From these facts and from the general structure of Shang religion it has been concluded that there was a strong matrilinear strain in Shang culture.
Although this cannot be proved, it seems quite plausible because we know of matrilinear societies in the South of China at later times.
But are we sure that there is only one type of matrilinear succession?
Rose argues that the existence of the worship of a mother goddess must not be taken as evidence of matrilinear succession, and were this the only detail on which we could rely, I would readily admit that the evidence was too slight.
This is undoubtedly true, and no reasonable claim can be made that this particular form of matrilinear succession obtained in Minoan Greece.
Rivers, who told me that it was his opinion that several types of matrilinear succession had probably existed and that he had found evidence of two in Melanesian society.
Her consort was sometimes unknown and, in a matrilinear society, unimportant.
The northern blond communities alone appear, on the available evidence, to have had no gentile or tribal institutions, whethermatrilinear or patriarchal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "matrilinear" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
