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

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written ...

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

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient DNA analysis and ...

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...

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

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

Women led early British society 2,000 years ago, archaeologists find - Findings suggest in some parts of early British ...

Archaeologists discovered evidence of the women-led society in Europe at a rare Iron Age site in southwest England.

There was also Cartimandua, the 1st-century queen of the Brigantes people ... "But archaeology, and now genetics, implies ...

Real authority behind most decision-making rested with female leaders such as Boudica, say academics ...