Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn’t surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near ...

Contrary to the traditional image of ancient societies dominated by men, a genetic study reveals that women played a central ...

The social fabric of Iron Age Britain, spanning roughly from 800 BC to AD 100, has long puzzled historians and archaeologists. Recent breakthroughs in genetic analysis are now shedding light on the ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, ...

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...

Burials being investigated at an Iron Age Celtic cemetery as part of the Durotriges tribe project dig in Dorset, southwest England, January 2025. Burials being investigated at an Iron Age Celtic ...

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient ...

This photo provided by Bournemouth University in January 2025 shows a copper alloy mirror from an Iron Age Celtic cemetery as part of the Durotriges tribe project dig in Dorset, southwest England.

Whereas women commonly left home to join their husbands’ families upon marriage, the Durotriges, a Celtic tribe that lived in Dorset 2,000 years ago, bucked the mold with a system called ...

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Genetic analysis showed that most individuals buried at the cemetery, which is associated with a Celtic tribe called the Durotriges, were related through the maternal line. They find similar ...