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.
Long-hidden features under Exeter Cathedral; Teotihuacan-period village; first English slave fort in Africa; Switzerland arrowhead made from Estonian meteorite
300,000-year-old throwing stick in Germany; Iron Age burial in Britain was female; prehistoric sites help save Louisiana coastline; oldest curry.
Ben Franklin’s paper money; underground passages of the Zapotecs; gold coins hidden in medieval German monastery; Neolithic polishing stone in England.
Mosaics at Galilee synagogue; remarkably early human presence in South American cave; Viking grave goods in southern Norway; genetic data from 2 million year old African hominin
Huge hand-axes in England; early fiber technology in the Phillipines; large and aligned Mesolithic pits in England; 18,000-year-old date for Oregon rockshelter
Pizza-like image in Pompeii; agriculture and death rates in North America; more about seventh-century Anglo-Saxon girl; cannibalism among early human ancestors in Kenya.
Andean droughts and violence; muscular modeling of “Lucy”; warfare in European Neolithic; Bronze Age sword in Bavaria
Blood residues point to North American megafauna; early modern humans in Laotian cave; small-brained hominins in South African burials; new Bronze Age burial mounds near Stonehenge
Rare finds from poorly known culture in Iran; 12,000-year-old bird bone flutes in Israel; ritual offerings at Uxmal; malaria in Medici family
Ancient Armenian bakery’s 3,000-years-old wheat flour; Biblical Judean rulers -- even more G.I. issues than previously known; Australian boat rock art reveals link with Indonesian culture; Ancient flintknappers risked severe injury
World’s oldest blueprints; First battle site, French and Indian War; Mid-Pleistocene controlled cooking fires; Brittany multi-religion Roman temple
Megalithic tomb in Spain; Maya ballgame scoreboard; Germany’s oldest human footprints; Roman sites in Scotland