New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and political power.

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

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

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic societies were matrilocal with married women staying in their ancestral communities.

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient DNA analysis and testing, a team led by Dr Lara Cassidy and Professor Daniel Bradley from Trinity College Dublin successfully demonstrated that iron age people who were buried in Dorset from 100BC to AD100 practised matrilocality.

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written records. New DNA research from the University of Bournemouth shows one of the ways this empowerment manifested—inheritance through the female line.

Now, archaeologists working at the construction site of a school complex have discovered 13 “unusual” Gallic burials dating to the Iron Age, according to a Jan. 28 news release from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research.

Tamil Nadu, which has declared itself a pioneer of the Iron Age following radiocarbon dating results from reputed institutes tracing iron samples from the State to 3345 BC, must now curb ...

Iron Age in Tamil Nadu may have begun around 3,345 BCE, a thousand years earlier than previously believed, new carbon dating from burial urns in Sivagalai reveals. This challenges the notion that ...

Recent carbon dating of samples from burial urns in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district suggests the Iron Age could well have begun in the state. As per the study, Iron Age began at least 1,000 years ...

From modest beginnings, his discovery would soon rewrite the history of the Iron Age in Tamil Nadu. When Chief Minister MK Stalin announced on Thursday that the Iron Age began on Tamil soil 5,300 ...

DNA Analysis Reveals Celtic Age Women Were the Original ‘Iron Ladies’, Husbands Moved to Live In With Wife’s Community An international team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin along with archaeologists from Bournemouth University,