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.
Romania yields earliest hominin evidence; Tiwanaku growth after ashfall; Australian earth rings; origin of money
Visible object may be Earhart aircraft; Inca tunnel system in Cusco; burial analysis indicates Celtic matrilineal system in Britain; newly uncovered Pompeii bathhouse
Sutton Hoo burials linked to Byzantium; early specialization in northern Iraq; genetic history of eastern Indonesia; strontium isotope map of Africa
Medieval female warrior in Hungary; DNA reveals historic European migrations; 18th-century Russian ship in Iran; angel murals in old Boston church
Aegean shipwreck with 10,000 plates; genomes reflect Indo-European language branching; huge villa in Assyrian capital; ancient Peruvian tomb with family members sacrificed
Early Christian amulet in Germany; Bronze Age massacre in Britain; Alexander the Great battle site; syphilis origin in the Americas
Saint Nicholas sarcophagus; Neanderthal-modern human interbreeding date; oldest communal ritual; Andrew Jackson slave cemetery
Early government control in northern Iraq; undeciphered script on Georgian tablet; early human-canid relationship in Alaska; discoveries beneath Notre Dame Cathedral
Site in Spain with Europe’s first pre-planned stone tools; more Liangzhu dams; pre-Maya canals for fishing in Belize; Kenya footprints of different simultaneous hominins.
Oldest alphabet; hidden text in Blue Qur’an; natural selection in ancient DNA; forgotten Bermuda settlement
Precise location of ancient Islamic battle; early Maya salt production in Belize; manual dexterity in australopithecines; earlier date for Greek Renaissance
Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform; DNA of Pompeii body casts; Ice Age stone tablets picturing fishing nets; child sacrifice in Peru