Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift. DNA clues indicate that around 2,000 years ago, married women in a Celtic society, known as ...

Human remains from Iron Age Britain are rare because prevailing funerary customs, including cremation or depositing bodies in wetlands, destroyed them.

Celtic Women Ruled Iron Age Britain, 2,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals The original Iron Ladies. Benjamin Taub ... Freelance Writer Edited byLaura Simmons ...

An in-depth genetic analysis of 2,000-year-old genomes has revealed that women were at the center of social networks in British Celtic communities during the Iron Age. Women were potentially very ...

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

A groundbreaking study published in Nature reveals an extraordinarily different social structure in Iron Age Britain, showing that Celtic communities were, in fact, matrilocal. Here, married women ...

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that ...

Women-centered Celtic society unearthed in 2,000-year-old cemetery DNA analysis indicates that a Celtic tribe in Iron Age Britain was matrilocal, meaning men relocated to live with women’s families.

Humans Celtic tribe's DNA points to female empowerment in pre-Roman Britain Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting ...