In this Iron Age society, husbands moved in with their wives' families, not other way around
Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn’t surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near ...
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Iron Age societies were more progressive than most, including modern times
New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and ...
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DNA Analysis Reveals Celtic Age Women Were the Original ‘Iron Ladies’, Husbands Moved to Live In With Wife’s Community
DNA Analysis Reveals Celtic Age Women Were the Original ‘Iron Ladies’, Husbands Moved to Live In With Wife’s Community An ...
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Women were at the center of iron age Britain. New find reminds us how misogyny has shaped our view of the past
That is, the men came to live with the women's family, who stayed in the same location for generations. When the authors ...
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Why was an Iron Age woman buried with a folding knife driven into the ground?
Similar women's graves with knives and needles from the late Iron Age and early Viking Age have been found in southern Sweden, including at the Fiskeby burial ground, suggesting a possible ritual ...
Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology
A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient ...
Ancient DNA suggests women were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain
Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. An examination of ...
Genetics Rewrite History: Ancient Britain’s Iron Age Women Held the Keys To Power
A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...
Ancient burials reveal ‘remarkable’ women-dominated society in UK. ‘Relatively rare’
The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements, including a site near Dorset nicknamed “Duropolis” by the archaeologists ...
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Archaeologists Say New DNA Evidence Unveils an Iron Age Matriarchal Mystery
Now, a team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Bournemouth University have discovered ...
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Scientists discover matrilineal societies in Iron Age Britain, revealing women’s central roles in power and family
A groundbreaking study has uncovered evidence of a society in Iron Age Britain where women played central roles in family, politics, and society. Using DNA from ancient burial sites, an international ...
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Society centred around women in UK during Iron Age: scientists
Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said ...