Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

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Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women Date: January 15, 2025 Source: Trinity College Dublin Summary: A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the ...

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift. DNA clues indicate that around 2,000 years ago, married women in a Celtic society, known as ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. An examination of ...

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 ...

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age ...

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 ...

Data from earlier,smaller genetic surveys of Iron Age Britain also have a similar pattern. “Across Britain we saw cemeteries where most individuals were maternally descended from a small set of ...