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

This further suggests Iron Age Celtic women were ... Researchers say most of the people buried here were related along a single matrilineal line. (Bournemouth University/The Associated Press ...

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

Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an ...

This included their own in-depth analysis of DNA from 55 prehistoric people whose remains were in burial grounds in Winterborne Kingston, Dorset. The Dorset remains, including 40 Iron Age people ...

DNA extracted from skeletal remains of 57 people buried in Iron Age cemeteries near Durotrigian sites showed signs of matrilocality, the scientists report January 15 in Nature. Analyses of ...

Iron Age cemeteries with well-preserved burials are rare in Britain. Dorset is an exception, due to the unique burial customs of the people who lived there, named as the “Durotriges” by the ...

Philistines were very likely of Greek origin, as a new DNA study traces the origins of the ancient villains in the Eastern ...

For these people, thought to be members of a Celtic ... Much remains mysterious about society in Iron Age Britain. Human remains from this period are rare. The acidic soil is not suited for ...

The torcs, which came in a range of sizes, were buried at a time when coinage was becoming of more importance to Iron Age people Why were so many torcs laid to rest at Ken Hill within such a short ...

"These people lived in a world where these unique ... And Norfolk appears to have had a particularly dynamic Iron Age society. "They had the mechanism to make this stuff, to source the gold ...