The genetic data from this new study aided the theory that some Celtic women were of a higher status and that they were influential in shaping group identity through matrilineal lines.

For instance, Celtic women were sometimes buried with luxurious grave goods, like jewelry and mirrors, a marker of high status. Patrilocality, whereby women live near their in-laws, is still far ...

Read full article ... networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely ...

in which women married outsiders — and their male partners moved in and left their homes behind. For these people, thought to be members of a Celtic tribe known as the Durotriges, the bonds of ...

Celtic society ... Cassidy told Live Science in an email, but "the few modern individuals who belong to this haplotype are not necessarily direct descendants of women who lived in this community." ...

Whereas women commonly left home to join their husbands' families upon marriage, the Durotriges, a Celtic tribe that lived in Dorset 2,000 years ago, bucked the mold with a system called ...