yup. next to no matrilineal societies in agricultural populations. the minute someone has to plow, you get a patrilineal system, or so it seems. same w/cattle herding (see above tweet). also, little to no matrilineal systems in H-Gs. some nw pacific pops are matrilineal, but...
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...those're the ones that are based on (salmon) fishing, so they were sedentary, kinda echoing horticultural societies.
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