Researchers: Female Family Ties Important to Social Networks — VOA Learning English
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A recent study suggests that female family ties were central to social networks in ancient Celtic society before the Roman invasion.
Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in Britain shows that women were closely related. At the same time, unrelated men were more likely to come into the community from other places, likely after marriage.
For the study, researchers examined ancient DNA from 57 burial places in Dorset in southwestern England. People used the cemetery from around 2100 years ago to around 1800 years ago.
The results showed that two-thirds of the individuals descended from a single maternal lineage.
Lara Cassidy of Trinity College Dublin was one of the study’s co-writers.…
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