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 ...

The idea that these ancient societies may have revolved around females has previously been supported by finds in Celtic cemeteries ... from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Fascinatingly, they ...

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 ...

Such societies are not common in human history, with the Iron Age being unexceptional. The research published in the journal Nature looked into genetics and archaeological finds to confirm that women ...

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. Indeed, it is quite possible that Celtic ...

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 ...

The Durotriges occupied the central southern English coast from around 100 BC to AD 100 and probably spoke a Celtic language. Human remains from Iron Age Britain are rare because prevailing ...

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 ...

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