hierarchy, patriarchy, etc. (From Greek mêtêr “mother” and archê “beginning, origin”, later also “rule”).