Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift. DNA clues indicate that around 2,000 years ago, married women in a Celtic society, known as ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by Bournemouth University in January 2025 shows burials being investigated at an Iron ...

When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or at least, that’s how Julius Caesar and other witnesses described the ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

Scientists from Trinity College and Bournemouth University collaborated to learn about the societies of Iron Age Celts and Britain. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Scientists from ...

Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women Date: January 15, 2025 Source: Trinity College Dublin Summary: A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the ...

New genetic research is challenging long-held assumptions about ancient European societies, particularly during the Neolithic, Copper, and Bronze Ages, which were believed to be predominantly ...

But our results point towards substantial cross-channel mobility during the Iron Age as well. Narrowing down the arrival time of Celtic will be difficult.

DNA recovered from an Iron Age burial ground in southern England reveals a Celtic community where husbands moved to join their wives’ families — a rare sign of female influence and empowerment ...

Genetic analysis of people buried in a 2000-year-old cemetery in southern England has bolstered the idea that Celtic communities in Britain placed women centre-stage, showing that women remained ...

Women were at the centre of social networks in Iron Age British Celtic communities, research in this week’s Nature suggests. The analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals evidence for matrilocal Celtic ...