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

And while modern historians have tended to distrust these ancient Roman ... Age. Fascinatingly, they found evidence of matrilocality at six different sites, all from Iron Age England. “Across ...

But archaeologists already knew there was something special about the role of women in Iron Age Britain ... art styles — sometimes referred to as Celtic — lived in England before the Roman ...

Read the paper: Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain The authors ... This echoes Roman-period written sources describing Celtic women as empowered figures ...

Dr Miles Russell, the excavation's director and co-author on the study, commented: "Beyond archaeology, knowledge of Iron Age Britain has come primarily from the Greek and Roman writers ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

DNA recovered from an Iron Age ... Roman writers often exoticized these societies, the genetic evidence … validates some of their claims about the special role that women had in Celtic Britain.” ...

The findings add nuance to the understanding of gender roles in Iron Age Britain, a time when Celtic tribes, speaking closely related languages and sharing similar art and cultural practices ...

But archaeologists already knew there was something special about the role of women in Iron Age Britain ... art styles – sometimes referred to as Celtic – lived in England before the Roman ...