Laura Kennedy,
Voice of the Audio News.
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 Pettigrew.
Exploding comet at Clovis sites; smoke-dried mummies; identity of woman honored by Roman sculpture; underwater port and Cleopatria’s tomb
Very early intentional burial; ancient red floor in Neolithic Turkey; newly uncovered city in Peru; post-Roman British metal production
Paleolithic indigo dye; West African tool workshop; Kazakhstan burial mounds; frog sculpture from the Peruvian Caral civilization
Pre-agriculture development in Uzbekistan; 3000-year-old Peruvian mural; 10,000 years of use in Scottish field.
Tidal cause for Sumerian irrigation infrastructure; spread of Neolithic farmers into central Europe; Denisovan genes in Indigenous Americans; isotope analysis of Stonehenge cow tooth
Drought and the Yucatán Maya; silver Viking-Age hoard in England; die-cast coins in SE Asia; Neolithic cannibalism
New Maya population estimate; very old Sulawesi artifacts; post-eruption Pompeii inhabitants; DNA study of southern Caucasus
Shroud of Turin study; English Medieval dental study shows effects of malnutrition; distant source for Maya Blue pigment; Czech Republic Celtic site with riches
Lost Maya city rediscovered; Paleolithic funerary ritual in Israel; bronze armor in the Czech Republic; Persian influence in Madagascar
Europe’s oldest lakeside site; tomb of first ruler of Caracol; animal-human disease linkage in European Neolithic; New Zealand heritage site under threat from the sea
Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue Research Foundation announce partnership to investigate the possible wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s missing aircraft
Oldest Egyptian genome; city discovered in Peru; Paleolithic wooden tools in China; Neanderthal bone boiling