Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said Wednesday.

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was ...

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome ... which was populated before and after the Roman conquest. Iron Age cemeteries with well-preserved burial sites are rare in Britain ...

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society,

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women participating in public affairs, exercising political influence — and having more than one husband.

PARIS - Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said on Wednesday.

A hoard of gold and silver Roman coins, found near Worcester and said to have been enough to pay a legionnaire's salary for six years, have gone on public display for the first time. The coins, expected to be valued at more than £100,000 in today's money, were discovered in Leigh and Bransford by a member of the public in late 2023.

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

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is believed to be the first time such a system has been documented in European prehistory.

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