When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or ...
An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...
A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...
Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was ...
This could be evidence for Julius Caesar's claims that women in Iron Age Britain had multiple husbands, the researchers ...
Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and ...
The Iron Age burials of powerful women revealed ... divorce and lead the Celtic armies. Julius Caesar himself noted the seemingly exotic practice of British women taking more than one husband ...
Ancient DNA analysis has revealed that an Iron Age community in Dorset, England, was centered around bonds of female-line ...
The painting "Boadicea Haranguing the Britons" by John Opie (1761–1807), depicting the warrior queen Boudica of the Iron Age.
DNA analysis indicates that a Celtic tribe in Iron Age Britain was matrilocal, meaning men relocated to live with women’s ...
The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements ...