Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age ...
3 days ago · Using ancient DNA analysis and testing, a team led by Dr Lara Cassidy and Professor Daniel Bradley from Trinity College Dublin successfully demonstrated that iron age people who were buried in ...
Genetics Rewrite History: Ancient Britain’s Iron Age Women Held …
4 days ago · A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands relocating to live within their wives’ communities. ... The researchers sampled DNA from a site near the village of Winterborne Kingston, nicknamed “Duropolis”, which archaeologists from Bournemouth University have ...
Iron Age DNA Reveals Women Dominated Pre-Roman Britain
Jan 16, 2025 · Iron Age DNA Reveals Women Dominated Pre-Roman Britain 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 buried together in southern England and uncovered strong evidence of female-line descent.
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain
Jan 15, 2025 · An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain. Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women remarkable1.
Land and wealth in Celtic Britain centred on women - DNA analysis
Jan 15, 2025 · DNA analysis suggests Iron Age societies in Britain were built around women rather than men.
Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age ...
One hundred eight human skeletal elements excavated at the archeological site of Ashkelon, Israel by the Leon Levy Expedition during 1997 to 2016 were sampled and screened for the presence of human aDNA (28 from the Bronze Age, 8 from the Iron Age I, …
Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women
Jan 15, 2025 · Archaeologists from Bournemouth University teamed up with geneticists from Trinity College Dublin to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, finding evidence of female political and social empowerment.
Women were at the centre of social networks in Iron Age Britain
Jan 15, 2025 · Figure 1 | Women anchored Celtic communities. a, Cassidy et al. 1 analysed DNA from 55 individuals buried at Winterborne Kingston, an Iron Age burial site dating from 100 bc to ad 100. The site is ...
Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age
Dec 22, 2021 · To understand this, here we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Britain by 12-fold, and western and central...
Ancient DNA from graves reveals "jaw-dropping" discovery about Iron Age …
Jan 16, 2025 · 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.