Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written records. New DNA research from the University of Bournemouth shows one of the ways this empowerment manifested—inheritance through the female line.

Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said Wednesday. When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius ...

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,

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was ...

Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around ... When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about ...