Headline, March 14 2025/ PREHISTORY : ''' STRONG WOMEN STRUMS * '''

PREHISTORY : 

''' STRONG WOMEN STRUMS * '''

CARTIMANDUA AND BOUDICCA - EARLY female leaders in Britain, demonstrated that women could reach the highest levels of power, commanding armies and heading tribes.

MATRIARCHAL SWAY : FROM ANCIENT ENGLAND - EVIDENCE of a very strong line of women.

A tantalizing vision of a women-centric society has emerged from an ancient cemetery in the countryside of southwest England.

Whereas women commonly left home to join their husbands' 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 that are 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 in the journal Nature.

'' I was not expecting such a strong signature of matrilocality,'' said Lara Cassidy, an assistant professor of genetics at Trinity College, Dublin, who led the study.

'' When that came out of the data, it was a bit of a shock.''

'' But 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," she added.

The liberties of Celtic women have been a hot topic for thousands of years, Roman writers were scandalized by reports of their sexual freedoms, which included taking multiple husbands.

Cartimandua and Boudicca, early female leaders in Britain, demonstrated that women could reach the  highest levels of power, commanding armies and heading tribes.

Archaeological evidence also hints at flexible gender dynamics that varied widely depending on local traditions.

For instance, Celtic women were sometimes buried with luxurious grave goods, like jewelry and mirrors, a marker of high status.

Patrilocality, whereby women live with their in-laws, is far more culturally-common, but female centric societies are not as unheard of as they were even a decade ago.

'' It's a generational paradigm shift,'' said Rachel Pope, an associate professor in European prehistory at the University of Liverpool in England with expertise in matrilocality who was not involved in the study.

'' It's partly a trend in archaeology more generally, where we have returned to data and material evidence to lead narrative, rather than imposing narratives that confirm our biases.

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