Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests

Study highlights role of women in Celtic Britain and challenges assumptions most societies were patrilocal

From Neanderthals to royal courts, history seems awash with women upping sticks to join men's families, but researchers have found that the tables were turned in Britain's Celtic communities.

Researchers studying DNA from iron age individuals in Britain have found evidence that men moved to join their wives' families - a practice known as matrilocality.