This looks really exciting: the best data on the #matrilocal tendency of African hunter-gatherers

The History Files: Durotriges Cemetery

#Durotriges Cemetery: an #IronAge #cemetery in use about 100 BC-AD 100 held 55 related individuals who belonged to a society which was unusual for its time - a #matrilocal society.

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#history #historyfiles #archaeology #britain #ancientbritain #celts #prydein

Celtic tribe's DNA points to female empowerment in pre-Roman Britain Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women

Female-focused #Kinship in Iron Age #Europe...

“This is very exciting new research & is revolutionising how we understand prehistoric society. (...) What we are learning is that the nature of #society in Europe before the #Romans was really very different.”

#Culture #Community #Matrilocal

Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests Study highlights role of women in Celtic Britain and challenges assumptions most societies were patrilocal

Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests

#matrilineal #matrilocal #Rematriation

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Women were at the centre of social networks in Iron Age Britain Matrilocal societies in Iron Age Britain.

#women #Britain #IronAge #feminism #socialnetworks #matrilocal #ancienthistory