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

Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.

Learn more about the Durotriges, the first known matriarchal society found in Europe.

Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said Wednesday.

New genetic evidence suggests that female family ties were central to social structures in pre-Roman Britain, offering a fresh perspective on Celtic society and its gender dynamics.

Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a more uncivilized society. However, this genetic and skeletal evidence implies that women were likely influential and could have been shaping group identity through matrilineal lines.

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women

DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a "matrilocal" community in Iron Age Britain, a new study suggests

A groundbreaking study of the Durotriges tribe in Iron Age Britain reveals that women played central roles in their society.

Scientists from Trinity College, Dublin, and Bournemouth University collaborated to learn about the societies of Iron Age Celts and Britain.