Another line of evidence on powerful Celtic women comes from classical texts ... Boudica of Iceni was portrayed as a tall, fierce woman, who led an uprising against the Romans.

Skeletons unearthed in Dorset contained DNA evidence that Celtic men moved ... originating with one woman. "This points to an Iron Age society in Britain where women wielded quite a lot of ...

For instance, Celtic women were sometimes buried with luxurious ... including an adult woman, her daughter, her adult granddaughters and a likely great-grandson. Eight of 10 family members who ...

DNA analysis of dozens of ancient burials uncovered a community whose lineage could be traced back to one woman, and showed ... with Roman descriptions of Celtic women. The researchers concluded ...

Celtic women’s social and political standing in ... Unlike more common patrilocal systems in which a woman marries into a husband’s family, matrilocal arrangements provide women with more ...

That's "where women move," says Cassidy ... 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 ...

It’s only a few years since Glasgow City dominated the Scottish Women's Premier League. We’ve since seen both Rangers and Celtic break through to win the league title. That’s made the SWPL very ...

Boudica of Iceni was portrayed as a tall, fierce woman, who led an uprising against ... of their claims about the special role that women had in Celtic Britain.” But the debate won’t be ...

Women in Britain 2,000 years ago appear to have passed on land and wealth to daughters not sons as communities were built around women's blood lines, according to new research. Skeletons unearthed in ...