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 ...

If historic accounts were more honest, the find would have been received as a confirmation of the role of women in iron age Britain. Instead, it is being framed as a breakthrough that contradicts ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and matrilocal, with women holding status and influence. A study published ...

An international team of geneticists, led by researchers from Trinity College in collaboration with archaeologists from Bournemouth University, has uncovered secrets of the social structure of Iron ...