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

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

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new ...

Researchers have also found evidence of the Durotriges tribe, who occupied the central southern English coast around 100BC to AD100, burying women with valuable items. Now, DNA from these Celtic ...

LAND was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain and husbands moved to live with their wife’s community, according to a new study. A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin ...

Researchers have also found evidence of the Durotriges tribe, who occupied the central southern English coast around 100BC to AD100, burying women with valuable items. Now, DNA from these Celtic ...

The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements, including a site near Dorset nicknamed “Duropolis” by the ...

However the Durotriges tribe, which occupied the southern central coastal region of England between 100 BC and AD 100 -- and gave their name to Dorset -- were an exception, burying their dead in ...