Reacción a "Revealing a female-centred society during the Iron Age"

This is a relevant study for two reasons. Firstly, there are hardly any genetic studies on Iron Age remains because in much of Europe at that time cremation, open-air exposure or water deposition of the dead was the dominant ritual, which is not conducive to the preservation of human remains. And secondly, because the interpretation contrasts with the majority of published data for recent European prehistory, which generally suggest a patrilineal social structure and a patrilocal residence system. Further research will undoubtedly be necessary to complete and qualify the proposed social interpretation, but it is a stimulating possibility to assess other forms of social organisation.