British Iron Age burial grounds reveal women had power
Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a more uncivilized society. However, this genetic and skeletal evidence implies that women were likely influential and could have been shaping group identity through matrilineal lines.
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Females dominated in Iron Age Britain: Husbands moved in, wives inherited landA new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.
The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements ...
Ancient DNA analysis has revealed that an Iron Age community in Dorset, England, was centered around bonds of female-line ...
Real authority behind most decision-making rested with female leaders such as Boudica, say academics ...
Iron Age cemeteries with well-preserved burials ... Two of the earliest recorded rulers were queens—Boudica and Cartimandua—who commanded armies. "It's been suggested that the Romans ...
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In Ancient Britain, men would leave their home to live with their wivesA groundbreaking study of the Durotriges tribe in Iron Age Britain reveals that women played central roles in their society.
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