Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...

A DNA analysis of around 50 Celtic Britons buried in southern England has revealed that women held power in Britain around the time of the Roman invasion of the country in 43 AD, according to a ...

New genetic evidence suggests that female family ties were central to social structures in pre-Roman Britain ... gender roles in Iron Age Britain, a time when Celtic tribes, speaking closely ...

The work supports growing archaeological evidence that women had high status within Celtic societies across Europe, including Britain, and gives credence to Roman written accounts that were often ...