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Ancient Celtic tribe had women at its social center
Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — unlike previous eras of prehistory.
"For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, "societies were centered around ties of kinship, so you're deciding whose family you're going to live with." This is why Cassidy and her colleagues were surprised to find remains of a Celtic tribe that lived during the Iron Age in Britain from around 100 BCE to 100 CE where it appeared, after studying their DNA, that women were at the center of their social network. Cassidy was eager to collaborate on studying the remains of the Iron Age burial site of a Celtic tribe called the Durotriges dating from about 100 BCE to 100 CE in what is now southern England.
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