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.
Spanish galleon on Oregon coast; southern China DNA links to Americas; early Anglo-Saxon cemetery near London
Post-Conquest Aztec childrens’s remains; mosaic floor in Galilee; Stone-Age jewelry from northwestern Russia; ornate wooden sculpture in Peru
Older dates for South African hominins; Belize cave displays ancient Maya ritual; historic tomahawk repatriated; Netherlands Neolithic graves contradict gender roles
Story phrases: Paleolithic tools in Britain; new discoveries near Iranian hill village; protecting ancient American Southwest sites from fire; very old mosque in Israel
Story phrases: Arabian peninsula drought as factor in rise of Islam; early democratic systems in the Americas; early fruit tree cultivation in Jordan Valley; early evidence for Black Death in Central Asia
Story phrases: Chicken origins in Thailand; unique artifacts from Medieval Oslo; famous seventeenth-century English shipwreck; evidence of advanced corn processing comes from Maya latrine pits.
Bronze Age city emerges from reservoir in Iraq; Roman military amphitheater in Israel; long record of art in Spanish cave; Harvard collection of human remains
Climate change and Endurance shipwreck; Chinese incense with distant sources; Denisovan molar in Laos; Ukrainian soldiers find ancient amphorae
Climate change and Endurance shipwreck; Chinese incense with distant sources; Denisovan molar in Laos; Ukrainian soldiers find ancient amphorae
Uruguay DNA reveals vanished population; favorite birds of medieval Estonians; giant statues in Sardinia; underground Neo-Assyrian worship site in SE Turkey
Lone Neolithic woman in France buried with many men; large Indigenous cave painting in Alabama; new data on Mesolithic Stonehenge environment; sustainable prehistoric Indigenous oyster management
Medieval Norwegian town; Neanderthals in Lower Saxony; meat in Anglo-Saxon diets; Nevada tribes oppose lithium mine