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

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

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

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

DNA analysis indicates that a Celtic tribe in Iron Age Britain was matrilocal, meaning men relocated to live with women’s ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...

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

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 ...

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

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women ...

“This is what we see in modern matrilocal societies and it is quite possible a similar set of dynamics were at play in Iron Age Britain. This would make it easier for individuals like Boudica or ...