Iron Age cemeteries with well-preserved burials are rare in Britain. Dorset is an exception, due to the unique burial customs of the people who lived there, named as the "Durotriges" by the Romans.

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 ...

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 ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. An examination of ...

How did Iron Age people live? Video: What was an Iron Age hill fort? Who lived and worked at a hill fort? What did Iron Age people believe? Activities Inside the hill forts, people lived in round ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Archaeologists in Denmark were astonished to uncover a massive cache of Iron Age weapons in Denmark at an “infrastructure sight” in the town of Hedensted, Ancient Origins reported. The find ...

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 study has found evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife’s community. This is believed to be the first time such ...