DNA Analysis Reveals Celtic Age Women Were the Original ‘Iron Ladies’, Husbands Moved to Live In With Wife’s Community An international team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin along with ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, ...

To compare what was found at Dorset to the rest of Britain, Cassidy and her fellow geneticists at Trinity sifted through the DNA database of dozens of other Iron Age archaeological sites, scattered ...

An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in Dorset ... archaeological sites spanning six millennia, British Iron Age cemeteries stand out as having marked reductions in diversity ...

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift. DNA clues indicate that around 2,000 years ago, married women in a Celtic society, known as ...

The findings challenge traditional perceptions of Iron Age social norms ... sharing maternal ancestry through mitochondrial DNA, as reported by Science News. This pattern indicates that the ...

Building on these previous discoveries, researchers have now sequenced the DNA of 55 individuals from ... spanning from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Fascinatingly, they found evidence of ...

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

Celtic society in England was female-focused 2,000 years ago, a genetic study of Iron Age skeletons reveals. DNA analysis of dozens of ancient burials uncovered a community whose lineage could be ...

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient DNA analysis and testing, a team led by Dr Lara Cassidy and Professor Daniel ...

An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in Dorset ... there was something special about the role of women in Iron Age Britain. A patchwork of tribes with closely related languages ...