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

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

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

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

The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements ...

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...

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

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

Archaeologists discovered evidence of the women-led society in Europe at a rare Iron Age site in southwest England.

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women ...

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

Land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife’s community ...