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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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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

Royal burial sites in early medieval Britain; ancient game dice in India; study challenging pre-Clovis North American sites; northern lights in early Chinese text

Ancient Chilean tsunami; huge stone jars in India; earliest Maya calendar dates; start date for Antikythera Mechanism

Vanilla Flavored Wine 2,600 Years Ago; Avar Migration from Mongolia; Neolithic Human Genome Changes; Insights into Mexico’s 19th Century French Invasion.