Reddit reviews Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

You'll hear a lot of Joseph Campbell (the Masks of God series was my favorite)...and maybe even Carl Jung (...along that line consider Erich Neumann, The Origin and History of Consciousness and M. Esther Harding, Psychic Energy, Its sources and its transformations); but, may I suggest three books you've probably never heard of before:

1. Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture;
   
   
2. de Santilliana & von Dechen, Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth --a very difficult read but very well worth it; and
   
   
3. Chris Knight, Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture.
   
   These studies not only provide flesh for the body of myth that acts as a verbal echo of our nascent cultural memory, but also provides a framework for the work that those myths did in their original context, i.e., mitigating the sexual dynamics of our species and accounting for the observed regularity--naturally, first noticed by women, those avatars of language, which is to say, the hands that rock the cradle--between the cycles in the heavens and the female reproductive system...a happenstance that Marija Gimbutas has suggested that led to our earliest "gods," i.e., woman as a creative force.

This is such an odd trend in anthropology as a whole. They essentially try to make the argument as follows:

"Hey everybody, thousands of years ago women ruled the Earth, not men! And the Earth was so much better back then and everyone was equal and happy and free!"

9 times out of 10 they're just using this as a way to promote their ideological bias and purposely either leave crucial facts about early humans out or twist it in a way where it doesn't seem important.

http://www.chrisknight.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/Early-Human-Kinship-Was-Matrilineal1.pdf

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Relations-Menstruation-Origins-Culture/dp/0300063083/256-1882770-1332012?ie=UTF8&qid=1189877836&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=8-1

How can you even say that periods were the start of human culture? Because the moonlight aligns with the period of when women are menstruating? What pseudo-spiritual nonsense is this?

You can't pinpoint a start of human culture from a biological function that only women have access to.