The Roman historian Tacitus, who lived in Osterby Man's era ... The noose around his neck makes clear that, like other Iron Age bog bodies, he was killed, but following the violent act he was ...
Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across ...
Tacitus described them as red-haired and large ... Archaeologists suspect many Iron Age peoples often practised complex funeral rituals in which bodies were naturally allowed to decompose.
DNA analysis indicates that a Celtic tribe in Iron Age Britain was matrilocal, meaning men relocated to live with women’s families.
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 Durotrigians, ...
The remains were discovered alongside a 2000-year-old sword and mirror A decades-long mystery over whether an Iron Age warrior who lived on the Isles of Scilly was a man or woman has been solved.