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

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

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 ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

There was also Cartimandua, the 1st century queen of the Brigantes people ... "But archaeology, and now genetics, implies ...