DNA Analysis Reveals Celtic Age Women Were the Original ‘Iron Ladies’, Husbands Moved to Live In With Wife’s Community An international team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin along with ...

Whereas women commonly left home to join their husbands’ families upon marriage, the Durotriges, a Celtic tribe that lived in Dorset 2,000 years ago, bucked the mold with a system called ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable. People today shouldn’t.

The women stayed put in their communities ... They often speak a different language from their neighbors (in this case, Celtic) — evidence they probably migrated from somewhere else.

Another line of evidence on powerful Celtic women comes from classical texts, from potentially unreliable narrators — the Romans. Julius Caesar wrote that British women could take multiple husbands.

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

It’s only a few years since Glasgow City dominated the Scottish Women's Premier League. We’ve since seen both Rangers and Celtic break through to win the league title. That’s made the SWPL very ...

in which women married outsiders — and their male partners moved in and left their homes behind. For these people, thought to be members of a Celtic tribe known as the Durotriges, the bonds of ...