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The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica
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 Kennedy. The Audio News from Archaeologica is compiled from Archaeologica.org's daily news updates.
- 490 - Audio News for April 21st through the 27th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Avar DNA study; cherries unearthed at Mount Vernon; new cursus monuments in Ireland; and lunar alignment study at Stonehenge.
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 - 12min - 489 - Audio News for April 14th through the 20th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: left palate prosthesis in Poland; early Aboriginal Australian pottery; Teotihuacan earthquakes; and genomic study shows ancient Blackfoot origins.
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 - 12min - 488 - Audio News for April 7th through the 13th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New Pompeii frescoes; ancient city in Tonga; African-American log house excavation in Virginia; and clay seal bearing the name Shiraz.
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 - 13min - 487 - Audio News for March 31st through April 6th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Prehistoric camp on New Mexico Air Force base; Paleolithic wooden tools in Germany; chicken eggs in Central Asia; and purported early sandstone sculpture in South Africa.
Mon, 8 Apr 2024 - 14min - 486 - Audio News for March 24th through the 30th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Horse cemetery in London; Iranian Plateau as stopover for migrating humans; violence and crisis in ancient Peru; and island time capsule in Australia.
Mon, 1 Apr 2024 - 12min - 485 - Audio News for March 17th through the 23rd, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly documented Aztec codices; food traces evidence Easter Island contact with South America; Britain’s Pompeii; and advanced Neolithic boats in Italy.
Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 13min - 484 - Audio News for March 10th through the 16th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Clay tablet at Hittite site; huge India DNA study; mass grave in Nuremberg; and oldest bead in Western Hemisphere.
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 - 12min - 483 - Audio News for March 3rd through the 9th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wrecked slaver ships in the Bahamas; burial cave in Spain with suggestion of Neanderthals; Ukraine tools dated to 1.4 million years ago; and astrolabe from medieval Spain.
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 - 15min - 482 - Audio News for February 25th through March 2nd, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Medieval French abbey totally excavated; Texas obsidian blade attributed to Coronado expedition; French hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding; and plants used in Philistine temples.
Mon, 4 Mar 2024 - 15min - 481 - Audio News for February 18th through the 24th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Danish gold ring hints at royalty; Neanderthal adhesive grips; early colonial armor in Maryland; and DNA of mummies in far western China.
Mon, 26 Feb 2024 - 12min - 480 - Audio News for February 11th through the 17th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Baltic Sea Mesolithic megastructure; very old Patagonian pictographs; Danish bog body violently smashed; and dating supports independent invention of Easter Island script.
Mon, 19 Feb 2024 - 10min - 479 - Audio News for February 4th through the 10th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Meteoritic iron in Spanish Bronze Age hoard; poisonous seeds in Roman-age bone vial from Holland; ancient DNA in Denmark points to two sudden population replacements; and early human occupation of Amazon rainforest caves.
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 - 10min - 478 - Audio News for January 28th through February 3rd, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Modern humans early in central Germany; footprints on Moroccan beach; jade mosaic mask in royal Maya tomb; and cold periods and plagues in Roman Empire.
Mon, 5 Feb 2024 - 14min - 477 - Audio News for January 21st through the 27th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ishtar Gate firmly dated by archaeomagnetism; Roman dodecahedron in England; Peruvian hunters depended on plants; and identifying the royal tombs of Macedon.
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 - 12min - 476 - Audio News for January 14th through the 20th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Tooth decay in the Mesolithic; Medieval gauntlet in Switzerland; genetic origins of western Europeans; and woolly mammoths and early people in Alaska.
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 - 13min - 475 - Audio News for January 7th through the 13th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rock-cut tombs in Egypt; huge Bronze Age rampart in Saudi Arabia; hidden cities in the Amazon; and Medieval grave of tall Swede with long sword.
Mon, 15 Jan 2024 - 12min - 474 - Audio News for December 31st, 2023, through January 6, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Chalk figure on hillside in England; palace in central China; Maya burial cave in Tulum; and bronze buckles in central Europe.
Mon, 8 Jan 2024 - 13min - 473 - Audio News for December 24th through the 30th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Horse culture in Patagonia; vegetarian diet in early European mega-sites; early settlement of northwest Australia continental shelf; and figurines in Pompeii.
Mon, 1 Jan 2024 - 13min - 472 - Audio News for December 17th through the 23rd, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New geoglyph discoveries in Peru; proof of Viking dentistry; dental study of Native Americans; and DNA of Sarmatian man in Britain.
Mon, 25 Dec 2023 - 12min - 471 - Audio News for December 10th through the 16th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wooden saddle in Mongolian tomb; Pompeiian bakery reflects cruel treatment; extensive rock art in Mesa Verde area; and Medieval curse tablet in Germany.
Mon, 18 Dec 2023 - 12min - 470 - Audio News for December 3rd through the 9th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Sophistication of the Menga Dolmen in Spain; DNA of Slavic migration; world’s oldest fortress in Siberia; and unusual Wari Empire complex.
Mon, 11 Dec 2023 - 13min - 469 - Audio News for November 26th through December 2nd, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Skeletal study of medieval England common folk; Mesolithis shaman and infant burial in Germany; ancient Maya reservoir water purified by plants; and carved trees in Aboriginal Australia.
Mon, 4 Dec 2023 - 13min - 468 - Audio News for November 19th through the 25th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 2000 clay stamps in Roman archive; Egyptian baboon DNA points to Punt; DNA evidences early migration to California; and advanced hydraulic structure in Sumeria.
Mon, 27 Nov 2023 - 13min - 467 - Audio News for November 12th through the 18th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Tools revealed by melting British Columbia ice; southwest Norway site evidences early agriculture; lion mosaic in northwestern Turkey; and study of Australian Aboriginal agriculture.
Mon, 20 Nov 2023 - 12min - 466 - Audio News for November 5th through the 11th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Crimean DNA linked to early modern human in western Europe; headless skeletons in China; trove of coins off coast of Sardinia; and architecture connects Maya cities of Edzná and Chichén Itzá.
Mon, 13 Nov 2023 - 11min - 465 - Audio News for October 29th through November 4th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Complex mixture in ancient Egyptian mug; true identity of El Tigre; shipwreck exemplifies China’s Maritime Silk Road; and Neolithic warfare in Spain.
Mon, 6 Nov 2023 - 13min - 464 - Audio News for October 22nd through the 28th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Chinese stone grenades; Mexican painted snake head; Acheulean hand axe in Medieval painting; and ancient hydraulic engineering in the Sahara.
Mon, 30 Oct 2023 - 13min - 463 - Audio News for October 15th through the 21st, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Independent Copper Age settlements in Spain; Neanderthal fire in Portuguese cave; older dates for Puerto Rican cave art; and AI used to decipher carbonized Roman scrolls.
Mon, 23 Oct 2023 - 13min - 462 - Audio News for October 8th through the 14th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Neanderthals hunted lions, wore their pelts; pre-Columbian Caribbean cultures’ plant-based diets; Rise in cranial trauma accompanied initial urbanizations; and Stone Age herders prized their grinding tools.
Mon, 16 Oct 2023 - 11min - 461 - Audio News for October 1st through the 7th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hidden Amazonian structures; effects of prehistoric cosmic airburst; lush land-route for ancient African diaspora; and evidence of funerary cannibalism.
Mon, 9 Oct 2023 - 12min - 460 - Audio News for September 24th through the 30th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Chinese tomb inscription; Texas mummy constipation; unknown language in Hittite tablet; and intact arrow from thawing Norwegian glacier.
Mon, 2 Oct 2023 - 12min - 459 - Audio News for September 17th through the 23rd, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Black earth in the Amazon; sunken port city in Egypt; wood structure built by pre-humans; and Viking antler combs.
Mon, 25 Sep 2023 - 13min - 458 - Audio News for September 10th through the 16th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Skeleton in Turkey confirms ancient earthquake; humans wearing footwear 150,000 years ago; Medieval artifacts point to magic rituals on the Hajj; and millenium-old hirsute mummy in Lima, Peru.
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 - 12min - 457 - Audio News for September 3rd through the 9th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rare Chinese chime bells; diving bell off Florida coast; Roman swords in Dead Sea cave; and Israeli researcher proposes prey size affected technology advances.
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 - 13min - 456 - Audio News for August 27th through September 2nd, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Shanidar Cave flower burial debunked; ancient human population bottleneck; ancient Southern California wildfires; and Confederate skeletons at Civil War battlefield.
Mon, 4 Sep 2023 - 14min - 455 - Audio News for August 20th through the 26th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Proteins on ancient cauldrons; physical evidence of two Jerusalem destructions; drum-like dance floor in Peru; and DNA from 2900-year-old Assyrian brick.
Mon, 28 Aug 2023 - 12min - 454 - Audio News for August 13th through the 19th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early drainage system in China; Iceman Ötzi had dark skin; Medieval girl in England buried face down; and Nautilus shell beads in Indonesia.
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 - 14min - 453 - Audio News for August 6th through the 12th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age pyramid in Kazakhstan; early arrival of African cattle in the Americas; Europe’s oldest stilt village; and jawbone in China suggests unknown human lineage.
Mon, 14 Aug 2023 - 12min - 452 - Audio News for July 30th through August 5th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Long-hidden features under Exeter Cathedral; Teotihuacan-period village; first English slave fort in Africa; and Switzerland arrowhead made from Estonian meteorite.
Mon, 7 Aug 2023 - 14min - 451 - Audio News for July 23rd through the 29th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 300,000-year-old throwing stick in Germany; Iron Age burial in Britain was female; prehistoric sites help save Louisiana coastline; and oldest curry.
Mon, 31 Jul 2023 - 13min - 450 - Audio News for July 16th through the 22nd, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ben Franklin’s paper money; underground passages of the Zapotecs; gold coins hidden in medieval German monastery; and Neolithic polishing stone in England.
Mon, 24 Jul 2023 - 13min - 449 - Audio News for July 9th through the 15th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Mosaics at Galilee synagogue; remarkably early human presence in South American cave; Viking grave goods in southern Norway; and genetic data from 2 million year old African hominin.
Mon, 17 Jul 2023 - 13min - 448 - Audio News for July 2nd through the 8th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Huge hand-axes in England; early fiber technology in the Phillipines; large and aligned Mesolithic pits in England; and 18,000-year-old date for Oregon rockshelter.
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 - 10min - 447 - Audio News for June 25th through July 1st, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pizza-like image in Pompeii; agriculture and death rates in North America; more about seventh-century Anglo-Saxon girl; and cannibalism among early human ancestors in Kenya.
Mon, 3 Jul 2023 - 12min - 446 - Audio News for June 18th through the 24th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Andean droughts and violence; muscular modeling of “Lucy”; warfare in European Neolithic; and Bronze Age sword in Bavaria.
Mon, 26 Jun 2023 - 13min - 445 - Audio News for June 11th through the 17th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Blood residues point to North American megafauna; early modern humans in Laotian cave; small-brained hominins in South African burials; and new Bronze Age burial mounds near Stonehenge.
Mon, 19 Jun 2023 - 12min - 444 - Audio News for June 4th through the 10th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rare finds from poorly known culture in Iran; 12,000-year-old bird bone flutes in Israel; ritual offerings at Uxmal; and malaria in Medici family.
Mon, 12 Jun 2023 - 12min - 443 - Audio News for May 28th through June 3rd, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Armenian bakery’s 3,000-years-old wheat flour; Biblical Judean rulers -- even more G.I. issues than previously known; Australian boat rock art reveals link with Indonesian culture; and ancient flintknappers risked severe injury.
Mon, 5 Jun 2023 - 09min - 442 - Audio News for May 21st through the 27th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: World’s oldest blueprints; First battle site, French and Indian War; Mid-Pleistocene controlled cooking fires; and Brittany multi-religion Roman temple.
Mon, 29 May 2023 - 13min - 441 - Audio News for May 14th through the 20th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Megalithic tomb in Spain; Maya ballgame scoreboard; Germany’s oldest human footprints; and Roman sites in Scotland.
Mon, 22 May 2023 - 12min - 440 - Audio News for May 7th through the 13th, 2023.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA evidence for New World migrations from China; teenage colonist in Maryland; Indus Civilization decline by drought; and Neolithic road beneath Adriatic Sea.
Mon, 15 May 2023 - 12min - 439 - Audio News for April 30th through May 6th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Buddha in Egypt; submerged cemetery in Florida; AI model to translate cuneiform; and 150,000-year-old Senegalese site.
Mon, 8 May 2023 - 11min - 438 - Audio News for April 23rd through the 29th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wooden mask from Osaka; ancient Parisian cemetery; early Puerto Rico burials; and Spanish Pleistocene bone tool and early clothing.
Mon, 1 May 2023 - 15min - 437 - Audio News April 16th through the 22nd, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman Civil War Coins Found in Tuscany; DNA analysis reveals genetic diversity and dynastic politics of ancient empire; Medieval Norse Greenland settlers imported North American timber; and Blackbeard’s Coal Mystery -- not so much.
Mon, 24 Apr 2023 - 13min - 436 - Audio News April 9th through the 15th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age psychedelics use; Christian frescoes found at medieval African site; ancient Levant humans ambushed wild cows; and climatic deterioration may have driven decline.
Mon, 17 Apr 2023 - 12min - 435 - Audio News April 2nd through the 8th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New Miami finds set preservation against development; Roman moon goddess jewelry in Judea burial; Severed hands found in Egyptian palace pits; and South African cave suggests ancients there ate giant land snails.
Mon, 9 Apr 2023 - 13min - 434 - Audio News for March 26th through April 1st, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Swahili genetics; 6000-year-old fishhook in Israel; early horses in Indigenous America; and Roman artifacts in Brittany trash dump.
Mon, 3 Apr 2023 - 11min - 433 - Audio News for March 19th through the 25th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient bloodletting tools in Sudan; Zodiac reliefs in Egyptian temple; genomic analysis of Beethoven hair; and serpent sculpture at Chichén Itzá.
Mon, 27 Mar 2023 - 12min - 432 - Audio News for March 12th through the 18th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early steel in Iberia; Cypriot village as Bronze Age trading hub; Colchester Vase; and Wari pottery.
Mon, 20 Mar 2023 - 13min - 431 - Audio News for March 5th through the 11th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age ice skates in western China; evidence of horse-riding 5000 years ago; lake pollution by early Maya city; and Norse god Odin in early runic inscription.
Mon, 13 Mar 2023 - 14min - 430 - Audio News for February 26th through March 4th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Chinese city of Bicun; longevity of Mesoamerican cities; Iberia as Ice-Age refugium; and evidence of prehistoric TB in Ecuador.
Mon, 6 Mar 2023 - 12min - 429 - Audio News for February 19th through the 25th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Live artillery round at Gettysburg; ancient Vietnamese musical instrument; cattle-horn container in South Africa; and Bronze Age cranial surgery in Israel.
Mon, 27 Feb 2023 - 13min - 428 - Audio News for February 12th through the 18th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldowan tools in Kenya; Mexican burial mounds; early Medieval fortress in Spain; and lavish spices in Danish royal shipwreck.
Mon, 20 Feb 2023 - 13min - 426 - Audio News for February 5th through the 11th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Drought as cause for Hittite Empire collapse; climate windows for Beringia coastal migration; oldest North American bone spear point; and gold wires connected teeth of French female aristocrat.
Mon, 13 Feb 2023 - 13min - 425 - Audio News for January 29th through February 4th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rosetta Stone for ancient Amorite; large pits in Great Zimbabwe; Neanderthal elephant hunting; and underground aqueduct in Naples.
Mon, 6 Feb 2023 - 13min - 424 - Audio News for January 22nd through the 28th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early silver currency in Southern Levant; early Mesolithic human remains in northern England; huge moat under Old Jerusalem; and elite tombs in southwest Mexico.
Mon, 30 Jan 2023 - 11min - 423 - Audio News for January 15th through the 21st, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age well in Bavaria; 144 slave graves in South Carolina; Hunnic tomb in Romania; European Neolithic skeletons show frequent violence.
Mon, 23 Jan 2023 - 12min - 422 - Audio News for January 8th through the 14th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Origins of enslaved Africans; survey of European bog bodies; reconstruction of Jericho skull; and Medieval Italian skull reflects brutal murder.
Mon, 16 Jan 2023 - 14min - 421 - Audio News for January 1st through the 7th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Huge Viking hall in northern Jutland; indigenous dogs at Jamestown; new kurgan tomb in Siberia; and ancient flakes in Brazil made by monkeys.
Mon, 9 Jan 2023 - 15min
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