Rogue 4 Gay, The story you linked on the history of patriarchy has 1 clap - not a very compelling piece of academic evidence.
Patriarchy is a socially stratified, dominance hierarchy based social system that has more aspects to it than just male domination of women, although that is a central aspect, it isn't the only one.
Patriarchy is a socio/political system based on the maintenance of traditional power via intimidation. It is a dominance-based hierarchy that emerged with the Agricultural Revolution, although there are most likely other elements that also came into play related to growing populations, possible natural disasters, etc.
So what happened to cause such a profound shift in the human psyche away from egalitarianism? The balance of archaeological, anthropological and genomic data suggests the answer lies in the agricultural revolution, which began roughly 10,000 years ago.
What we do know is that the primary socio/political organization of most human cultures changed drastically at this time, about 6–9 k years ago. Power differentials between men and women are only one aspect of this social system, and evidence of some power differentials in a culture is not on its own necessarily a marker of patriarchy, but that’s another story.
This new social system spread and overtook egalitarian enclaves, not because it was a better system, but because it caused a fair amount of social disruption.
