The Godsibb Network: The Spread of Signs with the Spread of Humans

This paper is the humanities companion to Architecture of Choice, which modelled the Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck as the genetic shadow of a female-led household order: women moving along trade routes between households, men staying, knowledge held and carried by women. If such a network existed, it should have left signs of itself. This paper tests that expectation against a census of geometric signs in the world's rock art, built from public sources under a settled schema: presence by area for the full inventory, exact counts only where a source counts, and every percentage taken on a whole total that includes the unresolved. Six signs meet the standard for a printed claim — cupules, hands, dots, crosshatch, circles, and zigzag — each graded at the strength of its evidence. The paper prints its failures beside its findings: a first placement pass did not confirm the expectation that production signs cluster at cave mouths, and a commissioned count of circle interiors did not carry the mechanism first proposed for them. What cannot be quantified is reserved, entire, for the separate work on the sign system that this census prepares. A second half follows the same network into the household — milk, marriage and the ledger — where the record shows matches facilitated rather than contracted, and consent as the system's working mechanism.