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

Iron Age female burials are often the most richly adorned, a sign of high status. Moreover, Roman historical accounts describe powerful Celtic women, such as Boudicca, a warrior queen who led revolts ...

When the Romans first entered the British Isles, they found a land ruled by warrior queens and other ... spanning from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Fascinatingly, they found evidence of ...

DNA recovered from an Iron Age burial ground in southern England reveals a Celtic community where husbands ... Descriptions of Cartimandua, a warrior-queen who ruled a tribe in the north called ...

This further suggests Iron Age Celtic women were ... female Archaeologists identify Iron Age remains as those of a female warrior Still, Cassidy was quick to note that, historically, matrilocal ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society ... The DNA comes from human remains taken from a late iron age cemetery (circa 100BC—AD100) of the Durtriges ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature reveals an extraordinarily different social structure in Iron Age Britain, showing that Celtic communities ... the gender of a warrior buried 2,000 ...

The study also uncovers previously undetected Late Iron Age migrations ... sources describing Celtic women as empowered figures — including Boudica, the famous warrior queen, and Cartimandua ...

These include the famous warrior queen Boudica ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was the primary ...

Drunken, barbaric warriors who went into battle naked ... For instance, excavations of Heuneburg, an Iron-age fortified Celtic city in southwest Germany that was home to some 10,000 inhabitants ...