Definition. The patriarchs of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac’s son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites. These three figures are referred to collectively as the patriarchs, and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal age.

“Matrilineal” means kinship is passed down through the maternal line. The Akans of Ghana, West Africa, are Matrilineal. Akans are the largest ethnic group in Ghana….List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies.

Patriarchy

Ram Mohan Roy

William Henry Sleeman

Patala or Nagaloka, is the lowest realm and the region of the Nagas, ruled by Vasuki. Here live several Nagas with many hoods.

Many Hindu philosophies mention that the creation is cyclic. In Hindu cosmology, age of earth is about 4,years (one day of Brahma that is 1000 times of sum of 4 yugas in years, the creator or kalpa) and is then destroyed by fire or water elements.

The “Clovis first theory” refers to the 1950s hypothesis that the Clovis culture represents the earliest human presence in the Americas, beginning about 13,000 years ago; evidence of pre-Clovis cultures has accumulated since 2000, pushing back the possible date of the first peopling of the Americas to 33,000 years ago.

Lucy (Australopithecus)

about 300,000 years