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.
Oldest alphabet; hidden text in Blue Qur’an; natural selection in ancient DNA; forgotten Bermuda settlement
Precise location of ancient Islamic battle; early Maya salt production in Belize; manual dexterity in australopithecines; earlier date for Greek Renaissance
Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform; DNA of Pompeii body casts; Ice Age stone tablets picturing fishing nets; child sacrifice in Peru
Temple of Poseidon in Greece; Polynesians' southernmost voyage; Maya urbanism in Campeche; Bronze Age settlement at Saudi oasis
Sanctuary at Minoan palace; wheel development in Carpathian Mountains; forgotten historic settlement in Amazonia; high-altitude urban center along Silk Road
Columbus’ DNA points to Jewish heritage; burial chamber in Petra; newly found Moche murals in Peru; intact Viking skeletons in Denmark
Shell-ring villages in Southeastern US; early jade trade in China; early Neolithic longhouse in Poland; Scythian-like horse sacrifice in southern Siberian tomb.
Large Viking cemetery; clay tablets returned to Iran; walrus ivory points to Norse contact with Indigenous people; genomic continuity in South Africa
AI finds more Nazca lines; early sweet potato in New Zealand; female bias in Neolithic Spain; world’s oldest cheese in Tarim Basin.
America’s oldest tombstone; extinct animal in South African rock art; identity of man interred in Notre-Dame; “The Lion of Venice” origin revealed
DNA reveals 50,000 years of Neanderthal genetic isolation; No self-inflicted depopulation of Easter Island; Iberian violent Steppe invasion disputed; Great Lakes region Clovis recurring campsite discovered.
Stonehenge Altar Stone Orkney-origin ruled out; Roman coins hidden from pirates?; Climate impacts on European human dispersal; New York enslaved peoples' cemetery memorialized.