An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, ...

When a cache of Iron Age metalwork emerged from Swedish soil, it did more than add a few glittering artifacts to museum ...

Archaeologists have uncovered rare evidence of an Iron Age blacksmith's workshop that was in use around 2,700 years ago. The remains were unearthed by a team from DigVentures, a social enterprise ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...

Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age as the refining process of iron was discovered.

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 ...

Ancient England had more "bling" than historians have given it credit for. That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back ...