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

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The researchers are sifting through data from prior genetic surveys of Iron Age Britain, and say they are already finding other examples. The cemetery was used from around 100 BC to 200 AD ...

LAND was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain and husbands moved to live with their wife’s community, according to a new study. A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin ...

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Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

British Triathlon have become the first national governing body in triathlon to introduce a pregnancy deferral policy for its Age Group team. Women who qualify for an Age Group Championship race may ...

A search is under way to trace up to 30 missing fragments of the Stone of Destiny - the ancient ... Prof Foster's research, funded by the The British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, has involved ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...