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12 results for "archaeology"
![Pale cliffs above a flat grassy area with ivy and trees growing across some of them. There are several, large and small caves in the cliffs.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/geograph-6702517-by-Sandy-Gerrard.jpg)
Creswell Crags Museum collections offer insight into the past and future of wolves
Bones found at the site are helping scientists to understand the diet of wolves and how they differ over time.
![Fallow deer stag © Bob Brewer/Unsplash.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fallow-deer-bob-brewer-14A9X2feLJ8-unsplash.webp)
New research supports conservation of fallow deer across Europe
New research has combined zooarchaeology and ancient and modern biomolecular datasets to reveal a new understanding of the history and projections of fallow deer.
![P1038353](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/P1038353.webp)
Hungry like a wolf: new insights from old bones housed in the BGS museum collections
BGS scientists are studying the diets of ancient British wolves and how they adapted to changing environments.
![Nastassja Simenski and Angenita Teekens visiting the National Geological Respository . © Emma Bee](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/core-library-users-artists-280923.jpg)
The art of boreholes: Essex artists visit the BGS to be inspired by our library of geological core
Two UK-based artists visitors aim to turn art and earth science into a collaborative experience that facilitates discussion on land usage.
![Glastonbury Tor rises above the low-lying wetlands of the Somerset Levels, one of the sample areas for the new research. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/P769823.jpg)
New method developed to identify wetland inhabitants
BGS-led research has helped develop a method to identify ancient human and animal wetland inhabitants.
![Plant sampling for strontium and sulphur plant analysis. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_20190716_123048_960px.jpg)
Updated biosphere map for the UK released
The updated biosphere map for the UK will allow users to identify sulphur isotope variations.
![Detail of a building in Thistle Court, Edinburgh, built around 1768 and one of the oldest buildings in the Edinburgh New Town. The stone is a mixture of locally derived material, with pale yellow-buff and pink sandstones and darker reddish-purple igneous rocks. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/P530859_960px.jpg)
Scotland’s building stones: over one thousand images now available online
New images of the BGS Building Stone Collection have been published.
![BGS’s Emrys Phillips examining the Stone of Scone at Edinburgh Castle in 1998. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/emerys-phillips-1998-960x653.jpg)
The Stone of Destiny
The origins of the Stone of Scone: where it came from, why BGS has crumbs of it in its collections and the little-known fact that it is upside down.