Archaeological discovery places women front and centre of pre-Roman Britain

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A revolutionary genetic analysis has examined the remains of over 500 Iron Age people interred at burial sites in Yorkshire, uncovering evidence that their communities were centred around female lineages stretching back as many as nine generations.

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The research, conducted by Ian Armit at the University of York and colleagues, focused on individuals linked to the Arras culture who were laid to rest across several hundred years preceding the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43.

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Nearly 400 of the samples originated from Wetwang Slack in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Britain's most extensive known Iron Age cemetery, which saw its peak activity from the fourth to second centuries BC.

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The genetic data demonstrates male relatives were frequently missing from these ancestral resting places, the New Scientist reports.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Additional specimens were gathered from neighbouring archaeological locations in the region.The genetic evidence reveals a pronounced matrilocal...

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