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

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

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

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

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

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

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...

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

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

Women led early British society 2,000 years ago, archaeologists find - Findings suggest in some parts of early British ...

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

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women ...