{"id":20050,"date":"2025-01-15T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20050"},"modified":"2025-01-15T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:29:26","slug":"celtic-women-held-sway-in-matrilocal-societies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20050","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Women Held Sway in \u2018Matrilocal\u2019 Societies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An ancient cemetery reveals a Celtic tribe that lived in England 2,000 years ago and that was organized around maternal lineages, according to a DNA analysis.<\/p>\n

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A tantalizing vision of a women-centric society has emerged from an ancient cemetery in the bucolic countryside of southwest England.<\/p>\n

Whereas women commonly left home to join their husbands\u2019 families upon marriage, the Durotriges, a Celtic tribe that lived in Dorset 2,000 years ago, bucked the mold with a system called matrilocality, wherein women remained in their ancestral communities and men migrated for marriage.<\/p>\n

By analyzing the genomes of 57 Durotrigan people buried sometime from about 100 B.C. to A.D. 100, scientists found maternal lineages typical of matrilocality. This was the first time <\/strong>this system had been identified in European prehistory.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, individuals with ancestries unrelated to the dominant line were mostly men, suggesting that they had moved from other communities to live with the families of their wives, according to a study published<\/a> on Wednesday in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was not expecting such a strong signature of matrilocality,\u201d said Lara Cassidy, an assistant professor in genetics at Trinity College Dublin who led the study. \u201cWhen that came out of the data, it was a bit of a shock.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut upon reflection, if you look at what classical writers were talking about and if you look at the archaeological context, there are a lot of hints that women were able to attain high status in these societies,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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An ancient cemetery reveals a Celtic tribe that lived in England 2,000 years ago and that was organized around maternal lineages, according to a DNA analysis.A tantalizing vision of a women-centric society has emerged from an ancient cemetery in the bucolic countryside of southwest England.Whereas women commonly left home to join their husbands\u2019 families upon marriage, the Durotriges, a Celtic tribe that lived in Dorset 2,000 years ago, bucked the mold with a system called matrilocality, wherein women remained in their ancestral communities and men migrated for marriage.By analyzing the genomes of 57 Durotrigan people buried sometime from about 100 B.C. to A.D. 100, scientists found maternal lineages typical of matrilocality. This was the first time this system had been identified in European prehistory.Meanwhile, individuals with ancestries unrelated to the dominant line were mostly men, suggesting that they had moved from other communities to live with the families of their wives, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.\u201cI was not expecting such a strong signature of matrilocality,\u201d said Lara Cassidy, an assistant professor in genetics at Trinity College Dublin who led the study. \u201cWhen that came out of the data, it was a bit of a shock.\u201d\u201cBut upon reflection, if you look at what classical writers were talking about and if you look at the archaeological context, there are a lot of hints that women were able to attain high status in these societies,\u201d she added.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20052,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20053,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20050\/revisions\/20053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}