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Audio News from Archaeologica

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Laura Pettigrew

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. 

 

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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

Denisovans on the Tibetan plateau; newly discovered rock art in Venezuela; wooden artifacts show great age for continuing Aboriginal ritual; tomb in France helps explain modern European genome

Ancient Korean royal tomb; LiDAR survey of Yucatan Maya sites; 21st century science applied to Antikythera Mechanism; Neanderthal child with Down Syndrome

Stone catapult balls in England; intact bottles of preserves at Mount Vernon; human blood in West African plaster; Celtic human remains with collapsed bridge in Switzerland

Bronze Age city in Syria; Indigenous American glass beads; survivors of Vesuvius; world’s oldest wooden sculpture