Tag #Kinship

What does the genetic evidence from the Dorset cemetery reveal about the social structure of Celtic Britain before the Roman invasion?

A new genetic study of a late Iron Age cemetery in Dorset, England, reveals that two-thirds of the individuals shared a single maternal lineage, indicating a matrilocal social structure where women remained in their birth communities while men came from elsewhere. This challenges previous understandings of European prehistory, where patrilocality was more common.