Killgrove, K. (2025, January 15). "Were the Celts matriarchal? Ancient DNA reveals men married into local, powerful female lineages." Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/were-the-celts-matriarchal-ancient-dna-reveals-men-married-into-local-powerful-female-lineages.

Key finding: "To figure out who was buried in the Dorset cemeteries, the researchers first sequenced the buried individuals' genomes. They discovered that 85% of the people were related to one another. Additionally, more than two-thirds of these relatives shared a rare mitochondrial DNA lineage — U5b1 — and Y chromosome diversity was high, meaning most people had the same maternal ancestors but not the same paternal ones."

Open Access Source Citation: Cassidy, L.M., Russell, M., Smith, M. et al. Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08409-6

"Frenchtastic Explorations. (2025, January 11). "Cajun-French Interview: Persecutions, Ashamed Generation, Memories with Grandpas, Hopeful Youth. " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L8ERx8BrfQ

Description:  Kevin Rees, of Acadian/Cajun ancestry, tells "Marie," who creates videos for "Frenchtastic Explorations," about how learning and speaking the French Language is central to his culture and history during her visit to the Vermilionville Historic Village in Lafayette, Louisiana, on November 6, 2024.  Note: English-language subtitles are provided.

Kevin (speaking Cajun French/French all the while) shares personal experiences and family stories about the perils of speaking French when he was going to school, talks about his work with The French Table, and plays the accordion!

Francis Crick Institute. (2025, January 1). "Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD: Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick Institute." The Francis Crick Institute News and Reports. https://www.crick.ac.uk/news-and-reports/2025-01-01_ancient-dna-unlocks-new-understanding-of-migrations-in-the-first-millennium-ad

Reference: Speidel, L., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. Nature 637, 118–126 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08275-

Ptak, A. (2024, December 29). "Viking remains at medieval burial site in Poland confirmed by DNA testing: Genetic analysis of remains found at a medieval burial site in central Poland has confirmed their Scandinavian origin, marking the first evidence of Viking settlement in that particular Polish region." https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/12/29/viking-remains-at-medieval-burial-site-in-poland-confirmed-by-dna-testing/