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🏛️🧬 Researchers found that the Durotriges tribe of ancient #Dorset practiced a social system called matrilocality.

Their analysis of 50 ancient genomes shows that women stayed within their home communities while men moved to join their wives' families. The discovery supports historical accounts of powerful British queens and implies that land and status were inherited through maternal lines.

👉 https://www.historyhit.com/were-iron-age-women-the-true-rulers-of-britain/

💁🏻‍♀️✨ BBC Knowledge Explainer: DNA https://seethis.tv/post/bbc-knowledge-explainer-dna

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Were Iron Age Women the True Rulers of Britain?

For centuries, our vision of Iron Age Britain was forged in a “Celtic” trope of hyper-masculine warrior elites ruling from the ramparts...

History Hit
Mar 27 at 4:30pmWeb
Show threadCrystal20h ago
@tksst
Would this possibly be the origin of the old expression: A son is a son until he takes a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
Show threadmespique19h ago

@tksst

I mean, matrilineage is much easier to prove than patrilineage...