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.
Large Viking cemetery; clay tablets returned to Iran; walrus ivory points to Norse contact with Indigenous people; genomic continuity in South Africa
AI finds more Nazca lines; early sweet potato in New Zealand; female bias in Neolithic Spain; world’s oldest cheese in Tarim Basin.
America’s oldest tombstone; extinct animal in South African rock art; identity of man interred in Notre-Dame; “The Lion of Venice” origin revealed
DNA reveals 50,000 years of Neanderthal genetic isolation; No self-inflicted depopulation of Easter Island; Iberian violent Steppe invasion disputed; Great Lakes region Clovis recurring campsite discovered.
Stonehenge Altar Stone Orkney-origin ruled out; Roman coins hidden from pirates?; Climate impacts on European human dispersal; New York enslaved peoples' cemetery memorialized.
Samurai sword in Germany; violent death of Inca child sacrifice; children’s cemetery in Norway; US WWII pilot identified in Sicily
Early Peru temple burials; “planted spear” hypothesis for megafauna hunters; cemetery beneath Chinese zoo; Neolithic female figurine in Turkey
Scotland origin for Stonehenge Altar Stone; giant Maya stone glyph; Neanderthals in southern Pyrenees; early dates for West Papua cave
Iron Age cremations in Germany; early Williamsburg home; Chinese Bronze Age human sacrifice; analysis of “Screaming Woman” mummy
Ancient Chinese workshop; pre-Viking Sami site in Norway; Four Corners potato; Mithras temple in SE Anatolia
Underwater inscriptions in Egypt; early armadillo-eating South Americans; Neolithic stone structures in Saudi Arabia; earliest European hominins in Spain
Caligula’s garden; warning in Hittite royal seal; plant remains and East African farming; very old Peruvian temple and theater