The cairn at Hazleton North included two L-shaped burial chambers.Pic Credit: Newcastle University
Posted on 01/02/2022 11:32:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Most of the people buried in one of the best-preserved Neolithic tombs in Britain were from five continuous generations of a single extended family, new research involving the University of York has revealed.
In a study published in Nature, researchers analysed DNA extracted from the bones and teeth of 35 individuals entombed approximately 5700 years ago at Hazleton North long cairn in the Cotswolds-Severn region. They found that 27 of them were descended from four women who all had children with the same man.KinshipThe group lived around 100 years after farming had been introduced to Britain and the authors of the study say that the results provide new insights into kinship and burial practices in Neolithic times.
Co-author of the study, Dr Lindsey Büster from the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, said: “This breakthrough study demonstrates the potential of fully integrated cultural and biomolecular approaches to understanding past societies and offers us a glimpse into the ways people who lived and died thousands of years ago articulated their relationships with one another”.
The cairn at Hazleton North included two L-shaped burial chambers which were located north and south of the main ‘spine’ of the linear structure. The research findings indicate that men were generally buried with their father and brothers, suggesting that descent was patrilineal with later generations buried at the tomb connected to the first generation entirely through male relatives.
While two of the daughters of the lineage who died in childhood were buried in the tomb, the complete absence of adult daughters suggests that their remains were placed either in the tombs of male partners with whom they had children, or elsewhere.
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The cairn at Hazleton North included two L-shaped burial chambers.Pic Credit: Newcastle University
“They found that 27 of them were descended from four women who all had children with the same man.”
The world’s first swinging bachelor?
Lucky guy.
RE: They found that 27 of them were descended from four women who all had children with the same man.
Reply: Lucky guy.
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Man in US city: Say what? I’m shonuff worn out running away from process servers for child support from only two women.
Maybe guys were faster runners back then.
He was busy, busy.
Count the toes.....
again proving hypergamy
Means he had three ex-wives!
Toes, probably where the term “kick out the jams” originated...
Women, even today will take any position in the home of a man who can care for their needs. I am talking about shelter, and abundant food. In short, the guy was wealthy. It is no different today, or wouldn’t be if men had not done such a great job making a society of plenty for all.
And over in the corner, inscribed in the stone:
Clinton.
Childbirth did tend to kill you.
So did... just about everything else.
4 different women? I hope his mothers in law didn’t live with them...
Quick.. see if Wilt Chamberlain is a distant relative!! 🤓
Wonder how many had 6 fingers.
Let’s Go Travon!!
“s&^%, I thought you was on the pill.
Wait, that was Brittney”
“Brittney!??”
LOL!
Oops, Let’s go Clyvon!
I wonder if they could determine if anyone of that lineage is alive today?
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