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.
Roman artifact in Ireland; wild boar domestication in China; traces of early Veracruz history; computer model of Neanderthal migration
AI Model Helps Date Dead Sea Scrolls Writing; Ancient Amerindian Crop Fields Suggest Advanced Social Order; Anatolian Tomb May Be for Relative of King Midas; Stone Age Philippines Islands’ Wide-Ranging Cultural Exchange
Copan DNA study; desert monuments in Oman; Iron Age hillfort cemetery in England; huge Brazilian slave cemetery
DNA study in eastern Spain; tomb in Kuelap, Peru; Homo erectus fragments from Indonesian sea floor; African figurines in Israel
Analysis of Aztec obsidian; pregnancy as seen by Vikings; relief depicting Assyrian king; analysis of Macedonian royal burials
Breakthrough reading of Herculaneum papyrus; confirming Britain origin of Bronze Age tin; swastika-engraved swords in Celtic necropolis; ritual drug use in ancient Peru
DNA links modern tribe with Chaco Canyon; text praising Ramses II on Luxor obelisk; early settlement on Scottish island; Milky Way in Egyptian art
Evidence for Roman-era human-animal gladiatorial combat; elite Caral woman from 5000 years ago; DNA of Punic populations; Mongolia’s earliest pottery
Social inequality study; modified human remains in Texas; origin of domestic cats; drought and barbarian invasion in Britain
Jawbone confirms Denisovans’ spread across Asia; Teotihuacan Altar confirms cultural crossover in Tikal city-state; South African cave’s ancient tools confirm connections among prehistoric peoples; Macedonian ruins might be those of long lost Lycestis capital.
Morocco Bronze Age not so empty; Stone tool innovations in Paleolithic China; Ancient weapon system found in Texas cave; Sutton Hoo helmet – Scandinavian origin?
Egalitarian funerary practices in Bronze Age Basur Höyük; Cultural significance of geophytes in North American prehistory; Wildfires threaten South Korean historic sites; Dog remains from Roman Britain reveal rituals and care