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Powerful women ruled Britain’s Iron Age, 2,000-year-old DNA reveals
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukA new study has revealed that women inherited land in Iron Age Britain and husbands moved to live with their wife’s community.
A team of geneticists made the discovery by analysing the DNA from a set of burial grounds in Dorset which date back to the Roman conquest of AD43.
After examining 50 genomes from the remains, the team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin working with archaeologists from Bournemouth University found that the community was centred around a female line of descent.
The study, published in the journal Nature, says that this is the first time such a female-centric order – where women stayed in their ancestral communities after marriage and men were mobile – has been found from European prehistory.
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