If historic accounts were more honest, the find would have been received as a confirmation of the role of women in iron age ...

Read more: Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology When the authors compared their data to other iron age sites ...

In 2011, my own analysis of the middle iron age burials in Britain revealed equal treatment and access to high-status goods for men and women, with elder status more important socially than gender.

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 ...

Academic say that ‘individuals like Boudica were able to to reach the highest political offices’ in Iron Age Britain - Culture Club/Getty ...

But it's also a reminder that our present is plagued by prejudices and misconceptions about human history. If historic accounts were more honest, the find would have been received as a confirmation of ...

Credit: Bournemouth University A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands relocating to live within their wives’ ...