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New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and ...

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LAND was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain and husbands moved to live with their wife’s community, according to a new study. A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin ...

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Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

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Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and matrilocal, with women holding status and influence. A study published ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that ...

Women were at the centre of social networks in Iron Age British Celtic communities, research in this week’s Nature suggests. The analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals evidence for matrilocal Celtic ...

This pattern, known as matrilocality, where women remain in their native social networks and men marry in, is uncommon in history, challenging previous archaeological assumptions about Iron Age ...