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

Culture Club/Getty Iron Age Britain may have been more feminist than many people believe, a study has found. Queens during this time, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, are famed for their ...

Iron Age cemeteries with well-preserved burials ... Two of the earliest recorded rulers were queens -- Boudica and Cartimandua -- who commanded armies. "It's been suggested that the Romans ...

Similarly in European iron age studies, following the 1953-56 discovery of the ... We hear of female political leaders, Boudica and Cartimandua. Further back, the ancient Greek texts tell us of the ...

Excavating a Late Iron Age Durotriges burial at Winterborne Kingston ... Two of the earliest recorded rulers were queens – Boudica and Cartimandua – who commanded armies,” said Dr Miles ...

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

Iron Age cemeteries with well reserved burials ... Two of the earliest recorded rulers were queens – Boudica and Cartimandua – who commanded armies.” ...

Historical accounts from Greek and Roman writers, including Julius Caesar, described powerful female political leaders in Iron Age England, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, noting their ...

DNA recovered from an Iron Age burial ground in southern England ... British women could take multiple husbands. Descriptions of Cartimandua, a warrior-queen who ruled a tribe in the north called ...

There was also Cartimandua, the 1st-century queen of the ... implies women were influential in many spheres of Iron Age life," he said. "Indeed, it is possible that maternal ancestry was the ...