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

This further suggests Iron Age Celtic women were, perhaps, at the very heart of social networks in their communities, staying in the same circles throughout life, maintaining social networks and ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Previous archaeological studies had revealed Iron Age women buried along with prestige items: “the girl with the chariot medallion,” for example. But the interpretation of such discoveries has ...

Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — unlike previous... Ancient Celtic tribe had women at its social ...

It’s worth noting menstruating women need more iron than other people as they lose blood roughly once a month. Those who are ...

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.

That is, the men came to live with the women's family, who stayed in the same location for generations. When the authors compared their data to other iron age sites, they found that matrilocal ...