Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was ...

Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...

DNA evidence from 2,000 years ago shows that women in Celtic society typically remained in their ancestral communities after ...

Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an ...

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is believed to be the first ...

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...

DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a "matrilocal" community in Iron ...

“This is the first time this type of system has been documented in European prehistory ... the research team decided to compare genetic findings from other Iron Age cemeteries, and though there wasn’t ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.

Women were at the centre of social networks in Iron Age British Celtic communities, research in this week’s Nature suggests.