Radical Anthropology on Nostr: Well interesting, #matrilocality of the Durotriges people: 'In southern Britain, the ...
Well interesting, #matrilocality of the Durotriges people:
'In southern Britain, the Late Iron Age Durotriges tribe often buried women with substantial grave goods. Here we analyse 57 ancient genomes from Durotrigian burial sites and find an extended kin group centred around a single maternal lineage, with unrelated (presumably inward migrating) burials being predominantly male. Such a matrilocal pattern is undescribed in European prehistory, but when we compare mitochondrial haplotype variation among European archaeological sites spanning six millennia, British Iron Age cemeteries stand out as having marked reductions in diversity'
#archaeology #IronAge #kinship #genome #mtDNA
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08409-6
'In southern Britain, the Late Iron Age Durotriges tribe often buried women with substantial grave goods. Here we analyse 57 ancient genomes from Durotrigian burial sites and find an extended kin group centred around a single maternal lineage, with unrelated (presumably inward migrating) burials being predominantly male. Such a matrilocal pattern is undescribed in European prehistory, but when we compare mitochondrial haplotype variation among European archaeological sites spanning six millennia, British Iron Age cemeteries stand out as having marked reductions in diversity'
#archaeology #IronAge #kinship #genome #mtDNA
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08409-6