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To: Carolyn who wrote (161114)3/18/2006 5:49:51 PM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793842
 
In many early societies (a prime example is Egyptian), power/inheritance of the throne passed through the female - simply because there was never any doubt about who was the mother

Even in matrilineal societies, marriage is universal. A bastard in Egypt was still a bastard - somewhere in between the kinship system, an unknown quantity.

Derek