Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women
Genetic analysis of people buried in a 2000-year-old cemetery in southern England has bolstered the idea that Celtic communities in Britain placed women centre-stage, showing that women remained in their ancestral homes while men moved in from other communities – a practice that lasted centuries.
at Trinity College Dublin and her colleagues have now analysed the genomes of 55 Durotrigan individuals from Winterborne Kingston to untangle how they were related to one another and other Iron Age populations from Britain and Europe.Sign up to newsletter “My jaw dropped at that moment,” says Cassidy. “This was a clear signature of matrilocality, or husbands moving to live with their wives’ families – a pattern we’d never seen before in prehistoric Europe.” Patrilocality, in which a woman moves to her male partner’s community, is usually the norm.
In modern societies, matrilocality has been associated with higher female involvement in food production, higher paternity uncertainty and protracted male absence. In such societies, it is the man who migrates into a new community as a relative stranger and depends on his partner’s family for his livelihood.
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