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

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

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

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

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

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic ... "But archaeology, and now genetics, implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new ...

When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new ...

The Iron Age burials of powerful women revealed ... divorce and lead the Celtic armies. Julius Caesar himself noted the seemingly exotic practice of British women taking more than one husband ...