New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and ...

Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn’t surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near ...

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

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

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

But archaeology, and now genetics, implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life. Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was the primary shaper of group identities." ...

But scientists say the Roman scribes were not being hyperbolic and women were likely to actually be influential in many spheres of Iron Age life. “Women in leadership roles are relatively more ...