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Others caution that a handful of studies from a 5000-year period across Europe isn’t enough to show patrilocality was a rule.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023

The site predates Hazleton by 1000 years, and it provides strong evidence for patrilocality: Dozens of people over seven generations traced their descent back to one man.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023

Archaeologists had speculated about patrilocality in past societies based on ethnographic evidence and clues from bone chemistry, but had never been able to conclusively demonstrate it.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023

To date, most of the dozen or so prehistoric family trees from Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe suggest patrilocality.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023

That shows men on the island stayed put, whereas women moved in from other islands or the nearby mainland over the course of centuries, a marriage system anthropologists call patrilocality.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2022