Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology
A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient ...
Ancient DNA from graves reveals "jaw-dropping" discovery about Iron Age women in U.K., scientists say
Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was ...
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Bog Bodies of the Iron Age
According to the Roman historian Strabo, some Iron Age Europeans tried to divine the future by "reading" a victim's entrails. The year Rendswühren Man was discovered, a self-taught German scholar ...
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Iron Age societies were more progressive than most, including modern times
New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and political power.
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Twigstats unveils Europe’s hidden ancestral shifts from Iron Age to Viking era
People with ancestry originating in Scandinavia or Germany appeared as early as the ... as a mixture of ancestries associated with Roman Iron Age Lithuania. In present-day Slovakia, individuals ...
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What did Iron Age people make?
This included Iron Age people who lived in modern-day France, Belgium, Germany and Italy. Some people call Iron Age Britons ‘The Celts’. The word ‘Celt’ comes from the ancient Greeks who ...
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'Cut the Iron Curtain': Germany's 1989 freedom picnic
"I kept the piece of fence I cut for 20 years." At the age of 46, Werner Misch travelled to the picnic from Halle in East Germany. He did not, however, cross into Austria with the crowd ...