New genetic evidence suggests that female family ties were central to social structures in pre-Roman Britain, offering a fresh perspective on Celtic society and its gender dynamics.

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, ...

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

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

The social fabric of Iron Age Britain, spanning roughly from 800 BC to AD 100, has long puzzled historians and archaeologists ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men ...

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

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