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

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

DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a "matrilocal" community in Iron ...

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

These were simple one-roomed homes with a pointed thatched roof and ... food and beds made from straw covered with animal skins. Iron Age people developed some very useful tools to help them ...

Little Tew, a hamlet of just 150 homes nestled in rolling countryside ... a type of fortified settlement dating back to the Iron Age. Although preliminary desk-based assessments have been ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely ... detected the opposite pattern — women leaving their homes to join their husband's family group — in other ...

Also found under the home were bronze “oath rings,” which served as symbols of power in the Iron Age. Experts believe that the person who inhabited the home buried the weapons during a post ...