A groundbreaking study reveals that Tamil Nadu's Iron Age began as early as 3,345 BCE, predating the Hittite Empire's iron ...

Iron Age in Tamil Nadu may have begun around 3,345 BCE, a thousand years earlier than previously believed, new carbon dating ...

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

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

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

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new ...

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 ...

Writer Madeleine Bunting begins a new series examining the many dimensions of what we call home, from an Iron Age hut to the home button on our smartphones.

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. An examination of ...

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 ...