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Findings hint at first known matrilineal tribe documented in western European prehistory

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Archaeologists have unravelled the “murder mystery” of a teenage girl buried 2,000 years ago at an Iron Age settlement in Dorset during filming of a new Channel 4 television series unearthing secrets from Britain’s past.