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

Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn't surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near Dorset, England. But she was quite surprised to find most of them were ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...

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

Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — ...

An ancient cemetery reveals a Celtic tribe that lived in England 2,000 years ago and that was organized around maternal ...

Women in Britain 2,000 years ago appear to have passed on land and wealth to daughters not sons as communities were built ...

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

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...

For millennia, couples have had to decide where to live. "For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, "societies were centered around ties ...