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Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain
A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient ...
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Iron Age Britain: Women Central, DNA Confirms Archaeology
A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient DNA analysis and ...
Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology
A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient ...
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Iron Age societies were more progressive than most, including modern times
New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and ...
Genetics Rewrite History: Ancient Britain’s Iron Age Women Held the Keys To Power
A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...
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Scientists discover matrilineal societies in Iron Age Britain, revealing women’s central roles in power and family
A groundbreaking study has uncovered evidence of a society in Iron Age Britain where women played central roles in family, politics, and society. Using DNA from ancient burial sites, an international ...
Women were at the center of iron age Britain. New find reminds us how misogyny has shaped our view of the past
Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written ...
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Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of First Women-Led Society in Europe
Archaeologists discovered evidence of the women-led society in Europe at a rare Iron Age site in southwest England.
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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 ...
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 ...
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Ancient burials reveal ‘remarkable’ women-dominated society in UK. ‘Relatively rare’
The Iron Age burials of powerful women revealed land ... Female tribal leaders Cartimandua and Boudica became legends, leading uprisings that destroyed Roman towns and challenged the authority ...