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

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.

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

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

Additionally, more than two-thirds of these relatives shared a rare mitochondrial DNA lineage — U5b1 ... They found that the British Iron Age was unique in having low mitochondrial genetic ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were ... An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in Dorset in southwest England shows that two-thirds of the ...

When they examined DNA from other Iron Age burial sites across Britain ... helping explain the emergence of powerful queens and the relative freedom of women noted by Roman writers. The research was ...