The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

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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.

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Audio News for May 5th through the 11th, 2024

May 13 2024 13 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman shipwreck with fish sauce; linguistic analysis posits four early American migrations; new precision for Jerusalem’s early history; and leprosy and squirrels in Medieval England.

Audio News for April 28th through May 4th, 2024

May 06 2024 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Soundscapes in Chaco Canyon; ritual plant traces beneath Maya ball court; Neanderthal face reconstructed; and plant-based diet for Paleolithic North Africans.

Audio News for April 21st through the 27th, 2024

Apr 29 2024 12 mins

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.

Audio News for April 14th through the 20th, 2024

Apr 22 2024 12 mins

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.

Audio News for April 7th through the 13th, 2024

Apr 15 2024 13 mins

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.

Audio News for March 31st through April 6th, 2024

Apr 08 2024 14 mins

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.

Audio News for March 24th through the 30th, 2024

Apr 01 2024 12 mins

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.

Audio News for March 17th through the 23rd, 2024

Mar 25 2024 13 mins

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.

Audio News for March 10th through the 16th, 2024

Mar 18 2024 12 mins

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.

Audio News for March 3rd through the 9th, 2024

Mar 11 2024 15 mins

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.