Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Women were at the centre of iron age Britain – new find reminds us how misogyny has shaped our view of the past

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par Jay Silverstein, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Forensics, Nottingham Trent University

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written records. New DNA research from the University of Bournemouth shows one of the ways this empowerment manifested – inheritance through the female line.

The researchers present a genetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is matrilineally…

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