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 | | The evidence suggests that during these times, 10,000 to 4,000 BCE, cultures exhibited respect, if not outright reverence, for women and their role in society (with some local and temporally circumscribed exceptions), throughout the alleged zone of the Neolithic Revolution. |
 | | By the middle of the millennium, 7,500 BCE, Jericho was abandoned, due to growing aridity, and again resettled in 7,350 BCE, with the "onset of wetter conditions." This was the early Neolithic pattern, prior to the creation of the first large, river-based city states in the fourth millennium. |
 | | Citing Mellarts work at Catal Hüyük as supplying the first evidence of Goddess-based agriculture in 6,500 BCE (older levels are now being explored by his student and successor, Ian Hodder), the origins of sedentary, Goddess-based agricultural civilization endured for not less than 5,000 yearsroughly the age of patriarchal civilization today. |
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