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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

A set of Iron Age chainmail was recovered from an excavation in Denmark. (Image credit: Vejle Museums) A couple of months later, the researchers discovered fragments of an "exceptionally rare ...

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 structure of human societies is shaped by where married couples tend ... The authors analysed the genomes of 57 individuals buried in Iron Age cemeteries associated with Durotrigian communities in ...

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 ...