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 Bradley from Trinity College Dublin successfully demonstrated that iron age people who were buried in Dorset from 100BC to AD100 practised matrilocality.

Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was centered around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said Wednesday. When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written records. New DNA research from the University of Bournemouth shows one of the ways this empowerment manifested—inheritance through the female line.

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was ...

Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around ... When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about ...

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome ... which was populated before and after the Roman conquest. Iron Age cemeteries with well-preserved burial sites are rare in Britain ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that Tamil Nadu's Iron Age began as early as 3,345 BCE, predating the Hittite Empire's iron usage by a millennium. Radiometric dating of burial urn samples from Sivagalai indicate a thriving Iron Age civilization in southern India,

Evidence of the existence of the pre-historic peoples of Wales is to be found all over the country, literally on the ground as well as under it, and much of this relates to the burial of human remains.

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands relocating to live within their wives' communities. This marks the first documented instance of such a system in European prehistory.

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

Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn't surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near Dorset, England. But she was quite surprised to find most of them were ...

"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 ...