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.

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 related along a single matrilineal line.

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,

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

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient DNA analysis and testing,

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.

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.

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

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands relocating to live within their wives' communities. This marks the first documented instance of such a system in European prehistory.

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.

An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in Dorset ... archaeological sites spanning six millennia, British Iron Age cemeteries stand out as having marked reductions in diversity ...