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

A group of veterans and military personnel discovered parts of an Iron Age Celtic chariot in Wales. One of the finds, a horse-bit, dates back to 60 AD. The treasures may be part of the larger Llyn ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...

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 ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that ...

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 ...

Much remains mysterious about society in Iron Age Britain. Human remains from this period are rare. The acidic soil is not suited for preservation, and the bodies of many individuals may have been ...

But a study has shown that women had more power, influence and importance in Iron Age Britain than previously thought. Analysis of 57 skeletons found in a Dorset burial ground revealed more than ...

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 ...

If historic accounts were more honest, the find would have been received as a confirmation of the role of women in iron age Britain. Instead, it is being framed as a breakthrough that contradicts ...