Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written ...

Women led early British society 2,000 years ago, archaeologists find - Findings suggest in some parts of early British ...

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

The social fabric of Iron Age Britain, spanning roughly from 800 BC to AD 100, has long puzzled historians and archaeologists ...

Real authority behind most decision-making rested with female leaders such as Boudica, say academics ...

Archaeologists discovered evidence of the women-led society in Europe at a rare Iron Age site in southwest England.

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and ...

Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a ...

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.

The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements ...

Land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife’s community ...