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But some matrilocal communities exist today or in the recent past, including the Akans in Ghana, West Africa and Cherokee in North America.

The scientists say that Iron Age Britain may have been matrilocal because men were frequently away fighting.

Matrilocal societies are also less likely to experience internal conflict, she says.

The work indicates that this society was what is known as matrilocal - meaning that a married man moved to live in his wife's community.

The society has been and remains matriarchal and matrilocal, with husbands moving in with their wives’ families.