No you don't understand this is literally SO exciting 🤩
This research suggests that wealth and lands were passed down the female line, and instead of women leaving to join their new husband's family, the exact opposite was true.
This research suggests that wealth and lands were passed down the female line, and instead of women leaving to join their new husband's family, the exact opposite was true.
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Dr Rachel Pope
This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/15/iron-age-men-left-home-join-wives-families-dna-study-reveals
The scientists believe that the communities also invested a lot in their daughters as they would probably inherit their mother's status."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20g7j707g8o?sfnsn=scwspwa
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/01/15/celtic-society-women-iron-age-britain/