How Copper Smelters Accidentally Sparked the Birth of the Iron Age #Science #Archaeology #History hashtag1: #IronAge hashtag2: #CopperSmelting hashtag3: #AncientTechnology
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How Copper Smelters Accidentally Sparked the Birth of the Iron Age #Science #Archaeology #History hashtag1: #IronAge hashtag2: #CopperSmelting hashtag3: #AncientTechnology
https://purescience.news/article?id=959737

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: Women’s graves unearthed in Dorset point to an #IronAge society in Britain where women wielded quite a lot of influence.
`The DNA analysis also indicates that most of the ancestral line could be traced back to a single woman.
The work indicates that this society was what is known as matrilocal - meaning that a married man moved to live in his wife's community.
"The most sort of obvious benefit to a woman is that if you don't leave home, you don't leave your support network. Your parents, siblings, family members are all still around you," says Dr Cassidy.
"It's your husband who's coming in, he's the relative stranger to the community, and he's dependent on your family for his livelihood and land," she adds.
The researchers found the same matrilocality evidence in bones from other cemeteries including in Cornwall and Yorkshire.
She says that evidence of powerful women in ancient communities has often been dismissed an a one-off, not the norm, but these findings challenge that thinking.
Archaeologists Prof Miles Russell and Prof Martin Smith found other evidence that women had high status.`
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g7j707g8o
Caption: The skeletons of people from the Durotriges tribe were very well-preserved
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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: Women’s graves unearthed in Dorset point to an #IronAge society in Britain where women wielded quite a lot of influence.
`It is the first time this evidence of communities being built around women has been documented in ancient European history.
The scientists believe that the communities also invested a lot in their daughters as they would probably inherit their mother's status.
"It's relatively rare in modern societies, but this might not always have been the case," says Dr Cassidy.
The team found evidence that it happened in numerous places in Britain, suggesting it was widespread.
The communities analysed lived around the same time as Boudica, the warrior Queen who led a rebellion against Roman invaders in East Anglia around AD 61.
Dr Cassidy sequenced DNA taken from the bones of 57 individuals from a tribe called the Durotriges. The people lived in Winterborne Kingston, Dorset around 100 BC to AD 100.
The skeletons were dug up from a cemetery by a team of archaeologists at Bournemouth University.
By tracing mitochondrial DNA, which is only passed on by women, Dr Cassidy found that most women in the community were related by blood dating back generations.
By contrast, there was a lot of diversity in the Y chromosomes, which is passed from father to son, indicating that men from lots of different families married into the community.`
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g7j707g8o
Caption: The archaeologists were delighted to find skeletons so well-preserved in the clay soil in Dorset
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