Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn’t surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near ...

To compare what was found at Dorset to the rest of Britain, Cassidy and her fellow geneticists at Trinity sifted through the DNA database of dozens of other Iron Age archaeological sites, scattered ...

When they examined DNA from other Iron Age burial sites across Britain, they found similar patterns. For example, in Yorkshire, nearly 400 miles north of Winterborne Kingston, they discovered a ...

Now, a team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Bournemouth University have discovered ...

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 ...

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 ...

The DNA comes from human remains taken from a late iron age cemetery (circa 100BC—AD100) of the Durtriges tribe in Dorset.

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

Archaeologists discovered evidence of the women-led society in Europe at a rare Iron Age site in southwest England.

The findings challenge traditional perceptions of Iron Age social norms ... sharing maternal ancestry through mitochondrial DNA, as reported by Science News. This pattern indicates that the ...

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 ...