Ancient DNA suggests women were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain
Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men ...
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Females dominated in Iron Age Britain: Husbands moved in, wives inherited land
A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.
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Women led early British society 2,000 years ago, archaeologists find
China proceeds smoothly Researchers then compared the ancient DNA from Britain with other European sites such as France, the Netherlands, and Czechia, spanning over 6,000 years. They could gain ...
The ancient tomb that could solve Britain’s grave problem
Andrew Murray Threipland unbolts a heavy iron yett (a latticed gate), and we walk in single file down the passage to the ...
Ancient DNA Reveals Women Central to Celtic Britain's Social Networks
New genetic evidence suggests that female family ties were central to social structures in pre-Roman Britain, offering a fresh perspective on Celtic society and its gender dynamics.
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 ...
British Iron Age burial grounds reveal women had power
Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a ...
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Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centered on women
They retrieved over 50 ancient genomes from a set of burial grounds ... They sifted through data from prior genetic surveys of Iron Age Britain and, although sample numbers from other cemeteries ...
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Ancient DNA suggests women were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain
An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in ... Credit: AP/Chris Moody Archaeologists studying grave sites in Britain and Europe have previously only detected the opposite pattern ...