A new analysis shows a new analysis in the heart of the social network at the Celtic Society in Britain before the Roman invasion.
A late genetic evidence from a late Iron era cemetery suggests that women were closely related, while unrelated men were tend to enter the community from elsewhere after marriage.
An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 tombs in the Dorset in Southwest England suggests that two-thirds of people landed from the same mother dynasty. The cemetery was used from about 100 BC to 200 AD
Lara Cassidi, co-writer at a geneticist study, a geneticist of Trinity College Dublin, said, “It was actually leaving the jaw-it had never been seen before in European prehthet.”
Conclusion, published on Wednesday In journal natureSuggest that women live in the same circles throughout their lives – maintaining social networks and inheriting or managing land and property.
/ AP
Meanwhile, “This is your husband who is coming as a relative stranger, depending on a wife’s family for land and livelihood,” Cassidi said.
This pattern – called matriarchy – is historically rare.
“Such a matrical pattern has been unwanted in European prehthas, but when we compare mitochondrial haplotype variation among the European archaeological sites of six millenniums, the cemetery of the British Iron Age stands out as a decrease in the variety inspired by the presence of the head of the Iron Edge,” The author writes In an article with studies.
Archaeologists studying tomb sites in Britain and Europe have first detected only the opposite pattern-women leave their homes to join the group of family’s family-in other ancient time periods, from Neolithic to Early Medieval Era, from the Max Plank Institute in Germany, said Guido Ganechi Roskone said, which was not part of the study.
Cassidi stated that in the study of pre-industrial societies from around 1800 to the present, anthropologist found that men joined the houses of the expanded family of their wives.
But archaeologists already knew that the iron era was something special about the role of women in Britain. A patchwork of tribes with closely related languages and art styles – sometimes referred to as Celtic – 43 AD lived in England before the Roman invasion in valuable objects, have been found buried with Celtic women, and Roman writers including Julius Caesar have written with Roman writers about their relative freedom and fighting.
The pattern of strong female kinship connections that researchers found that women also served in formal positions of political power, called Matrisatta.
But it suggests that women had some control of land and property, as well as strong social support, made the UK’s Celtic society “more egalitarian than the Roman world”, “said Miles Russell, a study co-writer and archaeologist of archaeologists of Bornmouth University.
“When Roman arrived, he was amazed to find the women occupying the positions of power,” Russell said.
Some people suspected these accounts, “suggesting that Roman exaggerated the freedom of British women to portray an untouched society,” he told AFP.
“But archeology, and now genetics, means that women were influential in many areas of the life of the iron era,” he said.
“In fact, it is possible that the maternal lineage was the primary shaper of the group identity.”
Egens France-Press contributed to this report.
