People living in Scotland 400 hundred years apart have been shown to suffer similar seasonal declines over winter in their vitamin D levels despite the enormous changes in lifestyle and diet over ...

Those investigating the locations of the Merlin legend in the Scottish Borders have been nominated in the Current Archaeology Awards 2025. Also on the shortlist for the Research Project of the ...

Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

Scientists in Scotland have developed a new method to understand the heat and intensity of fires that burned out millions of ...

The search for the roots of the Merlin legend in the Scottish Borders and the excavation of Scotland’s first licensed distillery are being recognised.

A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...

Crannogs were probably the centres of prosperous Iron Age farms, where people lived in an easily-defended location to protect themselves and their livestock from passing raiders.

Colin Renfrew played a key part in transforming archaeology into a problem-oriented, theoretically explicit and ...

The team of researchers have made several trips to the isolated cave to study the ancient, gruesome traditions that once took place there.

The nominees of the 17th annual Current Archaeology Awards are below, and voting is now open. The awards celebrate the projects and publications that made the pages of the magazine over the past 12 ...