A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient ...

Till now, it is believed that the Iron Age began in the Middle East and South-eastern Europe around 1,200 BCE – that is ...

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

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

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a ...

Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an ...

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

“This is the first time this type of system has been documented in European prehistory ... the research team decided to compare genetic findings from other Iron Age cemeteries, and though there wasn’t ...

DNA evidence from 2,000 years ago shows that women in Celtic society typically remained in their ancestral communities after ...

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

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