Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was ...

Learn more about the Durotriges, the first known matriarchal society found in Europe.

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal ... ancestry through mitochondrial DNA, as reported by Science News.

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

Iron Age cemeteries with well-preserved burials are rare in Britain. Dorset is an exception, due to the unique burial customs of the people who lived there, named as the “Durotriges” by the Romans.

To compare what was found at Dorset to the rest of Britain, Cassidy and her fellow geneticists at Trinity sifted through the DNA database of dozens of other Iron Age archaeological sites, scattered ...

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age ...

And while modern historians have tended to distrust these ancient Roman accounts as over-exaggerated and inaccurate, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA suggests that women really were the big ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men. An international team of geneticists and archaeologists, led by Trinity College ...

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that ...

A new study has revealed that women inherited land in Iron Age Britain and husbands moved to live with their wife’s community. A team of geneticists made the discovery by analysing the DNA from ...