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so to be able to study this shield is a great privilege," Julia Farley from the British Museum shared. "It holds a rich store of information about Iron Age society and craft practices. We are ...
An Iron Age shield found during an archaeological dig ... most significant finds in recent history and the most important British Celtic art object of the millennium’. Malton Museum staff ...
That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back about 2,000 years. Found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire ...
“Its decoration combines both Mediterranean and British Iron Age styles. It also has elaborate decoration of coral, so whoever owned something like that has probably got a network across Britain ...
In a video clip posted on the university’s website, Tom Moore, an archaeology professor who specializes in the British and European Iron Age, said: “It was only really when we went back to ...
An in-depth genetic analysis of 2,000-year-old genomes has revealed that women were at the center of social networks in British Celtic communities during the Iron Age. Women were potentially very ...
Remarkable evidence that women in British Iron Age society were empowered politically and socially has been unveiled in an international genetic study led by researchers at Trinity College Dublin.
"Such a matrilocal pattern is undescribed in European prehistory, but when we compare mitochondrial haplotype variation among European archaeological sites spanning six millennia, British Iron Age ...
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 ...
genetic studies at western European Iron Age sites have produced weak evidence of matrilocal practices, yet female graves on the continent contain more sumptuous goods than those at British ...