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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...

“This is what we see in modern matrilocal societies and it is quite possible a similar set of dynamics were at play in Iron Age Britain. This would make it easier for individuals like Boudica or ...

DNA analysis indicates that a Celtic tribe in Iron Age Britain was matrilocal, meaning men relocated to live with women’s ...

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