Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Rulers of Bronze Age Iberia: The Argaric Culture" video.

Arguing that women were in charge of society because they owned pretty things is silly. Men in this region even today give their wives nice things including gold rings, pearl necklaces, and gem-studded jewelry. It is far more likely that the men, who had the swords and muscles to use them, simply loved their wives and children.
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If a large portion of the town happened to be related and if daughters had to be sent far away for marriage, it is more than likely the overall population of the kingdom was tiny. I.E. The community lived on the hill and went into the valley to farm, no real industrial/trade centers.
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@DanDavisHistory Most of the Indians were concentrated in villages of 1,000-5,000 for practical reasons, why would these guys be any different? A region of continuous settlement should have been able to support major metropolises rather than fortress-houses for the king and his friends/employees. And you mentioned that early on northerners came in and killed/drove off most of the men and married most of the women, which is virtually impossible in a state of any significant size. And there was a lot of cousin marriages at that time in Greece for the same reasons. As Thucydides said, populations were small enough that sometimes entire states migrated all at once.
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