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

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

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

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable. People today shouldn’t.

DNA evidence from 2,000 years ago shows that women in Celtic society typically remained in their ancestral communities after ...

Land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain and husbands moved to live with their wife’s community, ...

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

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

Historical accounts from Greek and Roman writers, including Julius Caesar, described powerful female political leaders in Iron Age England, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, noting their ...

Researchers analysed the genomes of 57 individuals buried in Iron Age cemeteries associated with ... such as queens like Boudica and Cartimandua, who commanded armies and wielded significant ...

There was also Cartimandua, the 1st-century queen of the ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was the ...