The news of the week in audio, for many years compiled and written by the late Michelle Hilling of Archaeologica, is now the product of our dedicated volunteer team. Read by Laura Kennedy, the Audio News is compiled from Archaeologica’s daily news updates. The musical interludes are original compositions by Anthony Kennedy. The Audio News from Archaeologica is compiled from Archaeologica.org's daily news updates.
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Audio News for September 29th through October 5th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists discover large cemetery of Viking skeletons (details) More than 1000 clay tablets returned from Chicago to Iran (details) Walrus ivory shows interactions between Vikings and Indigenous North Americans (details) (details) South African site shows 9,000 years of genetic continuity (details)(det…
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Audio News for September 22nd through the 28th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Identified Nazca Lines nearly doubled with assistance from AI model (details)(details) Surprise discovery of centuries-old sweet potato cultivation in New Zealand (details)(details) DNA analysis reveals gender imbalance in the Neolithic necropolis of Panoría (details)(details) Bronze Age find reveals second…
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Audio News for September 15th through the 21st, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Analysis of America's oldest tombstone illuminates colonial era trade networks (details) South African rock art may depict animal that went extinct before dinosaurs (details) (details) Mystery man interred under Notre-Dame nave was noted French poet (details) Isotopic and stylistic analysis reveals The Lion…
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Audio News for September 8th through the 14th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA of 'Thorin,' one of the last Neanderthals, finally sequenced, revealing inbreeding and 50,000 years of genetic isolation (details) (details) Easter Island's population never collapsed, but it did have contact with Native Americans, DNA study suggests (details) (details) Archaeologists challenge theory o…
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Audio News for September 1st through the 7th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Scientist rules out Orkney origin for Stonehenge Altar Stone (details) Roman silver coins may have been hidden from pirates (details) New model reveals how climate impacted human dispersal over Europe (details) Activists memorialize New York cemetery for enslaved people (details) å…
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Audio News for August 25th through the 31st, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 17th century samurai sword found in German WWII rubble (details) Study finds sacrificed Inca child had violent death (details) Mysterious Nordic burial ground for children unearthed (details) Missing WWII USAF pilot identified at Sicilian crash site (details) å…
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Audio News for August 18th through the 24th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Unearthed Peru temple burials predate Inca empire by millennia (details) New planted spear idea upends view of how prehistoric hunters downed huge prey (details) (details) Ancient burial site spanning over 2,100 years located under zoo in south China (details) 8,000-year old female figurine in Turkish Neoli…
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Audio News for August 11th through the 17th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Altar Stone at Stonehenge matches the bedrock found in Scotland (details) (details) Giant stone glyph uncovered on the bottom of a Maya sacred pool (details) Neanderthals in southern Pyrenees were highly capable and adaptable (details) (details) West Papua cave reveals early pathway for seafaring migrants i…
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Audio News for August 4th through the 10th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New fossils provide insights into development of extinct hominin species (details) New proposal for abandonment of ancient American settlement of Cahokia (details) (details) Göbekli Tepe might show world’s oldest calendar (details) (details) Excavation of Chinese bone needle workshop shows developments in a…
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Audio News for July 28th through August 3rd, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Burial site used throughout Iron and Bronze ages unearthed in Germany (details) (details) Remains of affluent life in 17th century Williamsburg unearthed in Virginia (details) Chinese Bronze Age human sacrifice shows reinforcement of social status (details) Virtual dissection conducted of 3,500 year old “Sc…
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Audio News for July 21st through the 27th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Workshop buried in Sanxingdui Ruins offers clues to ancient jade and stone sourcing, crafting, distribution (details) (details) Lake draining helps team find proof of ancient pre-Vikings in Norway (details) Genetics show how ancient wild Four Corners potato became widespread staple (details) (details) Excav…
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Audio News for July 14th through the 20th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists uncover underwater rock carvings of Egyptian pharaohs (details) Early humans in South America arrived early and ate armadillos (details) (details) Ancient circular stone structures in Saudi Arabia indicate inhabitants were sophisticated thinkers (details) (details) New geologic dating shows e…
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Audio News for July 7th through the 13th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman garden may have belonged to Caligula (details) Hittite royal seal warns of punishment (details) Plant remains show how early farming unfolded in east Africa (details)(details) Peruvian temple and theater are four thousand years old (details) åDoor Archaeological Legacy Institute
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Audio News for June 30th through July 6th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Novel analysis of cave bone fragments brings lives of extinct humans on the Tibetan plateau into focus (details) (details) Newly discovered Venezuelan rock art may point to an unknown culture (details) (details) Australia’s oldest known wooden artifacts document Aboriginal rituals (details) (details) Analys…
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Audio News for June 23rd through the 29th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Groundbreaking discovery in tomb-filled capital of Korea's ancient Silla Kingdom (details) Laser sensors pierce forest canopy to reveal forgotten Maya settlements (details) Gravitational wave science helps solve mystery of ancient analog computer (details) First discovery of Neanderthal with Down syndrome c…
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Audio News for June 16th through the 22nd, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Medieval stone catapult balls found at Kenilworth Castle (details) Sweet find in the cellars of Mount Vernon (details) Protein analysis reveals human blood in plaster used on royal tomb in Benin (details) Remains of Celtic people at Swiss site show violent death, probably in a bridge collapse (details)…
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Audio News for June 9th through the 15th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Dietary evidence shows how a Bronze Age city in Syria survived (details) Glass beads reveal Indigenous American trade networks (details)(details) New evidence shows where survivors of Vesuvius eruption resettled (details) Dating for the world’s oldest wooden sculpture (details)(details)…
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Audio News for June 2nd through the 8th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cooking techniques of Mongolian nomads revealed (details) (details) Woman warrior uncovered among 25 warrior monks in Spain (details) (details) (details) Prehistoric South American rock art served as possible territory markers (details) (details) (details) Study proposes that Seahenge was built to extend th…
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Audio News for May 26th through June 1st, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 4,000 year old tablet reveals Anatolian business plan (details)(details) Ancient Egyptians may have performed cancer-treating surgeries (details)(details) Characteristics of prehistoric Central European burial mounds may indicate trends in inequality (details)(details) Seven-century-old ceremonial offerings…
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Audio News for May 19th through the 25th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Found: a forgotten, fiery moment in Hannibal's Iron Age war (details)(details)(details) Chile’s Tagua Tagua Lake served as the hunting ground for early elephants (details)(details)(details) Vikings ship horses up to 900 miles across Baltic Sea (details)(details) Greek Marines prove Bronze Age body armor was…
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Audio News for May 12th through the 18th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Thriving ancient Roman town lasted longer than believed (details) Genomes of modern viruses found in Neanderthal bones (details) Lake District stone circle may be 700 years older than Stonehenge (details) Pair buried in embrace on a horse weren't lovers, but related women (details)…
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Audio News for May 5th through the 11th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman shipwreck held fish sauce (details)(details) New linguistic model shows four waves of migration into the Americas (details)(details) Microarchaeology provides new precision for early history of Jerusalem (details)(details) English study shows leprosy could come from Medieval red squirrels (details)(de…
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Audio News for April 28th through May 4th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Pueblo communicated through conch-shell trumpets (details) Ritual and medicinal plant DNA preserved under ancient Maya ball court (details)(details) Neanderthal woman’s face is reconstructed (details) Paleolithic North African hunter-gatherers ate plant-based diet (details)(details)…
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Audio News for April 21st through the 27th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA analysis illuminates social practices of an ancient Eurasian warrior empire (details)(details)(details) Preserved Pre-Revolutionary War cherries unearthed at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (details)(details) Rare structures may have guided Neolithic farmers to the afterlife (details)(details) Interdis…
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Audio News for April 14th through the 20th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 18th Century cleft palate prosthesis found in mouth of Polish crypt skeleton (details)(details)(details) Excavations off Great Barrier Reef prove early Aboriginal Australians crafted pottery (details)(details) Analysis of pyramid damage suggests Teotihuacan suffered through five damaging earthquakes (detail…
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Audio News for April 7th through the 13th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly discovered Pompeii paintings tell of the Trojan War (details) New research in Tonga reveals high population living in low-density city system (details) Virginia dig at historic log house documents Black American life after Civil War (details) 1800-year-old clay seal reveals name of Sassanid city (deta…
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Audio News for March 31st through April 6th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Air Force unit in New Mexico uncovers prehistoric site (details) Paleolithic wooden tools from Germany show diverse woodworking techniques (details) (details) Eggshells from Central Asian sites show the rapid spread of domesticated chickens (details) (details) Sand sculpture on South African coast suggests …
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Audio News for March 24th through the 30th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Horse trading in Medieval Europe was crucial part of everyday life (details)(details) Iranian Plateau served as hub for early human migration (details)(details) Ancient Peru experienced violence and crisis during political upheaval (details) Island time capsule in northwestern Australia (details)(details)…
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Audio News for March 17th through the 23rd, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Aztec books depicting life before the Spanish now publicly owned (details) Food study points to interactions between South Americans and Polynesians (details) Preserved remains of English Bronze Age village reveal details of daily life (details) Sophisticated canoes shine light on technical skills in the Ne…
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Audio News for March 10th through the 16th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 3,300-year-old clay tablet describes cataclysmic invasion of four Hittite Empire cities (details)(details) Largest ever South Asian whole-genome analysis points to single major migration to India from Africa 50,000 years ago (details)(details) Mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg could be largest …
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Audio News for March 3rd through the 9th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 14 wrecked ships in Bahamas may offer insight to life in the slave trade (details) 7,000-year-old burial cave in Spain includes Neanderthal-era goat bones (details) Oldest stone tools in Europe hint strongly at east-to-west migration (details) Medieval Spanish astrolabe has both Islamic and Hebrew inscripti…
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Audio News for February 25th through March 2nd, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Medieval French abbey reveals historical structure with over 1,000 burials (details) Obsidian blade from Texas suggests a link to Coronado’s expedition (details)(details) Genetic evidence shows that French Mesolithic hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding (details)(details) Temple excavation indicates Philisti…
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Audio News for February 18th through the 24th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Danish gold ring suggests ties to important kingdom (details) Neanderthal tool design reveals higher-level thinking (details)(details) Historic armor reveals aspects of early colonial America (details) Local origins of the mysterious multicultural mummies in far western China (details)(details)…
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Audio News for February 11th through the 17th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Mesolithic megastructure in the Baltic Sea offers insight into early hunter-gatherers (details)(details) Patagonian rock art served as a generational communication tool (details)(details) Stone Age skeleton study reveals life story (details)(details)(details) New radiocarbon dating suggests independence of …
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Audio News for February 4th through the 10th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Spanish Bronze Age gold hoard contains meteorite metal (details)(details) Archaeologists discover Roman era bone container filled with poisonous seeds (details)(details) Transition from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to farmers was a violent affair (details)(details)(details) Fascinating but challenging Amazo…
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Audio News for January 28th through February 3rd, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: German cave shows modern humans replaced Neanderthals locally by 45,000 years ago (details)(details) Footprints on a Moroccan beach are oldest human trackway from the region (details) Salvage dig in looted Maya tomb uncovers jade mosaic mask (details) Cold, dry years may have made plagues worse during the R…
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Audio News for January 21st through the 27th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeomagnetic dating pinpoints construction of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate (details) Amateur archaeologists unearth a Roman dodecahedron in central England (details) Peruvian sites show even early hunters lived mostly on plant foods (details) New analysis confirms which relatives of Alexander the Great occupy t…
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Audio News for January 14th through the 20th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Gum disease, tooth decay common among Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (details) Like-new 14th century gauntlet discovered in Switzerland (details) New study reveals origins of western Europeans (details) Woolly mammoths shared habitat with earliest human settlements in Alaska (details)…
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Audio News for January 7th through the 13th, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First Roman tombs dug directly into rock found in Egypt (details) Colossal Bronze Age rampart discovered around one of Arabia's longest oases (details) (details) Deep in Amazon rainforest, lasers reveal oldest cities yet (details) (details) (details) Grave of tall man with long sword may shed light on medie…
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Audio News for December 31st, 2023, through January 6, 2024
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cerne Giant was probably Hercules, and rallied early Medieval farmers fighting off Viking invaders (details) New palace found in central China, dating to fabled Xia Dynasty (details) Archaeologists at Tulum find Maya burial cave (details) Bronze buckles from central Europe may show beliefs of lost pagan cul…
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Audio News for December 24th through the 30th, 2023
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study shows how quickly Patagonian natives adopted the horse (details) Europe’s first mega-sites thrived on a mostly vegetarian diet (details) Now underwater, northwest Australia’s continental shelf once was settled (details) Pompeii dig finds group of terracotta figurines honoring the cult goddess Cybe…
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Audio News for December 17th through the 23rd, 2023
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Discovery of cat and human-like figures on geoglyphs in Peru (details) New proof that Viking dentistry was remarkably advanced (details) Dental anthropologists connect all Native Americans to one East Asian migration (details) Cutting edge forensics show how nomadic man in ancient Britain ended up far from …
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Audio News for December 10th through the 16th, 2023
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Mongolia may be home to modern horse-riding equipment (details) Excavation of Pompeiian bakery shows the grim life of enslaved people (details) New Mesa Verde area rock art finds show complex cosmology and motifs (details) Curse invoking Beelzebub found in medieval German latrine (details)…
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Audio News for December 3rd through the 9th, 2023
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Neolithic builders used simple tools, complex planning to build the Menga Dolmen (details) DNA research shows Slavic migration into the Balkans began in late Roman times (details) In Siberia, world's oldest fortress challenges view of how societies developed (details) Ruins of first rural Wari Empire comple…
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Audio News for November 26th through December 2nd, 2023
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bone biographies” tell tales of medieval England’s common folk (details) New insights into 9,000 year-old shaman and infant burial (details) New study suggests Maya purified water with plants (details) Ancient carved trees shine light on Wiradjuri culture (details)…
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Audio News for November 19th through the 25th, 2023
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 2,000 clay stamps found in ancient Roman municipal archive building (details) Ancient Egyptian baboon DNA reveals location of fabled port city of Punt (details) Ancient DNA reveals Uto-Aztecan languages spread to California 1,000 years earlier than thought (details) Archaeologists identify civilization-savi…
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Audio News for November 12th through the 18th, 2023
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Melting ice in British Columbia reveals many sites with bone, wood and obsidian tools (details) New site in southwest Norway may be earliest evidence of regional agriculture (details) Lion mosaic found above theater in northwestern Turkey, used by Roman cult (details) Study of Aboriginal agriculture aims to…
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Audio News for November 5th through the 11th, 2023
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ukrainian skull fragments produce genomic links to modern Europeans (details) Mass burial of headless skeletons chronicles violent end to Chinese Neolithic village (details) Stunning find of over 30,000 Fourth Century bronze coins hints at Mediterranean shipwreck (details) Maya architecture at Edzná and Chi…
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Audio News for October 29th through November 4th, 2023
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Evidence of human blood, bodily fluids, and psychotropic drugs found in ancient Egyptian mug (details) (details) Circular structure’s possible link to Maya serpent deity may be key to true identity of El Tigre (details) 700-year-old shipwreck reveals prosperity of China’s Maritime Silk Road (details) Eviden…
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Audio News for October 22nd through the 28th, 2023
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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ming dynasty stone grenades found in Great Wall dig (details) Mexico releases statement about huge painted stone snake head (details) Odd rock in medieval French painting is million-year-old Acheulean hand axe (details) Technology helped Saharan kingdom tap an underground aquifer (details)…
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