Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was centered around women, a study said.

“This tells us that husbands moved to join their wives’ communities upon marriage, with land potentially passed down through the female line. It’s relatively rare in modern societies, but this might ...

DNA extracted from skeletal remains of 57 people buried in Iron Age cemeteries near Durotrigian sites showed signs of matrilocality, the scientists report January 15 in Nature.Analyses of ...

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Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by studying ancient and modern DNA.

Researchers said their findings suggest husbands relocated to the wife's household upon marriage – suggesting a female ...

Women led early British society 2,000 years ago, archaeologists find. Findings suggest in some parts of early British society husbands moved to join their wives ...

And while modern historians have tended to distrust these ancient Roman accounts as over-exaggerated and inaccurate, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA suggests that women really were the big ...

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-centered Celtic society unearthed in 2,000-year-old cemetery. DNA analysis indicates that a Celtic tribe in Iron Age Britain was matrilocal, meaning men relocated to live with women’s ...

Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — unlike previous eras of prehistory. Accessibility links.