Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and ...

Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn’t surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near ...

The social fabric of Iron Age Britain, spanning roughly from 800 BC to AD 100, has long puzzled historians and archaeologists ...

Reconstruction of Iron Age helmet (top) from copper alloy fragments (above) found in the hoard. SNETTISHAM, ENGLAND—Metal ...

New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and ...

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

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

For the study, the team of researchers analysed more than 50 genomes extracted from burial sites in the village of ...

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

Ancient DNA analysis has revealed that an Iron Age community in Dorset, England, was centered around bonds of female-line ...

An analysis of ancient DNA from a late Iron Age cemetery in Dorset, southwest England, has shown that women in these communities were closely related, while men were likely newcomers, arriving ...

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