RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p>Good article worth reading, demonstrating modern researcher <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bias</span></a>, however. The article states that DNA and individual gender frequency at the Celtic burial site correlates with female dominance in society, but: </p><p>"This tells us that <strong>husbands</strong> moved to join their wives' communities upon marriage..."</p><p><em>Husbands?</em> From a woman researcher! From what data? </p><p>The researchers are focusing through a modern patriarchal lens positing a modern assumption that might have been valid ONLY after the Roman patriarchal invasion this find <em>predates.</em> </p><p>Was there any need at all for marriage for pre-Roman <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> societies?</p><p>Marriage and forced female fidelity is how a patriarch guarantees <em>her</em> child is <em>his.</em> <strong>A woman always knows the child is hers.</strong> There is never a question that the children she lets inherit her property are actually hers.</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/iron-age-dna-reveals-women-dominated-pre-roman-britain?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencealert.com/iron-age-dna-</span><span class="invisible">reveals-women-dominated-pre-roman-britain?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/engenderedWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engenderedWriting</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/celt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>celt</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Roman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roman</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patriarchy</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Matriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Matriarchy</span></a></p>