Archaeologists in England are currently puzzling over a 2,000-year-old comb that was carved from the back of a human skull.

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

Read the paper: Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain The authors found compelling evidence of a matrilocal society — one in which women remained in their ancestral ...

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 ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin say that Britain's Iron Age society centred on women. According to the experts, women inherited land and made their husbands move to live with them.

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 ...

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

An in-depth genetic analysis of 2,000-year-old genomes has revealed that women were at the center of social networks in British Celtic communities during the Iron Age. Women were potentially very ...

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 ...

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 ...

"There are less than 10 Iron Age helmets in Britain and every single one is unique," said Iron Age curator Dr Julia Farley, explaining the discovery's significance. Other insights included the ...