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

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 ...

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

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

Echoing the writings of Julius Caesar, the researchers further uncovered a footprint of Iron Age migration into coastal southern England, which had gone undetected in prior genetic studies.

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

The researchers focused on a site near Winterborne Kingston in England. They analyzed the DNA of over 50 individuals from a set of Iron Age burial grounds. They found that this community was majorly ...

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

a Human Skeletal Biologist at Historic England. Stark added: "This could suggest that female involvement in raiding and other types of violence was more common in Iron Age society than we’ve ...