Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — ...

For these people, thought to be members of a Celtic tribe known as the Durotriges, the bonds of kinship inherited through mothers determined where they lived. “From what we know ...

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

For millennia, couples have had to decide where to live. "For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, "societies were centered around ties ...

This is why Cassidy and her colleagues were surprised to find remains of a Celtic tribe that lived during the Iron Age in Britain from around 100 BCE to 100 CE where it appeared, after studying ...

An ancient cemetery reveals a Celtic tribe that lived in England 2,000 years ago and that was organized around maternal lineages, according to a DNA analysis. By Becky Ferreira A tantalizing ...