Matriarchy, Patriarchy and Beaker Culture

Frequent commenter Ukviewer has made some interesting suggestions regarding the authenticity of the presence of a female archdruid here at Husborne Crawley.  In particular he cites the attached website, which suggests that the Beaker People were patriarchal.

There are many points I could make in response.  One obvious comment being that you shouldn't believe that everything that you read on the Internet is true.  That Cranmer, for example.  I've got a feeling he's not really a 16th century archbishop at all.  Not least because if that Cranmer really was alive and blogging, Rowan wouldn't have a job, would he?  The second is that you particularly should never believe articles that do not tell you who their references are.  For a website simply to state as a "fact" that the Beaker People were patriarchal, and to do so without referring to published sources, an Archaeological journal or famous archaeologists such as Tony Robinson, simply means it can't be trusted.
The Beaker People had female archdruids, and you can trust me on this.  Their task was particularly onerous as we know that the Beaker Males were into drinking and fighting.  Therefore the archdruids had a terrible time, trying to drag hungover or unfortunately dismembered male Beaker People to sunrise rituals and wicker man burnings.  Which makes me think that nothing changes really.
But what does this use of men for fighting, and metalwork in the case of the so-called "Amesbury Archer", tell us?  Tells us that men were disposable, doesn't it? So we know who was actually in charge.  While the men were out trying to steal La Tene wear, some of them coming home in a Celtic ambulance, the women were busy lighting neolithic tea lights and planning the next cairn-building ceremony.  In any case, I have my own theory.  Isotopic analysis on the guy's teeth shows that he was from Central Europe and he had accumulated great wealth through having superior skills than the locals.  So I think we was probably a plumber.

We do know that there were other gender differences.  For example,  females were buried in disc* barrows, while the males were in bell barrows.  Naturally.  So the men were all "look who's got the biggest barrow" while the women lay gently, at one with their surroundings.  As I said, nothing really changes.

In any case, I would point out than an interest in concepts such as "matriarchy" and "patriarchy" shows an obsession with status and that other -archy, hier-archy.  This whole social-pyramid attitude to life is so modernist.  By contrast, the Beaker Folk from 2,500 BC to the present day have gone in for altogether much flatter structures - more gentle, less structured, more organic ways of being community.  Basically, what I say goes and they can all lump it.

*Stonehenge is regarded as a prehistoric computer, so the women who designed it (leaving the men to the heavy job of dragging the stones around) can fairly be called the world's first computer programmers.  No doubt in recognition of their achievements they were buried in disk barrows.