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

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient DNA analysis and testing, a team led by Dr Lara Cassidy and Professor Daniel ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...