23 março 2017

Ancient DNA Yields Unprecedented Insights into Mysterious Chaco Civilization

Ancient DNA Yields Unprecedented Insights into Mysterious Chaco Civilization:

historygirl1984:

historical-nonfiction:

The results suggest that a maternal “dynasty” ruled the society’s greatest mansion for more than 300 years, but concerns over research ethics cast a shadow on the technical achievement.

Why is dynasty in quotation marks? Because it was maternal? Because if it was a paternal, you know they wouldn’t have done that shit.

The word “dynasty” is in quotations because they left no name, no written records, no oral history. The concept of a dynasty might be completely alien to how this high-status maternal line thought of themselves. Using quotations was intended to be respectful. However, my apologies to anyone who was upset about my punctuation.

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