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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Ben Mitchell

Archaeologists shocked to discover first women-centric community in Europe

The excavation of a late Iron Age Durotriges burial at Winterborne Kingston - (Bournemouth University/PA Wire)

A female-centric order has been discovered for the first time in European prehistory after scientists analysed DNA from a set of burial grounds in Dorset.

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, working with archaeologists from Bournemouth University, made the discovery by analysing the DNA from burial grounds in Winterborne Kingston, Dorset, which date back to the Roman conquest of AD43.

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