An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.
Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — ...
Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...
DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a "matrilocal" community in Iron ...
Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men ...
The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements ...
An ancient cemetery reveals a Celtic tribe that lived in England 2,000 years ago and that was organized around maternal ...
Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.
The discovery is linked to "matrilocality," a social system where a married couple lives with or near the wife's parents ...
Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a ...