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Wotta surprise! Elaine Morgan dealt with the Tarzan theory beautifully in 1972 and in the rest of her Aquatic Ape books. Marvellous what adding the letter 'S' to the male pronoun does for probity of the previous macho mainderings.
Only the purblind could have viewed the Mother Goddess cultures which were universal, until the invention of swords, as merely a sidebar.
In the high Himalayas until the late 60s (when I saw them) there still existed matrinlineal societies in which one of the most important relics were women's frontpieces composed entirely of baby (milk) teeth by which they were valued and revered as descendants of excellent mothers.
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