Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men ...

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New genetic evidence suggests that female family ties were central to social structures in pre-Roman Britain, offering a fresh perspective on Celtic society and its gender dynamics.

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

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An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, ...

Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was ...

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Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a ...

Learn more about the Durotriges, the first known matriarchal society found in Europe.