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

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 ...

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.

But Prof David Reich told the BBC that this wasn't the end of the story. During the Iron Age or Roman Period, the DNA of people in the south-east diverged somewhat from that of populations in the ...