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 ...

Now, a team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Bournemouth University have discovered ...

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.

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient ...

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.

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