Celtic Women Held Power—and Were Sacrificed

Celtic women held power—and were sacrificed

There’s a grisly murder mystery playing out in southern England. However, in this case, there’s no chance of bringing its perpetrators to justice. Still, a team of archeologists from Bournemouth University hope to use this cold case to better understand the culture of a 2,000-year-old Iron Age tribe—one whose beliefs and rituals likely included human sacrifice. The Durotriges were a Celtic tribe that lived in present-day southern England prior t…