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

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

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written ...

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

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

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.

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and ...

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

Reconstruction of Iron Age helmet (top) from copper alloy fragments (above) found in the hoard. SNETTISHAM, ENGLAND—Metal ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...

Real authority behind most decision-making rested with female leaders such as Boudica, say academics ...