SOCSCI 2O03 Lecture Notes - Caveman, Wonton, Cave Painting
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Believed people loved in hordes prior to civilization. Much like the hordes of the primate relatives these hordes of persons had a dominate male and he enjoyed sexual access to all females. The dominant female denied sexual gratification to the younger males who were subordinate. Eventually the younger males conspired against the dominant male and killed him (rationally that would be their father) Once the young males killed the older males the orgy began. The caveman" period image women being slaves. Wr said certainly that there was male dominance. There was this taken for granted reality that the men were in power. The question was how did it get that way. What the wr believed evolved in this period was that the men observed women. They noticed that women were nice to have around. All of a sudden some women would get bigger and bigger and all of sudden they had a child. The women had the ability to excersize.