A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

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Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and ...

DNA evidence from 2,000 years ago shows that women in Celtic society typically remained in their ancestral communities after ...

The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements ...

DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a "matrilocal" community in Iron ...

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic ... "But archaeology, and now genetics, implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new ...

When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new ...

Once their time at Shrewsbury was over, the couple kept in touch and made their life in Taunton following their wedding in Minehead in the 1970s. When Sue, now 74, was born prematurely in Newton Abbot ...