Matrilocal practices characterized many British Celtic communities, the scientists say. Further comparisons of mitochondrial DNA from people buried at 156 British and continental European ...

Genetic analysis of people buried in a 2000-year-old cemetery in southern England has bolstered the idea that Celtic communities ... related to mitochondrial DNA – small loops of DNA that ...

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 ...

Joanne Dillon’s family pilgrimage to Staten Island was a lifetime in coming. The last one took place during World War II, a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by Bournemouth University in January 2025 shows burials being investigated at an Iron ...

Researchers analysed the genomes of 57 individuals buried in Iron Age cemeteries associated with Durotrigian people, part of a Celtic tribe that lived in Dorset 2,000 years ago. The results ...

Celtic society in England ... relatives shared a rare mitochondrial DNA lineage — U5b1 — and Y chromosome diversity was high, meaning most people had the same maternal ancestors but not ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that ...

DNA recovered from an Iron Age burial ... partners moved in and left their homes behind. For these people, thought to be members of a Celtic tribe known as the Durotriges, the bonds of kinship ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women ...