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

The painting "Boadicea Haranguing the Britons" by John Opie (1761–1807), depicting the warrior queen Boudica of the Iron Age. (Public domain/Wikipedia ... the Brigantes people in northern England.

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

Echoing the writings of Julius Caesar, the researchers further uncovered a footprint of Iron Age migration into coastal southern England, which had gone undetected in prior genetic studies.

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were ... and Roman writers, including Julius Caesar, wrote with disdain about their relative independence and fighting prowess.

DNA evidence from 2,000 years ago shows that women in Celtic society typically remained in their ancestral communities after ...

Ancient DNA analysis has revealed that an Iron Age community in Dorset, England, was centered around bonds of female-line ...

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic ... "But archaeology, and now genetics, implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ...

Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was centered around women, a study said.

A groundbreaking study published in Nature reveals an extraordinarily different social structure in Iron Age Britain ... Roman dictator Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars, noted ...

When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other high-status women – or ...