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

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 ...

New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and ...

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 ...

Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an incredibly rare Iron Age helmet. The discovery was made by the British ...

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 ...

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 ...

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient ...

Academic say that ‘individuals like Boudica were able to to reach the highest political offices’ in Iron Age Britain - Culture Club/Getty ...