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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements ...