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.
Ancient Chinese think tank; Native-American burning practices in the Klamath Mountains; mysterious Roman site in England; ritual deposit of starfish in Aztec temple.
Too re-use by early humans; linen and oil in ancient Levant; new Pictish symbol stone in Scotland; Monte Albán frieze decoded.
Gravesites at Canadian school for indigenous children; Stonehenge as a calendar; child sacrifice in ancient Peru; geologic source for Willendorf Venus.
Meteoric iron in King Tut’s dagger; surgery performed on 5000-year-old skull from Spain; large Roman mosaic in London; study of 3000-year-old trousers from far western China.
Early Buddhist temple in Pakistan; new method shows drowning in ancient death; medieval Papal seal on Gotland; new traces of Coronado in Arizona
More terracotta warriors; earlier arrival of modern humans in western Europe; huge cache of inscribed sherds in Egypt; hallucinogens as source of power in ancient Peru
Long-distance trade by Indigenous Australians; cosmic catastrophe for the Ohio Valley Hopewell; threaded vertebrae reflect Conquistador atrocity; early cave dwellers knew where to place their hearth.
Israeli Late Glacial site shows abundance; new questions about early Home meat eating; ground-penetrating radar results from Poverty Point; UK peatlands drying out.
Ancient Chinese royal tomb with sacrificed warriors; Bronze Age highways in Saudia Arabia; pottery residues show very ancient West African cuisine; hybrid horse-like animal in Mesopotamia
New date for early African skull; leather scale armor in western China; Medieval warhorses were small; African script shows stages of development
Royal falconer statuette in Norway; horned helmets in Denmark are Bronze-Age; parasites from royal toilet in Jerusalem; drought-resistant Maya food plants
Lice glue and early Argentine culture; Chinese tomb murals; virtual unwrapping of pharaoh’s mummy; ancient city in eastern Iran