Whittlesey: "A settlement in the east of England burned down in a fire 3000 years ago, falling into a muddy waterway that preserved everything inside the houses including tools, fabric, cooking pots and more."

Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ancient England
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423158-amazingly-preserved-bronze-age-village-reveals-life-in-ancient-england/ 
 

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Evidence from an archaeological site in Ethiopia suggests ancient humans adapted their diet during a dry spell after the Toba volcano eruption 74,000 years ago

Ancient campsite may show how humans survived volcanic super-eruption
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423281-ancient-campsite-may-show-how-humans-survived-volcanic-super-eruption/ 

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Whittlesey: "A settlement in the east of England burned down in a fire 3000 years ago, falling into a muddy waterway that preserved everything inside the houses including tools, fabric, cooking pots and more."

Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ancient England
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423158-amazingly-preserved-bronze-age-village-reveals-life-in-ancient-england/ 
 

Grauniad: "Settlement on stilts dropped into River Nene after a fire nearly 3,000 years ago and was preserved in silt."
Bronze age objects from ‘Pompeii of the Fens’ to go on display
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/20/bronze-age-objects-from-pompeii-of-the-fens-must-farm-cambridgeshire 

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Grauniad: "Settlement on stilts dropped into River Nene after a fire nearly 3,000 years ago and was preserved in silt."
Bronze age objects from ‘Pompeii of the Fens’ to go on display
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/20/bronze-age-objects-from-pompeii-of-the-fens-must-farm-cambridgeshire 

 Interesting . I have been fishing in this Sutherland Loch a few times and for years never knew what they meant by "no fishing off the Crannog"😁
https://historylinksdornoch.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/the-loch-migdale-crannog/ 
 

There was a more recent fire on a reconstructed crannog not so long ago.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/national/cause-of-crannog-centre-fire-on-loch-tay-may-never-be-known-3340943 
 

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"April 1 2024 marks the 725th anniversary of King Edward I granting royal charters to two settlements in the north of England: Kingston upon Hull and Ravenser Odd.
The first, of course, is better known as Hull, the city on the banks of the Humber estuary that today handles a quarter of UK seaborne trade.
Few will have heard of the second, though. Despite its relative importance in 1299, today, Ravenser Odd has been largely forgotten – because it disappeared, swallowed by the North Sea."

Ravenser Odd: the medieval city Yorkshire lost to the sea
https://theconversation.com/ravenser-odd-the-medieval-city-yorkshire-lost-to-the-sea-224410 

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"Isotopic analysis of horse teeth from a medieval burial site suggest that the animals were imported to England from Scandinavia or the Alps, perhaps for use in battle or jousting."

Medieval horses buried in London had far-flung origins
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423824-medieval-horses-buried-in-london-had-far-flung-origins/ 

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Similar isotopic analysis on fallow deer skeletons at Fishbourne Roman Palace show that the Romans imported them from Europe:
They were released to wander around, "like in a safari park", palace curator Rob Symmons said. "They didn't seem to have been used for food." 
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-28951148 

They went  extinct in Britain and our present fallow deer are descendants of ones which have been shown to have been imported from Anatolia for hunting. 
Several centuries later, deer originating from the Anatolian population were then reintroduced around 1000 AD, just before the Norman Conquest, and it was this population that, in turn, was exported around the British Empire. This practice was referenced in the 17th century Dutch hunting manuscript, Jacht-Bedryff, for example, which states that Maurice of Nassau, later the Prince of Orange, acquired 100 fallow deer from England to stock The Hague Forest. 

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/genetic-analysis-and-archaeological-insight-combine-to-reveal-the-ancient-origins-of-the-fallow-deer/ 
 

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"Italian canoes capable of transporting people and goods have been dated to the Neolithic period, suggesting there was a bustling trade across the Mediterranean Sea."

Ancient canoes hint at bustling trade in Mediterranean 7000 years ago
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423345-ancient-canoes-hint-at-bustling-trade-in-mediterranean-7000-years-ago/ 

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