Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British ... which is patrilineally inherited (from the father ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable , according to surviving written ...

Celtic women in Iron Age Britain had strong family ties, controlling land and property in a matrilineal society.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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.

Read the paper: Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain The authors ... In the past five years, ancient-DNA studies that involve the exhaustive analysis of ancient ...

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 ...