In Current Archaeology 280 (June/July, 2013) (www.archaeology.co.uk … look in different categories. In 'news' you will find the following /articles/news/walbrook-channel-mystery-panel.html while in the features section you will find articles/features/london-pompeii-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-roman-waterfront.html and in the specials section you will find articles/specials/the-timeline-of-britain/the-story-of-roman-london.html) … there is an article on Roman London as revealed by an ongoing excavation not far from the Bank of England. It reveals how Londinium developed around not only the Thames side but the Walbrook stream. At that time it was a river that ran through a deep sided valley. The reason for this was that during high tide not only was the Thames swollen but the Walbrook channel filled up enabling wharves to be built quite a distance upstream, and leading to the development of London at this point. In other words, the Walbrook was tidal in nature, just as the Thames is currently tidal all the way down to Teddington (and on occasion much further still). Excavations beneath the former Slug and Lettuce PH and Bloomsbury Place, on the road from Mansion House to the Bank, has revealed a wealth of Roman finds – in spite of lots of historical building work that included basements etc. It has been described as London's Pompeii because the area became waterlogged in the late Roman period and was subsequently buried as it sunk into the London Clay formation. Lots of wood, leather, and even fragments of textiles have been unearthed.
At http://ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/viking-age-older-wha… … the Viking era is being pushed back a bit, down to the 6th century AD, where it meets up with the general melee surrounding the collapse of the western Roman Empire.
At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350913/description/Now_extinct_wolf_… … which appears to recognise geneticists are unable to trace the path of dogs from wolves and are speculating about an extinct species.
At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350962/description/Ancient_Siberians… …. which is not strictly archaeology but concerns human hunters around 35,000 years ago, at about the time large numbers of mammoths had become extinct – or were about to become extinct. What then caused this to happen?