Beneath the surface, Groundhog Day's deep roots predate Punxsutawney Phil
Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2, but celebrating the ...
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Celtic tribe's DNA points to female empowerment in pre-Roman Britain
Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...
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Beneath the surface, Groundhog Day's deep roots predate Punxsutawney Phil
Punxsutawney Phil is far from the only groundhog whose human handlers make annual announcements ... it's also a time of year that figures in the Celtic calendar and the Christian holiday of ...
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Celtic Women Held Sway in ‘Matrilocal’ Societies
Eight of 10 family members who were not part of this matriline were male, some of whom presumably ... suspected about the fluid nature of Celtic life. “Human society, even in one time slice ...
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Ancient Celtic tribe had women at its social center
"For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy ... This is why Cassidy and her colleagues were surprised to find remains of a Celtic tribe that lived during the Iron Age in Britain ...