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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Remarkable evidence that women in British Iron Age society were empowered politically and socially has been unveiled in an international genetic study led by researchers at Trinity College Dublin.

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 ...