The debate of whether or not the Amazon women warriors actually existed has been going on for many, many years now and people are still skeptical on what is the truth and what is coincidence. It is hard to say if these women existed or not, considering the extremely small evidence archaeologists have founded, but, as you will see in this essay, I do believe these women warriors were real people and they were real warriors, even if many historians believe otherwise. Multiple people, men to be more exact, have tried to explain the origin of these women warriors, including Johann Jakob Bachofen, but his theory just do not explain it adequately enough to deem accurate. Bachofen claimed, in his 1861 thesis Das Mutterrecht (which translates to ˜Mother Right'), that the Amazon women were not a myth, but a fact, and stated humanity started out under the rule of just women and only switched to patriarchy when civilization began. He believed women "only know of the physical life, and could not continue to rule due to the fact that they were merely women." But the thing is, with his thesis, there was not one piece of evidence to support it, much like almost every other theory of the Amazon women. Historians and others who have studied these women warriors liked to pretend they knew what they were talking about, when, in fact, they had no clue, they were just basing their theories on other theories for the most part. The trail of finding out if the Amazons truly existed seemed to grow cold up until the early 1990's where a U.S.-Russian team of archaeologists made the amazing discovery while they were digging up burial mounds outside of Pokrovka. While they found 150 or some graves that belonged to the Sarmatians, there were a few graves in particular that were extraordinary, especially for the evidence of women warriors. These graves were women who were buried with not only ordinary female objects but with weapons such as bronze-tipped arrows a