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 relocating to live within their wives’ communities. This marks the first documented instance of such a system in European prehistory. An international team of geneticists, led by researchers from Trinity College Dublin, collaborated with archaeologists from Bournemouth [...]

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