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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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Bronze Age well in Bavaria; 144 slave graves in South Carolina; Hunnic tomb in Romania; European Neolithic skeletons show frequent violence

Origins of enslaved Africans; survey of European bog bodies; reconstruction of Jericho skull; Medieval Italian skull reflects brutal murder

Huge Viking hall in northern Jutland; indigenous dogs at Jamestown; new kurgan tomb in Siberia; ancient flakes in Brazil made by monkeys

Idaho projectile points are the oldest in North America; very ancient use of bear skins; precious Australian rock art defaced; artifacts recovered from lost Canadian Arctic exploration ship

LiDAR survey result from Guatemala; human ancestors as sailors in the Aegean Sea; cultural transmission of prehistoric pottery; Jewish burial cave turned Christian pilgrimage site.

Drought as cause of Huns’ attack on Rome; Basiin of Mexico mountains as solar observatory; rare coin from Jewish-Roman War; many new Nazca geoglyphs.

 Early Neolithic narrative scene in Anatolia; food remains in Colosseum sewers; early medieval female burial in Britain; oldest evidence of Maya calendar

DNA of European Ashkenazi Jews; stucco masks from Classic Maya city; complex cooking by ancient human ancestors; solstice alignment of Egyptian tomb

Monkey remains at Teotihuacan; Neanderthal tools on UK tidal flats; Iceman remains might have shifted long ago; ancient shipwreck deep on Norway lake

Amazing new Saqqara discoveries; surprisingly ancient signs of intentional cooking; human remains from Revolutionary War battlefield; New Mexico footprints dating contested.

Tuscany spring with Etruscan and Roman artifacts; tunnel beneath temple near Alexandria; some Southwestern parrot bones may be local; ivory comb in Israel with oldest alphabetic sentence.

South American DNA; rare Ogham inscription in Scotland; commercial district in Ephesus; DNA of watermelon.