Archaeologists in England are currently puzzling over a 2,000-year-old comb that was carved from the back of a human skull.

Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn't surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near Dorset, England. But she was quite surprised to find most of them were ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, ...

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable. People today shouldn’t.

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift. DNA clues indicate that around 2,000 years ago, married women in a Celtic society, known as ...

In anthropology and archeology, the structure of human societies can be determined ... Data from earlier,smaller genetic surveys of Iron Age Britain also have a similar pattern.

Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women Date: January 15, 2025 Source: Trinity College Dublin Summary: A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the ...

As the veterans searched near the airfield, they discovered “long-lost” artifacts from the Iron Ages, likely part of the ...

Much remains mysterious about society in Iron Age Britain. Human remains from this period are rare. The acidic soil is not suited for preservation, and the bodies of many individuals may have been ...

The DNA comes from human remains taken from a late iron age cemetery (circa 100BC—AD100) of the Durtriges tribe in Dorset. The researchers discovered a continuous line of descent of mtDNA ...