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.
English henge older than Stonehenge; non-elite burials beneath Nubian pyramids; Tibetan Plateau habitation during Glacial Maximum; artifacts returned to Honduras
Israeli cave connects modern and archaic humans; DNA shows early Mediterranean Sea crossings; unusual burial in Ecuador; ancient Greek tomb in Tenea
Ancient irrigation system in southern Iraq; DNA study highlights Celtic languages; ceramic “puppets” in El Salvador; oldest bone tools from Olduvai Gorge
Early track marks in New Mexico; DNA study of the Huns; Herculaneum glass brain; Göbekli Tepe
Newly found royal Egyptian tomb; LiDAR uncovers Zapotec site; plague before the Black Death; oldest Great Wall segment
Ancient Korean palace; human bones in the Thames; genetic origins of the Fulani pastoralists; ancient Colombian tombs
DNA unravels Indo-European languages; lost Greek text in Arabic manuscript; North American population fluctuations; virtual reading of Herculaneum scroll
Lost residence of King Harold; Amazon irrigation system; Roman sanctuary in Spanish cave; human-influenced sheep genomes
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