A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men. An international team of geneticists and archaeologists, led by Trinity College ...

Fascinatingly, they found evidence of matrilocality at six different sites, all from Iron Age England. “Across Britain we saw cemeteries where most individuals were maternally descended from a ...

An in-depth genetic analysis of 2,000-year-old genomes has revealed that women were at the center of social networks in British Celtic communities during the Iron Age. Women were potentially very ...