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.
Andean site with thousands of holes; correlating human and dog migration; ancient port in Toulon, France; Denisovan DNA nearly absent in ancient Japan
Roman roads more extensive; early stone tool technology in Kenya; early Maya city as cosmogram; surprising Ice Age sites in Iberian highlands
Southern Africa as human point of origin; Maya politics and culture at Ek Balam; Crimea Neanderthal remains connect with Central Asia; Nigeria excavations highlight Kingdom of Benin
Stone-tool linkage between North America and Asia; key adjustment of Egyptian chronology; Cahokia wooden pole; early Australians may not have caused megafauna extinctions
Non-human hominids could make stone tools; Minoan labyrinth; Maya salt production at underwater site; Egyptian plague might not have happened
How Easter Island moai statues walked; new dates for Egypt’s Karnak temple; ritual platforms aided Chinese unification; psychedelic beer in ancient Peru
Earliest city in China; later emergence of Bering Land Bridge; large role of megafauna in South American Ice Age diets; how Bronze Age cities in Turkey adapted to drought
Very early jewelry workshop in France; pre-Hispanic structures in poorly documented Mexican state; surprisingly early horses in Sicily; million-year-old skulls in China
Exploding comet at Clovis sites; smoke-dried mummies; identity of woman honored by Roman sculpture; underwater port and Cleopatria’s tomb
Very early intentional burial; ancient red floor in Neolithic Turkey; newly uncovered city in Peru; post-Roman British metal production
Paleolithic indigo dye; West African tool workshop; Kazakhstan burial mounds; frog sculpture from the Peruvian Caral civilization
Pre-agriculture development in Uzbekistan; 3000-year-old Peruvian mural; 10,000 years of use in Scottish field.