they were useful for preparing food or making clothing, and they may have been used for self-defense. Other examples of women's graves with knives and needles from the late Iron Age and early ...

helmets from Iron Age pre-Roman Britain, are just vanishingly rare ... underside of the terminals where they would have been rubbing against either the body or clothing. "So these things would have ...

There are less than 10 Iron Age helmets in Britain and every single one is unique,' said Julia Farley, Iron Age curator at the British Museum.

Iron Age Britons were mostly occupied by many relentless tasks each day. However evidence of brightly coloured clothing and intricate jewellery shows that some of the Celts at least were skilled ...

A 2800-year-old red and blue checked dress found in an Early Iron Age grave in the Netherlands ... evidence that the dyed textiles came from clothing, says Karina Grömer at the Natural History ...

Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn't surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near Dorset, England. But she was quite surprised to find most of them were ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. An examination of ...

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 ...

Remarkable evidence that women in British Iron Age society were empowered politically and socially has been unveiled in an international genetic study led by researchers at Trinity College Dublin.