I’ve read “Amazons” were strictly Greek myth and if so I apologize. But did any strictly warrior women, or tribes run/governed by mostly women ever exist, anywhere?
It's been suggested that the Greek myth of the Amazons may have been based in part on contact with Scythia by traders/colonists in the Black Sea.
There is solid archaeological evidence that Scythian women occupied the same military and leadership roles as men, but no evidence of the mythical amazonian matriarchal society that's carried into modern popular culture. The evidence in question is largely from burial sites with some women having identical burial goods and patterns to men, adorned with arms, armour, and symbols of leadership.
I'm on night shift and my battery is dying, this is the first source I can find on a cursory search, perhaps someone can assist with a source of the burials in question, or else I'll try to dig it up ^((heh)) a bit later.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/arsc-aft122519.php