I was only using the term 'feminist' as shorthand for 'societies where women are equally respected.'

I wasn't suggesting that the 20th century political entity known as the feminist movement was around way back then!

Anyway, my alarms go off anytime I hear someone mistake their assumptions for evidence.

Well as one who trogs through the news most days, I read she was a pornographic piece of neckware, that presumably males wore beneath their 'cloaks' on a string, she had'nt got a head but had two rings for attachment....

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090513/full/news.2009.473.html
(that link is respectable)

there again today someone was speculating in the news that homo sapiens polished off the neanderthals by eating them.. mind you he had only found one piece of evidence to support it!....