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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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