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Audio News for February 9th through the 15th, 2025 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists uncover Silla Kingdom palace site, revealing royal structures and advanced engineering
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Ancient skeletons found in the Thames may indicate Bronze and Iron Age conflicts
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Study uncovers complex genetic origins of the Fulani, one of Africa’s largest pastoral groups
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Audio News for February 2nd through the 8th, 2025 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Roots of Indo-European languages revealed by ancient DNA
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Arabic manuscript contains lost works of the Greek “Great Geometer” Apollonius
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Changes in North American Indigenous population outlined by radiocarbon-dated artifacts
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Interdisciplinary team peers inside Mount Vesuvius-damaged scroll
Audio News for January 26th through February 1st, 2025 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
English seaside residence identified as the lost site of King Harold's 11th-century home
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Unique drainage and irrigation system supported Amazon's first grain-based agrarian economy
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Roman sanctuary discovered deep within Spain’s key Paleolithic site
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DNA research traces the human-in
Audio News for January 19th through the 25th, 2025 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Oldest known presence of hominins in Europe found in Romania
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Volcanic ash may have helped develop ancient Bolivian city
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Human effort made Australia’s earth rings
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Audio News for January 12th through the 18th, 2025 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Amelia Earhart’s airplane possibly discovered in satellite imagery
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Archaeologists find underground Inca tunnel system
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Iron Age Celtic communities in Britain based on female lineage
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Excavators uncover opulent Pompeii bathhouse
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Audio News for January 5th through the 11th, 2025 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Anglo-Saxon connections with Byzantium shown in Sutton Hoo burials
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Pottery production in Iraq shows evidence of early specialization dating back 8,000 years
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Ancient DNA and human migrations shed light on the genetic history of Indonesia
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Audio News for December 29th, 2024, through January 4th, 2025 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Possible burial of a female medieval warrior located in Hungary
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New DNA analysis method brings historic European migrations into focus
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Eighteenth-century Russian cargo unearthed from a Caspian Sea shipwreck in Iran
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Colonial-era angel murals unearthed at h
Audio News for December 22nd through the 28th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Spectacular shipwreck bearing 10,000 ceramics lay untouched in Aegean for over a millennium
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Ancient genomes reveal Bronze Age branching of Indo-European language groups
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Villa double the size of US White House revealed within ancient Assyrian capital
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Audio News for December 15th through the 21st, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Silver amulet may reveal spread of Christianity north of the Alps
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Remains of 40 people from the Bronze Age reveal violent deaths
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Site of Alexander the Great’s most important battle is located
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Syphilis started in the Americas, not Europe
Audio News for December 8th through the 14th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists uncover sarcophagus that may belong to Saint Nicholas
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Two studies support new date of Neanderthals interbreeding with humans
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Manot Cave shows evidence of earliest communal ritual on Asian continent
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President Andrew Jackson’s slave cemetery
Audio News for December 1st through the 7th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New findings from Shakhi Kora evidence the first government system dates back to the 4th millennium
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Ancient undeciphered script found on tablet in Georgia
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New Alaska discoveries push human-canid relationship record back 2,000 years
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Audio News for November 24th through the 30th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
European Pleistocene lithics mark key development in human technological evolution
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Newly uncovered ancient dams showcase Liangzhu's advanced hydraulic engineering
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Pre-Columbian fishery system discovered in Belize sustained thousands
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Audio News for November 17th through the 23rd, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Newly discovered alphabet could be oldest in human history
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Cutting-edge imaging reveals hidden text in legendary Blue Qur'an
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Bermuda dig reveals forgotten Colonial-era history
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Audio News for November 10th through the 16th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Satellite imaging pinpoints location of ancient Islamic battle
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Earliest known Maya salt production site uncovered in Belize
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Dexterity in australopithecines like Lucy may have developed far earlier than thought
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Audio News for November 3rd through 9th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Mesopotamian cylinder seals linked to development of writing system
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DNA analysis challenges previous assumptions about Pompeii body casts
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Ice Age stone tablets show oldest known images of fishing nets
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Audio News for October 27th through November 2nd, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists discover bronze plaque with inscriptions at monumental temple of Poseidon in Greece
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New evidence reveals prehistoric Polynesians' southernmost voyage
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LiDAR technology reveals ancient Maya settlement patterns in Campeche
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Audio News for October 20th through the 26th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Rare Minoan sanctuary discovered at Archanes
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Copper Age Carpathian miners spurred developments in the wheel
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Forgotten colonial-era settlement found beneath the Amazon rainforest
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High-altitude settlements along the Silk Road puzzle archaeologists
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Audio News for October 13th through the 19th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New documentary suggest Columbus was of Spanish Jewish heritage
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Untouched burial chamber discovered beneath Petra’s ‘Treasury’
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Unearthed throne room suggests Peru's ancient Moche society had a female ruler
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Fifty well-preserved Viking era skeletons discovered in Den
Audio News for October 6th through the 12th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Rising and lowering sea levels influenced living patterns of earliest coastal villages
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Jade artifacts reveal evidence of trade between two cultures in ancient China
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Early Neolithic longhouse uncovered in Poland
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Scythian-like horse sacrifice in southern S
Audio News for September 29th through October 5th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists discover large cemetery of Viking skeletons
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More than 1000 clay tablets returned from Chicago to Iran
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Walrus ivory shows interactions between Vikings and Indigenous North Americans
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South African site shows 9,000 years of genetic continuity
Audio News for September 22nd through the 28th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Identified Nazca Lines nearly doubled with assistance from AI model
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Surprise discovery of centuries-old sweet potato cultivation in New Zealand
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DNA analysis reveals gender imbalance in the Neolithic necropolis of Panoría
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Bronze Age find reveals second orig
Audio News for September 15th through the 21st, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Analysis of America's oldest tombstone illuminates colonial era trade networks
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South African rock art may depict animal that went extinct before dinosaurs
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Mystery man interred under Notre-Dame nave was noted French poet
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Isotopic and stylistic analysis rev
Audio News for September 8th through the 14th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
DNA of 'Thorin,' one of the last Neanderthals, finally sequenced, revealing inbreeding and 50,000 years of genetic isolation
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Easter Island's population never collapsed, but it did have contact with Native Americans, DNA study suggests
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Archaeologists challenge theory of vio
Audio News for September 1st through the 7th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Scientist rules out Orkney origin for Stonehenge Altar Stone
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Roman silver coins may have been hidden from pirates
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New model reveals how climate impacted human dispersal over Europe
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Activists memorialize New York cemetery for enslaved people
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Audio News for August 25th through the 31st, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
17th century samurai sword found in German WWII rubble
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Study finds sacrificed Inca child had violent death
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Mysterious Nordic burial ground for children unearthed
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Missing WWII USAF pilot identified at Sicilian crash site
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Audio News for August 18th through the 24th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Unearthed Peru temple burials predate Inca empire by millennia
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New planted spear idea upends view of how prehistoric hunters downed huge prey
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Ancient burial site spanning over 2,100 years located under zoo in south China
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Audio News for August 11th through the 17th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Altar Stone at Stonehenge matches the bedrock found in Scotland
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Giant stone glyph uncovered on the bottom of a Maya sacred pool
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Neanderthals in southern Pyrenees were highly capable and adaptable
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West Papua cave reveals early p
Audio News for August 4th through the 10th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New fossils provide insights into development of extinct hominin species
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New proposal for abandonment of ancient American settlement of Cahokia
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Göbekli Tepe might show world’s oldest calendar
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Excavation of Chinese bone needle w
Audio News for July 28th through August 3rd, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Burial site used throughout Iron and Bronze ages unearthed in Germany
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Remains of affluent life in 17th century Williamsburg unearthed in Virginia
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Chinese Bronze Age human sacrifice shows reinforcement of social status
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Audio News for July 21st through the 27th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Workshop buried in Sanxingdui Ruins offers clues to ancient jade and stone sourcing, crafting, distribution
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Lake draining helps team find proof of ancient pre-Vikings in Norway
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Genetics show how ancient wild Four Corners potato became widespread staple
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Audio News for July 14th through the 20th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists uncover underwater rock carvings of Egyptian pharaohs
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Early humans in South America arrived early and ate armadillos
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Ancient circular stone structures in Saudi Arabia indicate inhabitants were sophisticated thinkers
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Audio News for July 7th through the 13th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Roman garden may have belonged to Caligula
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Hittite royal seal warns of punishment
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Plant remains show how early farming unfolded in east Africa
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Peruvian temple and theater are four thousand years old
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Audio News for June 30th through July 6th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Novel analysis of cave bone fragments brings lives of extinct humans on the Tibetan plateau into focus
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Newly discovered Venezuelan rock art may point to an unknown culture
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Australia’s oldest known wooden artifacts document Aboriginal rituals
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Audio News for June 23rd through the 29th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Groundbreaking discovery in tomb-filled capital of Korea's ancient Silla Kingdom
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Laser sensors pierce forest canopy to reveal forgotten Maya settlements
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Gravitational wave science helps solve mystery of ancient analog computer
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First discovery of Neanderthal with Down syndrome confir
Audio News for June 16th through the 22nd, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Medieval stone catapult balls found at Kenilworth Castle
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Sweet find in the cellars of Mount Vernon
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Protein analysis reveals human blood in plaster used on royal tomb in Benin
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Remains of Celtic people at Swiss site show violent death, probably in a bridge collapse
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Audio News for June 9th through the 15th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Dietary evidence shows how a Bronze Age city in Syria survived
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Glass beads reveal Indigenous American trade networks
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New evidence shows where survivors of Vesuvius eruption resettled
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Dating for the world’s oldest wooden sculpture
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Audio News for June 2nd through the 8th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Cooking techniques of Mongolian nomads revealed
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Woman warrior uncovered among 25 warrior monks in Spain
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Prehistoric South American rock art served as possible territory markers
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Audio News for May 26th through June 1st, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
4,000 year old tablet reveals Anatolian business plan
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Ancient Egyptians may have performed cancer-treating surgeries
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Characteristics of prehistoric Central European burial mounds may indicate trends in inequality
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Seven-century-old ceremonial offerings rec
Audio News for May 19th through the 25th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Found: a forgotten, fiery moment in Hannibal's Iron Age war
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Chile’s Tagua Tagua Lake served as the hunting ground for early elephants
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Vikings ship horses up to 900 miles across Baltic Sea
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Greek Marines prove Bronze Age body armor wasn't j
Audio News for May 12th through the 18th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Thriving ancient Roman town lasted longer than believed
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Genomes of modern viruses found in Neanderthal bones
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Lake District stone circle may be 700 years older than Stonehenge
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Pair buried in embrace on a horse weren't lovers, but related women
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Audio News for May 5th through the 11th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Roman shipwreck held fish sauce
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New linguistic model shows four waves of migration into the Americas
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Microarchaeology provides new precision for early history of Jerusalem
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English study shows leprosy could come from Medieval red squirrels
Audio News for April 28th through May 4th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ancient Pueblo communicated through conch-shell trumpets
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Ritual and medicinal plant DNA preserved under ancient Maya ball court
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Neanderthal woman’s face is reconstructed
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Paleolithic North African hunter-gatherers ate plant-based diet
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Audio News for April 21st through the 27th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
DNA analysis illuminates social practices of an ancient Eurasian warrior empire
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Preserved Pre-Revolutionary War cherries unearthed at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
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Rare structures may have guided Neolithic farmers to the afterlife
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Audio News for April 14th through the 20th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
18th Century cleft palate prosthesis found in mouth of Polish crypt skeleton
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Excavations off Great Barrier Reef prove early Aboriginal Australians crafted pottery
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Analysis of pyramid damage suggests Teotihuacan suffered through five damaging earthquakes
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Audio News for April 7th through the 13th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Newly discovered Pompeii paintings tell of the Trojan War
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New research in Tonga reveals high population living in low-density city system
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Virginia dig at historic log house documents Black American life after Civil War
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1800-year-old clay seal reveals name of Sassanid city
Audio News for March 31st through April 6th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Air Force unit in New Mexico uncovers prehistoric site
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Paleolithic wooden tools from Germany show diverse woodworking techniques
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Eggshells from Central Asian sites show the rapid spread of domesticated chickens
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Sand sculpture on South African coast suggests origi
Audio News for March 24th through the 30th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Horse trading in Medieval Europe was crucial part of everyday life
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Iranian Plateau served as hub for early human migration
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Ancient Peru experienced violence and crisis during political upheaval
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Island time capsule in northwestern Australia
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Audio News for March 17th through the 23rd, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Aztec books depicting life before the Spanish now publicly owned
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Food study points to interactions between South Americans and Polynesians
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Preserved remains of English Bronze Age village reveal details of daily life
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Sophisticated canoes shine light on technical skills in the Neolith
Audio News for March 10th through the 16th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
3,300-year-old clay tablet describes cataclysmic invasion of four Hittite Empire cities
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Largest ever South Asian whole-genome analysis points to single major migration to India from Africa 50,000 years ago
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Mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg could be largest ever in Europe
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Audio News for March 3rd through the 9th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
14 wrecked ships in Bahamas may offer insight to life in the slave trade
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7,000-year-old burial cave in Spain includes Neanderthal-era goat bones
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Oldest stone tools in Europe hint strongly at east-to-west migration
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Medieval Spanish astrolabe has both Islamic and Hebrew inscriptions
Audio News for February 25th through March 2nd, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Medieval French abbey reveals historical structure with over 1,000 burials
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Obsidian blade from Texas suggests a link to Coronado’s expedition
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Genetic evidence shows that French Mesolithic hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding
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Temple excavation indicates Philistine ri
Audio News for February 18th through the 24th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ancient Danish gold ring suggests ties to important kingdom
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Neanderthal tool design reveals higher-level thinking
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Historic armor reveals aspects of early colonial America
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Local origins of the mysterious multicultural mummies in far western China
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Audio News for February 11th through the 17th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Mesolithic megastructure in the Baltic Sea offers insight into early hunter-gatherers
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Patagonian rock art served as a generational communication tool
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Stone Age skeleton study reveals life story
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New radiocarbon dating suggests independence of the R
Audio News for February 4th through the 10th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Spanish Bronze Age gold hoard contains meteorite metal
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Archaeologists discover Roman era bone container filled with poisonous seeds
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Transition from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to farmers was a violent affair
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Fascinating but challenging Amazon rai
Audio News for January 28th through February 3rd, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
German cave shows modern humans replaced Neanderthals locally by 45,000 years ago
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Footprints on a Moroccan beach are oldest human trackway from the region
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Salvage dig in looted Maya tomb uncovers jade mosaic mask
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Cold, dry years may have made plagues worse during the Roman
Audio News for January 21st through the 27th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeomagnetic dating pinpoints construction of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate
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Amateur archaeologists unearth a Roman dodecahedron in central England
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Peruvian sites show even early hunters lived mostly on plant foods
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New analysis confirms which relatives of Alexander the Great occupy the ro
Audio News for January 14th through the 20th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Gum disease, tooth decay common among Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
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Like-new 14th century gauntlet discovered in Switzerland
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New study reveals origins of western Europeans
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Woolly mammoths shared habitat with earliest human settlements in Alaska
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Audio News for January 7th through the 13th, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
First Roman tombs dug directly into rock found in Egypt
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Colossal Bronze Age rampart discovered around one of Arabia's longest oases
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Deep in Amazon rainforest, lasers reveal oldest cities yet
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Grave of
Audio News for December 31st, 2023, through January 6, 2024 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Cerne Giant was probably Hercules, and rallied early Medieval farmers fighting off Viking invaders
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New palace found in central China, dating to fabled Xia Dynasty
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Archaeologists at Tulum find Maya burial cave
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Bronze buckles from central Europe may show beliefs of lost pagan cult
Audio News for December 24th through the 30th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study shows how quickly Patagonian natives adopted the horse
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Europe’s first mega-sites thrived on a mostly vegetarian diet
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Now underwater, northwest Australia’s continental shelf once was settled
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Pompeii dig finds group of terracotta figurines honoring the cult goddess Cybele
Audio News for December 17th through the 23rd, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Discovery of cat and human-like figures on geoglyphs in Peru
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New proof that Viking dentistry was remarkably advanced
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Dental anthropologists connect all Native Americans to one East Asian migration
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Cutting edge forensics show how nomadic man in ancient Britain ended up far from home
Audio News for December 10th through the 16th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Mongolia may be home to modern horse-riding equipment
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Excavation of Pompeiian bakery shows the grim life of enslaved people
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New Mesa Verde area rock art finds show complex cosmology and motifs
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Curse invoking Beelzebub found in medieval German latrine
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Audio News for December 3rd through the 9th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Neolithic builders used simple tools, complex planning to build the Menga Dolmen
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DNA research shows Slavic migration into the Balkans began in late Roman times
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In Siberia, world's oldest fortress challenges view of how societies developed
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Ruins of first rural Wari Empire complex une
Audio News for November 26th through December 2nd, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Bone biographies” tell tales of medieval England’s common folk
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New insights into 9,000 year-old shaman and infant burial
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New study suggests Maya purified water with plants
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Ancient carved trees shine light on Wiradjuri culture
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Audio News for November 19th through the 25th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
2,000 clay stamps found in ancient Roman municipal archive building
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Ancient Egyptian baboon DNA reveals location of fabled port city of Punt
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Ancient DNA reveals Uto-Aztecan languages spread to California 1,000 years earlier than thought
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Archaeologists identify civilization-saving te
Audio News for November 12th through the 18th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Melting ice in British Columbia reveals many sites with bone, wood and obsidian tools
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New site in southwest Norway may be earliest evidence of regional agriculture
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Lion mosaic found above theater in northwestern Turkey, used by Roman cult
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Study of Aboriginal agriculture aims to help
Audio News for November 5th through the 11th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ukrainian skull fragments produce genomic links to modern Europeans
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Mass burial of headless skeletons chronicles violent end to Chinese Neolithic village
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Stunning find of over 30,000 Fourth Century bronze coins hints at Mediterranean shipwreck
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Maya architecture at Edzná and Chichén
Audio News for October 29th through November 4th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Evidence of human blood, bodily fluids, and psychotropic drugs found in ancient Egyptian mug
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Circular structure’s possible link to Maya serpent deity may be key to true identity of El Tigre
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700-year-old shipwreck reveals prosperity of China’s Maritime Silk Road
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Audio News for October 22nd through the 28th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ming dynasty stone grenades found in Great Wall dig
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Mexico releases statement about huge painted stone snake head
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Odd rock in medieval French painting is million-year-old Acheulean hand axe
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Technology helped Saharan kingdom tap an underground aquifer
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Audio News for October 15th through the 21st, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Thriving Copper Age settlements in Spain were independent and cooperative
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Evidence of fire in Portuguese cave reveals Neanderthal intelligence
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Carbon dating cave art reveals new starting point for Puerto Rican history
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Computer student uses AI to decipher first word from carbonized R
Audio News for October 8th through the 14th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
First direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals
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Mummified poop reveals pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean consumed a diversity of plants
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Research finds dramatic increase in cranial traumas as the first cities were being built, suggesting a rise in violence
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Audio News for October 1st through the 7th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Thousands of still-hidden structures indicate vast Pre-Columbian societies in Amazon Rain Forest
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Prehistoric cosmic airburst forced transition from foraging to farming
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Researchers discover that a lush land route channeled early humans out of Africa
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Evidence of human cannib
Audio News for September 24th through the 30th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Chinese tomb inscription confirms Zhou Dynasty’s lethal power struggles
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Analysis of Texas mummy reveals painful death, and diet of grasshoppers
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New tablet from Hittite Empire capital records previously unknown early language
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Arrow found under melting glacier in Norway still has arro
Audio News for September 17th through the 23rd, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Black earth in the Amazon has captured carbon for centuries
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Sunken port city in Egypt reveals new treasures
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Early hominids built wood structures long before Homo sapiens
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Antler comb analysis shows Viking trade routes reached the Arctic
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Audio News for September 10th through the 16th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
2,700 year-old skeleton found in Turkey may confirm Ayanis earthquake
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Ancient footprints suggest humans wore shoes during the Middle Stone Age
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3th-century artifacts found on Darb al-Hajj route likely used in magic rituals
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1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy with full head of hair found in
Audio News for September 3rd through the 9th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Rare Chinese chime bells date to Spring and Autumn period
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Underwater Florida find may be early form of diving bell
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Four Roman swords found in Dead Sea cave
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Loss of Pleistocene big game could have been trigger for better hunting tools
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Audio News for August 27th through September 2nd, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Bee pollen debunks famous Neanderthal flower burial
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New genetic model suggests humans once risked extinction
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Wildfires set by post-Pleistocene humans in southern California permanently altered the ecosystem
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Skeletons unearthed at Civil War battlefield could give insight into soldier
Audio News for August 20th through the 26th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Proteins on ancient cauldrons give first look at Bronze Age menu
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Mount Zion discovery reveals evidence of two Jerusalem destructions
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Thunder worshipers did pre-Inca stomp on giant drum-like dance floor
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Audio News for August 13th through the 19th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
China's ancient water pipe networks show no evidence of centralized state authority
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Genome study reveals that Iceman Ötzi had dark skin and male pattern baldness
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Medieval girl buried face down, ankles possibly tied, to prevent return from the grave
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Sea sequin bling links Indonesian
Audio News for August 6th through the 12th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Bronze Age pyramid in Kazakhstan provides insight into Eurasian steppe civilizations
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DNA indicates earlier arrival of African cattle in the Americas
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Europe’s oldest stilt village discovered in Lake Orhid, Albania
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300,000-year-old teen jawbone points to unknown human lineage
Audio News for July 30th through August 5th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Medieval features found under Exeter Cathedral in England
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Mexico City dig uncovers village from the Teotihuacan period
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Old Dutch fort in Ghana may hide traces of the first English slave fort in Africa
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Bronze Age arrowhead from Swiss site made from meteorite that fell in Estonia
Audio News for July 23rd through the 29th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
300,000-year-old throwing stick reveals early human ingenuity
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Analysis of an Iron Age burial in Britain shows the warrior was a woman
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Indigenous cultural perspectives may help save Louisiana’s coastline
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Audio News for July 16th through the 22nd, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Benjamin Franklin's innovative anti-counterfeiting tactics for early paper money
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Vast labyrinth of ancient passages to the underworld revealed by cutting-edge imaging
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Abandoned monastery ruins reveal gold coins hidden during attack
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Neolithic polishing stone is second ever discovered
Audio News for July 9th through the 15th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Remarkable mosaic discoveries and synagogue reconstruction: unveiling ancient Jewish artifacts in Huqoq, Galilee
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Uncovering ancient secrets: new evidence pushes back human arrival in South America
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Unveiling a Viking aristocracy: remarkable discoveries in a southern Norwegian grave
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Audio News for July 2nd through the 8th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Huge Ice Age hand-axes found in England
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Innovative study finds early evidence of prehistoric plant technology
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Surprisingly large, aligned, Mesolithic pits turn up in England
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Dating of prehistoric teeth suggests Oregon site is among the
Audio News for June 25th through July 1st, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Pizza precursor seen in Pompeiian painting
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Intensification of agriculture linked to early deaths in pre-colonial North America
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Girl in early Anglo-Saxon Christian burial came from central Europe
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Kenyan fossil suggests cannibalism among hominin ancestors
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Audio News for June 18th through the 24th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Andean research shows drought cycles led to violence
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Muscular modeling of “Lucy” fossil shows she could walk upright with ease
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Models of European Neolithic show cycles of warfare causing population collapse
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Bronze Age sword found in Bavaria
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Audio News for June 11th through the 17th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists use crime forensics to prove Paleo-Americans hunted megafauna
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Laotian cave suggests migrations toward Australia 10,000 years earlier than thought
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Small brain size didn't prevent early hominins from complex ideas like burying the dead
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New Bronze Age burial mounds disco
Audio News for June 4th through the 10th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Remnants of settlement belonging to little-known Dalma culture discovered in Iran
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12,000-year-old bird-bone flutes in Israel may have been used for hunting
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Vessels that once contained ritual offerings discovered in ancient Maya city of Uxmal
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New study finds deadly strain of malaria
Audio News for May 28th through June 3rd, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Excavation reveals 3,000-year-old wheat flour in ancient Armenian bakery
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New study finds biblical Judean elites had even more gastrointestinal assailants than previously known
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Australian rock art depicting distinctive boats reveals previously unknown link with Indonesian culture
Audio News for May 21st through the 27th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Petroglyphs from Jordan and Saudi Arabia are world’s oldest scale blueprints
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Pennsylvania dig explores first battle site in French and Indian War
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Middle Pleistocene site in Spain reveals evidence for controlled cooking fires
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Roman temple site in Brittany shows worship of both Celtic
Audio News for May 14th through the 20th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Megalith tomb in Spain uses rippled rock to reflect summer solstice light
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Scoreboard for Maya ballgame found with late ninth-century hieroglyphics
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Germany's oldest human footprints found in lakeshore silt
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First large-scale survey of early Roman sites in Scotland shows intensive conq
Audio News for May 7th through the 13th, 2023. News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Mitochondrial DNA analysis suggests early Asian migrations to the Americas and Japan
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400-year-old-skeleton unearthed in Maryland believed to be discarded remains of teenaged indentured servant
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Decline of the Indus Civilization megacities likely due to long periods of drought
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Audio News for April 30th through May 6th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Recently unearthed Romano-Egyptian Buddha was the product of an interlinked ancient world
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Underwater survey finds old military cemetery and hospital near Florida islands
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Artificial intelligence model learns to translate ancient Akkadia
Audio News for April 23rd through the 29th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Wooden ritual mask from Osaka comes from the early agricultural period
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Ancient cemetery below Paris holds burials from early Roman Gaul
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New burial analysis shows Puerto Rico’s first inhabitants were more complex than previously thought
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Spanish bone tool shows how Ice Age occupants m
Audio News April 16th through the 22nd, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Hoard of Roman coins from period of turbulent civil wars unearthed in Tuscany
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DNA analysis reveals genetic diversity and dynastic politics of massive ancient central Asian empire
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Medieval Norse settlers of Greenland confirmed to have imported timber from North America
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Mystery of Bla
Audio News April 9th through the 15th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Hair strands reveal Bronze Age psychedelic drug use
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Ornate Christian frescoes emerge at site of medieval African capital
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Ancient humans ambushed giant wild cows in the Levant
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Climate changes may have driven Maya decline
Audio News April 2nd through the 8th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
More finds at major site in Miami, Florida, pit preservation against development
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Roman jewelry in Judea burial includes protective symbol of moon goddess
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Severed hands in Egyptian palace pits may have been war trophies
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South African cave produces evidence that early occupants ate gi
Audio News for March 26th through April 1st, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Analysis of Swahili genetics shows cosmopolitan history, supports oral tradition
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Archaeologists in Israel unearth 6000-year-old fishhook probably used to catch sharks
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Horses were
Audio News for March 19th through the 25th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
7,000-year-old cemetery reveals oldest evidence of cattle bloodletting
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Archaeologists discover rare Zodiac reliefs in Egyptian Temple of Esna
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Genomic analyses of hair from Ludwig van Beethoven reveals clues about his death
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Audio News for March 12th through the 18th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Discovery suggests Iberians crafted steel tools a millennium before the Romans
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Excavations reveal Cypriot village as site of significant Mediterranean Bronze Age trading hub
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New analysis of the Colchester Vase provides insight into gladiatorial games in Roman Britain
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Laser and chemi
Audio News for March 5th through the 11th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Early ice skates from western China may show Bronze Age ties with Europe
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Kurgan remains suggest they were riding horses by 3,000 BC, much earlier than thought
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Lake sediment study shows how Preclassic Maya city polluted the nearby lake
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Runic inscription on Danish find is oldest known
Audio News for February 26th through March 4th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Chinese city had planned layout, extensive defenses
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Mesoamerican study shows good governance was key to longer-lasting cities
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DNA study suggests early Europeans waited out the Ice Age in Iberia
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Genetic analysis discovers TB resistance in pre-contact Americans
Audio News for February 19th through the 25th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists unearth live Civil War artillery round at Gettysburg battlefield
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Ancient musical instrument in southern Vietnam
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Residue of medicinal herb mixtures in a 500-year-old cattle-horn container from South Africa
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Evidence of Bronze Age cranial surgery in northern Is
Audio News for February 12th through the 18th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
2.9 million-year-old African site raises questions over who really made some of the earliest stone tools
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Ancient burial mounds in Mexico among region's most important finds in decades
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Sprawling early Medieval stronghold discovered beneath Spanish forest
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Audio News for February 5th through the 11th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Turkish tree ring record suggests drought caused collapse of the Hittite Empire
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New study identifies two narrow windows when coastal Beringia was passable
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Bone spear fragments found in Washington may be oldest weapon in the Americas
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Audio News for January 29th through February 4th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Rosetta Stone for ancient Amorite: Iraqi tablets unlock lost language that is ancestral to modern Hebrew
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Large pits in Great Zimbabwe may have been water conservation system
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Neanderthal groups were big enough to hunt, kill and eat entire elephants
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Audio News for January 22nd through the 28th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study provides insight into the advent of currency in the ancient Levant
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Early Mesolithic human remains found in British cave system
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Huge moat that once protected Jerusalem unearthed
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Tombs of wealthy elite in southwest Mexico indicate region was once
Audio News for January 15th through the 21st, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Bronze Age well in Bavaria holds 3,000-year-old offerings
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Couple finds one plantation-era grave, then 143 more
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Romanian roadwork unearths tomb with artifacts from time of the Huns
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Studies of European skeletons suggest Neolithic farming life was more brutal than bucolic
Audio News for January 8th through the 14th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Remains found in colonial Charleston cemetery reveal the origins of enslaved Africans
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Survey of European “bog bodies” points to long history, violent deaths
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New reconstruction of ancient decorated skull unveiled
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Analysis of Medieval skull recreates brutal murder
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Audio News for January 1st through the 7th, 2023 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Viking age meeting hall discovered in northern Jutland
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DNA study reveals Jamestown colonists lived with, and sometimes ate, ancient indigenous dogs
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New kurgan tomb in south Siberia may be from previously unknown Scythian-like group
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Pleistocene-era discoveries in Brazil probably crea
Audio News for December 25th through the 31st, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New projectile points from Idaho date 3,000 years before Clovis points
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Humans have used bear skins for blankets for at least 300,000 years
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Sacred Aboriginal cave art destroyed in Australia
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Wreck of the Erebus yields artifacts documenting the lost Arctic exploration ship
Audio News for December 18th through the 24th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
LiDAR survey work reveals interconnected and complex Maya “kingdom”
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Greek study indicates modern humans were not the first sailors
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Cultural transmission responsible for the spread of prehistoric pottery
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2,000-year-old Jewish burial cave turned Christian pilgrimage
Audio News for December 11th through the 17th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study suggests that droughts urged Hunnic peoples to raid the Roman Empire
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New research indicates the ancient Mexica utilized mountain basin as solar observatory
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Extremely rare Jewish coin from the First Jewish-Roman War unearthed in Jerusalem
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Researchers locate 168 previously
Audio News for December 4th through the 10th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Narrative scenes of men facing animals found in Turkey may be the oldest known in the world
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Colosseum’s sewers contain ancient arena snacks
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Early medieval burial site reveals rare evidence of a powerful female Christian religious leader from 7th century Britain
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Oldest evidence of Ma
Audio News for November 27th through December 3rd, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
DNA studies show how history shaped genetics of European Jewish populations
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New stucco masks displayed from Classic Maya city of Toniná
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New analysis shows human ancestors cooked with multiple ingredients and flavors
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Winter solstice alignment found in Middle Kingdom tomb in
Audio News for November 20th through the 26th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Skeletal remains of a spider monkey provide new evidence about the ties between two ancient Mesoamerican societies
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Archaeologists use low tides in the English Channel to search for evidence of Neanderthal hunting grounds
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New analysis of the mummified body of Ötzi the Iceman questions the prevailing story of his death i
Audio News for November 13th through the 19th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Hundreds of New Kingdom mummies and pyramid of a formerly unknown queen found in ancient necropolis
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Ancient carp teeth contain the oldest signs of human cooking
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Remains from Revolutionary War battlefield to be studied and reburied
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Dating of New Mexico footprints contested i
Audio News for November 6th through the 12th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Tuscan finds challenge previous ideas about the Roman-Etruscan relationship
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Researchers seeking Cleopatra’s tomb find tunnel under ancient temple
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Parrot bone from eastern New Mexico raises questions about prehistoric Southwestern bird trade
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Ivory comb discovered in Israel bears earl
Audio News for October 30th through November 5th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New DNA analysis traces path to earliest people in South America
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Scottish gravestone features rare medieval inscription
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Archaeologists uncover commercial district of Byzantine-era city Ephesus
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Scientists discover ancient peoples found watermelon seeds to be tastier than the
Audio News October 23rd through the 29th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Newly-uncovered Romano-British villa features partially intact heating system
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Archaeologists uncover Assyrian carvings spared from destruction by ISIS in Mosul
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Extreme drought lowers Mississippi River level and reveals spooky finds
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Oldest DNA in Great Britain shows two dist
Audio News October 16th through the 22nd, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
1,600 year old Roman mosaic depicting the Roman god Neptune, the Labors of Hercules, and the Trojan War discovered in Syria
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Research suggests that Late Viking Age groups intentionally replicated ancient Roman era grave designs and traditions
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New study provides a rare glimpse into the close knit family structure of a Neanderthal
Audio News for October 9th through 15th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Peruvian workers laying pipeline inadvertently uncover centuries old Peruvian tombs
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Remains in Taiwan cave support local lore of vanished ancient mountain-dwelling peoples
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DNA found in Armenian cave allows researchers to learn more about human plant use during the Paleolithic.
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Audio News for October 2nd through the 8th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Dig in Philippi, Greece, uncovers giant statue of Hercules
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Biblical-era copper smelting in the Negev led to desertification
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Viking Age beads reveal careful use of recycled glass from Roman mosaics
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Dig on Alabama coast reveals 1400-year-old canal
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Audio News for September 25th through October 1st, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Crimson color paint in Maya cities exposed them to toxic mercury
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Ancient plant DNA shows how people in ancient British Isles built and used artificial islands
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New sarcophagus from Saqqara held high-ranking statesman who served Ramses II
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Baltic warship wreck reveals impressive artill
Audio News for September 18th through the 24th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Gold funeral mask may indicate unknown trade connections in ancient China
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New genetic study provides community level insight into Anglo-Saxon migration
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3,000 year old canoe discovered beneath waters of Lake Mendota in Wisconsin
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Ancient structure found near Prague may provide clues t
Sep 26, 2022 • 5295:38:37 Audio News for September 11th through 17th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Dung samples found in Syria suggest earlier timeline for animal tending
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Examination of 14th century map offers evidence of the actual existence of islands from Welsh legend
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“Exceptional” Byzantine mosaic uncovered by farmer in Gaza
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Viking Textiles Show Viking Women Had Tremendous Po
Audio News for September 4th through 10th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Pleistocene cave burial in Borneo reveals world's earliest successful amputation
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Rising sea levels threaten Turtle Mound on Florida coast
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Bodies from English well are from medieval massacre of Jews
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Norwegian island cave has been a gathering spot for 10,000 years
Audio News for August 28th through September 3rd, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Lost branch of the Nile may solve the puzzle of how stones were brought to the Pyramids
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Archaeologists ask UNESCO to protect the Hagia Sophia after years of damage
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New dig in Zanzibar’s Stone Town finds evidence of early Swahili occupation
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Tree-ring studies may show an Argentinian
Audio News for August 21st through the 27th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Rare 1000-year-old canoe burial found in Patagonia
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Mounds on the Louisiana State University campus are oldest built structures in North America
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Femur study might reveal the first known hominin
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Groundbreaking genetic study provides numerous insights into the history of the Southern A
Audio News for August 14th through the 20th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
A new chromosomal study recalibrates the timeline for human arrival in South America
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Largest collection of rock crystals in Britain discovered at Neolithic burial site
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Reburial efforts for the skeletal remains of Black Philadelphians, long held at Penn Museum, may soon come to a resolution
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Audio News for August 7th through the 13th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Maya cremation remains used to create balls for ritual games
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Researchers discover world’s oldest example of octopus lures on Mariana Islands
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Butchered remains of mammoths point to possibility of oldest humans in North America
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Archaeologists may have cracked the code of ancient Elam
Audio News Special Edition for August 7, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
January 30, 2022: Thousands of buried sites in UK threatened as climate change dries the soil
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May 22, 2022: Climate change threatens century-old Endurance shipwreck
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June 5, 2022: Low reservoir levels offer new chance to study Bronze Age city in Iraq
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Audio News for July 24th through the 30th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Taiwan dig finds oldest shell processing site in the Pacific
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New research shows fish were common food for Ancestral Puebloans
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Palace in eastern Turkey could have housed Genghis Khan’s grandson
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Horse tooth DNA may link to famed herd on Chincoteague
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Audio News for July 17th through the 23rd, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
19th-century cobalt mine discovered in perfect condition by cavers in England
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Researchers point to climate change and sociopolitical conflict as contributing factors to the fall of powerful Maya city
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New study underscores the role of “sea gardens” in sustaining indigenous communities for thousands of years
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Audio News from Archaeologica, July 10th through the 16th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Wood found on Oregon coast likely comes from missing Spanish galleon
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Late Pleistocene remains from southern China reveal possible relative of Native Americans
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Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery near London reveals life after the end of Roman rule
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Audio News for July 3rd through the 9th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Aztec children’s bones show hardship, resilience during early Spanish rule
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Mosaic floor in Galilee is oldest depiction of Bible heroines
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Researchers surprised to find Stone-Age jewelry crafted from human bones
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Ornate wooden sculpture found in Peru
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Audio News for June 26th through July 2nd, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New analysis pushes age of ancient hominin remains from caves in South Africa back more than a million years.
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New study provides insight into how ancient Maya attempted to ritualistically battle gods of the underworld in sacred cave.
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Historic tomahawk belonging to Chief Standing Bear repatriated to Ponca Tribe
Audio News for June 19th through the 25th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Research on prehistoric tools gives new insight into early inhabitants of Britain
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Archaeologists hope new discoveries in Iranian hill village will secure UNESCO recognition.
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Archaeologists and firefighters adapt to protect ancient sites from fire
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1,200 year old mosque in Israel cons
Audio News for June 12th through the 18th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Drought on the Arabian peninsula possibly contributed to the rise of Islam
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New research supports evidence that communities in the Americas independently developed democratic systems
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Israeli archaeologists find earliest evidence of fruit tree cultivation
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Analysis of 14th-century rema
Audio News for June 5th through the 11th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New research into chickens shows origin in Thailand, slow spread from there
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Oslo excavations find hundreds of unique medieval artifacts
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Shipwreck found off England’s east coast nearly killed the future James the Second
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Maya pits yield earliest evidence of classic corn-processing te
Audio News for May 29th through June 4th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Low reservoir levels offer new chance to study Bronze Age city in Iraq
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Israeli dig finds first Roman military amphitheater in southern Levant
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Spanish cave reveals long record of paintings from Neanderthals and later humans
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Harvard collections include remains of Native Ameri
Audio News for May 22nd through the 28th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Abandoned Hellenistic farmstead unearthed in Israel
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Maya gemstone tooth fillings may have had hygienic benefits
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Study of ancient proteins confirms early Australians ate the eggs of huge flightless birds
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Complex city ruins in the Amazon found using digital air-mapping techno
Audio News for May 15th through the 21st, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Climate change threatens century-old Endurance shipwreck
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Components of ancient Chinese incense demonstrate the breadth of ancient trade networks
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Molar discovered in Laos determined to be Denisovan
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Ancient amphorae discovered by Ukrainian soldiers
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Audio News for May 8th through the 14th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Uruguay DNA study offers new insights into Indigenous origins and continuity
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Bird bone study shows medieval Estonians ate chicken, liked cockfights and used hawks for hunting
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Sardinian Bronze Age burial site reveals two more giant statues
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Turkish looters expose underground worship s
Audio News for May 1st through the 7th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Lone woman buried with elite men raises questions about gender roles in Neolithic Europe
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3D modeling technique reveals full extent of large Indigenous cave painting in Alabama
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Stonehenge area offered ample resource base long before monument was built
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Indigenous Americans and Austral
Audio News from Archaeologica, April 24th through the 30th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New analysis on materials excavated 70 years ago reveals details about medieval Norwegian town
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Neanderthals in Lower Saxony region exhibited adaptability to a changing climate
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New research of Anglo-Saxon diets suggests that royals and peasants ate similarly and even intermixed at special meals
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Audio News for April 17th through the 23rd, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study identifies at least 20 royal burial sites from King Arthur era
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Game dice found in Indian town believed to be 1,000 years old
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Statistical analysis of site mixing challenges claims for pre-Clovis peopling of the Americas
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Chinese text may be oldest description of aurora borea
Audio News for April 10th through the 16th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ancient tsunami left Chilean coast sparsely inhabited for centuries
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Massive stone jars found in India may have been used to store the dead
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Guatemalan mural shows earliest example of Maya calendar
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Researchers propose new starting date for famous ancient Greek computer
Audio News from Archaeologica, April 3rd through April 9th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ancient jars reveal that Judean elite enjoyed vanilla flavored wine 2,600 years ago
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New study finds the Avars likely made a record-breaking migration from Mongolia
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Genetic research links increases in height, intelligence and proneness to heart disease to Neolithic societal shifts
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Audio News for March 27th through April 2nd, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Sardinian lead found at the site of an ancient Cypriot shipwreck points to sophisticated regional trade networks
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New study of Châtelperronian tools give greater insights into the rise and fall of early Neandertal communities
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Analysis of skeletal remains in Scotland find that some early people traveled great distances in the reg
Audio News for March 20th through the 26th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists reportedly find oldest Hebrew text on ancient curse tablet
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Norse settlers in Greenland contended with water shortages
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Study finds ice-free land route was not available to early human arrivals to the Americas
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New study documents burial practices in Neolithic Turkey, in
Audio News for March 13th through the 19th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists discover remains of institute intended to attract great Chinese intellectuals during the Warring States period
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New study shows Native American burning practices helped manage the forests of the Klamath Mountains
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Evidence of silver extraction and abandoned mausoleum in the English countryside puzzle archaeologists
Audio News for March 6th through the 12th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Israeli study finds that prehistoric people may have reused discarded tools in memory of ancestors
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New evidence points to the importance of linen and oil in ancient Levant societies
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Symbol stone found in farmer’s field believed to date back to the time of the emergence of early Scotland
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Audio News for February 27th through March 5th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
First Nations residential school in Alberta reveals 169 potential gravesites
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New research suggests how Stonehenge tracked the solar year
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Peruvian burials suggest sacrifice of children as part of death rituals
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Geologic study traces origins of the Willendorf Venus stone carving
Audio News for February 20th through the 26th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study further confirms stellar origin for Tutankhamun’s mysterious dagger
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Marks on 5000-year-old Spanish skull show world’s oldest ear operation
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Large mosaics in London came from upscale Roman roadhouse
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Earliest-known trousers show cultural exchange in ancient Asia
Audio News for February 13th through the 19th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Newly unearthed Buddhist temple may be Pakistan’s oldest
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First application of new forensic method to ancient remains reveals man’s death by drowning
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Excavators recover medieval Papal seal on Swedish island
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New evidence of conquistadors found in the American Southwest
Audio News for February 6th through the 12th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Excavations at the tomb of China’s first emperor reveal 20 more terracotta warriors.
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New study pushes back the arrival of modern humans in Europe.
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Large cache of pottery notepads sheds light on daily life in ancient Egypt.
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Study suggest indigenous Peruvian leaders used hallucinogens
Audio News for January 30th through February 5th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Pottery from an island near northeastern Australia shows widespread trade three thousand years earlier than thought
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Meteorite remnants at Hopewell sites show massive comet burst immediately above North America
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Peruvian tombs with rearranged bones may be response to desecration by c
Audio News for January 23rd through the 29th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Israeli site shows people ate well during the last Ice Age
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New study casts doubt on claims that meat eating led to evolution of bigger brains
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Geophysical research at Poverty Point reveals new complexity
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Thousands of buried sites in UK
Audio News for January 16th through the 22nd, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
3,000 year old tombs of wealthy ancient Chinese clan contain remains of ritually sacrificed warriors
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Funerary highways show early social and economic connections between ancient Arabian oases settlements
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Pottery fragments from prehistoric Nok culture shed light on history of West African cuisine
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Audio News for January 9th through the 15th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Study of volcanic ash provides new date for one of world’s earliest Homo sapiens skulls
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Rare leather scale armor found in ancient Chinese tomb
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Study indicates that Medieval warhorses were unexpectedly small in stature
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Study of rare African script offers insight to early evolution of
Audio News for January 2nd through the 8th, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Carving of royal falconer found in Oslo excavations
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New dating shows so-called “Viking” horned helmets are actually from the Bronze Age
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Palace toilet from Iron Age Jerusalem shows even elites had worms
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List of Maya food plants suggests resilience to drought was higher than believed
Audio News for December 26th, 2021. through January 1st, 2022 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ancient human DNA extracted from lice glue exhibits prehistoric migration patterns of Argentina’s early Ansilta culture
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Jin Dynasty tomb from northern China holds murals depicting good luck symbols
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3D CT scan allows for virtual unwrapping of the mummy of Amenhotep the First
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New find
Audio News for December 19th through the 25th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
200,000-year-old remains of mammoths unearthed in UK alongside Ice Age-era stone tools
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Tribal insight provides invaluable cultural context after archaeologists discover 12,300-year-old tobacco seeds in Utah desert
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Cluster of newly discovered Norse longhouses revealed near Viking ship burial in Norway
Audio News for December 12th through the 18th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study disputes prevalence of infanticide among ancient Spartans and Greeks
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Archaeologists discover the remains of the Americas’ oldest domesticated dog in British Columbia
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Early Mesolithic remains of baby girl found buried with shell jewelry in Italian cave
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Audio News for December 5th through the 11th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Cahokia Mounds gets new augmented reality app amid push for National Park status
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New work dates massive megalith site in Ethiopia to first century AD
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Remains of crucified man found in Roman cemetery in England
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Genes from now-extinct Denisovans help modern Tibetans survive at high al
Audio News for November 28th through December 4th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Large Roman mosaic found on English farm
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Cyprus tomb artifacts point to elite family with expansive trade connections
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New study of Tanzania footprints suggests hominins made them, not bears
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New research shows quinoa was critical food for people around Lake Titicaca
Audio News for November 21st through the 27th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Researchers take a fresh look at Maya salt factory in Belize
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Petroglyphs discovered at Canada’s Wanuskewin Heritage Park
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Discovery of ruined fortress unveiled as a Hannukah gift in Israel
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New study focuses on cultural and economic disruptions from the Justinianic Plague
Audio News for November 14th through the 20th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study demonstrates humans accelerated the extinction of wooly mammoths
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LiDAR reveals the sophisticated agriculture of three Classic period Maya kingdoms
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Evidence of ancient mercury poisoning discovered from analysis of Iberian bones
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Study finds volcanic eruptions contributed to
Audio News for November 7th through the 13th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Canada’s oldest English coin discovered in Newfoundland
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New research suggests deep connections among Transeurasian languages and peoples
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New room discovered at Pompeii may have been the housing for slave family
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Ornate wooden bird once belonged to English queen Anne Boleyn
Audio News for October 31st through November 6th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
First discovered skull of Homo naledi child reconstructed
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Elaborate villas still visible at submerged Roman resort town
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First complete Maya canoe found in Yucatan
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Boston construction plans may disturb island where hundreds of Native Americans died
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Audio News for October 24th through the 30th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
DNA analysis used to determine ancestry of mummified remains found in Xinjiang
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Artifacts from lost empire of Srivijaya being plundered in Sumatra
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Impacts of deforestation by resident population revealed at Chaco Canyon
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Study seeks to clarify scientific naming standards for early hum
Audio News for October 17th through the 23rd, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Study of horse DNA provides new evidence about the spread of the Indo-European languages
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Ancient Caucasians may have shunned gold for cultural reasons
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Cosmic radiation allows researchers to date Viking artifacts in Newfoundland
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Evidence from Madagascar shows that foragers make lasti
Audio News for October 10th through the 16th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Analysis of teeth shows early Native Americans did not come from Japan
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Medieval document suggests Italians heard about America 150 years before Columbus
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Lake sediments challenge history of human habitation in the Azores
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Earliest hominin footprints from Crete now dated to 6 million
Audio News for October 3rd through the 9th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
3D technology reveals new example of Easter Island’s lost script
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Genetics of Siberian dogs show widespread trade by early Arctic peoples
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Spirit mirror of Queen Elizabeth’s astrologer was Aztec artifact
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Remains of first Black church in Colonial Williamsburg are uncovered -- again
Audio News for September 26th through October 2nd, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Historians document human impacts to the environment on islands of Micronesia
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New discoveries at Tikal demonstrate complex societal interactions
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Genetic testing suggests Etruscans were locals from eastern Europe
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Yale’s Vinland Map found to be a forgery
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Audio News for September 19th through the 25th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Impacts from meteor may be source of biblical tale of destruction of Sodom
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Analysis of fossilized footprints suggests humans came to North America long before end of Ice Age
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New research traces Maya societal recovery from habitat destruction following volcanic blast
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Scholars express
Audio News Sep. 12th through the 18th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Bronze Age coffin unearthed on UK golf course yields new secrets during conservation
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Handprints and footprints preserved in Tibetan mud may be oldest known art
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Bone tools from Moroccan cave show how Pleistocene people made clothing
Audio News September 5th through 11th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Acropolis renovations draw criticism for covering centuries of history
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Further evidence of human sacrifice in construction of Korea’s Moon Castle
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Unique artifacts uncovered in China highlight the creativity of ancient peoples
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New research explores interactions of ancient Pueblo with
Audio News for August 29th through September 4th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Analysis of bone tools from Italy resets timeline of Neanderthal development
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First DNA evidence of ancient Toalean people recovered in Indonesia
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Louisiana earthworks created by rare group efforts from hunter-gatherers
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Artifacts reveal the softer side of Viking culture
Audio News for August 22nd through the 28th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Michigan farm field produces first Clovis site in the state
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Remains of early farmers in arid desert of Chile show a history of violence
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Mexican pictographs are first record of pre-Conquest earthquakes
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Herculaneum bone studies shows men and women ate different diets
Audio News Special Edition for August 22, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
January 3, 2021: Analysis of tree rings provides fresh evidence of climatic fluctuation
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May 2, 2021: Disruptions in Ancestral Puebloan societies attributed to the intersection of climate challenges with social tensions
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May 16, 2021: As climate change accelerates rock damage, world’s oldest cave art is disappearing
Audio News for August 8th through the 14th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New site in southern India adds insight on development of first urban cultures
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Roman artifact from Leicester suggests lions were brought to Britain
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Melting ice in Mongolia reveals new artifacts, and threats to conservation
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Peruvian villagers rally to repair rope bridges dating back
Audio News for August 1st through the 8th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Inscribed stone tablets show ancient Babylonians understood geometry
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Pristine artifacts from 4th century BC found off coast of Egypt
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Maya potters developed sophisticated techniques for creating glazes
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Study confirms pigments Neanderthals used to decorate Spanish cave
Audio News for July 25th through the 31st, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New finds in sunken Egyptian port of Heracleion
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Japanese lake sediments show that origins of agriculture depended on a stable climate
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Indigenous roots and modern technology combine in search for missing residential school children
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Fats, proteins, microbes: new techniques help identi
Audio News July 18th through the 24th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Researchers discover ancient cuneiform inscription and image of Babylon’s last king
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Clues from the final meal of a 2,400-year-old bog body found in Denmark
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Remnants of an ancient Roman road found submerged in Venice lagoon
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Interdisciplinary team focuses on the archaeological history
Audio News for July 11th through the 17th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Lakota shirt returned after a century in German museums
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Tomb of Hellenistic poet-astronomer uncovered in southern Turkey
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New Easter Island research finds population increase, not collapse
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Ancient Greek feasting grounds found on island of Cyprus
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Audio News for July 4th through the 10th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Burials from Gabonese cave show unique pattern of tooth removal
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Paleolithic carved bone from Germany shows Neanderthal use of symbols
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Mississippi dig shows how victorious Chickasaws put Spanish loot to use
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New expedition seeks Shackleton’s sunken Antarctic expedition ship
udio News for June 27th through July 3rd, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Dendrochronology puts a date on a Bronze Age wooden pool in Italy
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Human waste traces show how Maya population varied due to climate swings
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Harvard University returns historic pipe tomahawk to Nebraska tribe
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Neolithic snake staff found in Finnish wetland site
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Audio News for June 20th through the 26th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Researchers identify remains of oldest known victim of shark attack
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DNA evidence reveals ancient Maya peoples tended to wild plant oases within city walls
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Pre-Neolithic grains may have fueled the elaborate constructions at Göbekli Tepe
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Audio News for June 13th through the 19th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
German henge found to be both a residential space and ritual space for human sacrifices
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Researchers use Google Earth to identify large geoglyph in India
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Florida island shows evidence of a long-lost native settlement
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Sudanese pyramids face degradation as sand invades
Audio News for June 6th through the 12th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Rare early coins found in Polish field
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New evidence shows prehistoric Amazonians protected the rainforest
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Native American tribe buys back ancestral home in Maine
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COVID-19 gives cover to increased looting of Italy’s antiquities
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Audio News for May 30th through June 5th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Scotland’s Galloway Hoard unveils new mysteries of the Viking Age
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National Guard mobilized to protect Teotihuacan from illegal building
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Piecing together countless fragments of the past, then and now
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Roman graves in England held decapitated victims of harsh legal code
Audio News for May 23rd through the 29th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
History of Black Pharaohs unearthed in northern Sudan
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Evidence of tools used for creating ancient tattoos found in Tennessee
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Ongoing excavations around Tulsa search for victims of Greenwood riots
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Ancient food scraps add evidence to the evolution of Kosher dietary practices
Audio News for May 23rd through the 29th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
History of Black Pharaohs unearthed in northern Sudan
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Evidence of tools used for creating ancient tattoos found in Tennessee
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Ongoing excavations around Tulsa search for victims of Greenwood riots
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Ancient food scraps add evidence to the evolution of Kosher dietary practices
Audio News for May 16th through the 22nd, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New machine learning method increases the efficiency and accuracy of sorting ancient pot sherds
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Fossil data demonstrate the devastating impact of European colonization on Guadeloupe’s reptile population
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Roman soldier under Vesuvius ash was possibly a rescuer
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Genetic material left be
Audio News for May 9th through the 15th, 2021 News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Geology explains the Roman Hell Gate, where animals died in a toxic mist
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As climate change accelerates rock damage, world’s oldest cave art is disappearing
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New study of fossil mouth microbacteria shows evolution of human diet
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Argument over Utah’s Bears Ears area hinges on the meanin
Audio News for May 2nd through the 8th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: British shilling from 1600s found at colonial fort in Maryland (details) Human activity during Holocene linked to extinction of multiple species (details) New book on Holbein finds clue to portrait of a wife of Henry the Eighth (details) Child’s grave in Kenya thought to be oldest burial in Africa (de
Audio News for April 25th through the May 1st, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: LIDAR surveys provides new details about Maya civilizations in the northern Yucatán (details) X-ray testing reveals Egyptian mummy was a pregnant woman (details) Disruptions in Ancestral Puebloan societies attributed to the intersection of climate challenges with social tensions (details) First settlers in Iceland bui
Audio News for April 18th through the 24th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Turkish archaeologists discover Roman-era gladiator arena (details) Traces of cabin belonging to Harriet Tubman’s father uncovered at Maryland site (details) New study shows how humans have sustainably shaped Earth’s ecology for millennia (details) Famous “Little Foot” fossil gives greater insight into the divergence
Audio News for April 11th through the 17th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Biochemical studies of potsherds reveal oldest evidence of honey use in west Africa (details) Sites in Senegal show the long duration of Middle Stone Age culture in West Africa (details) Pacific Coast peoples diets consisted of more than salmon (details) Scholars contradict recent claims of pre-Columbian cannibalism i
Audio News for April 4th through the 10th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Hieroglyphic texts reveal the sophistication of Aztec written language (details) Multiple lines of evidence suggest early hominids were hypercarnivores (details) Cave artists may have risked hypoxia while creating their art deep underground (details) Study finds no evidence to support claims of deforestation at Cahoki
Audio News for March 28th through April 3rd, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Yemeni coins found in New England were pirated during the 1600s (details) Impacts of climate change thought to have impacted spiritual beliefs (details) Colorful marble décor intended for Constantine I found in Bulgaria (details) Research shows birds were transported across the Andes for hundreds of years
Audio News for March 21st through the 27th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Study reveals hidden wealth gaps in Maya society (details) Database of ancient Texas murals brings fresh research opportunities (details) Research suggests that Native Americans tried to help the infamous Donner Party (details) A reckoning with African-American remains in US museums (details)
Audio News for March 14th through the 20th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Earliest Revolutionary War battlefield in South Carolina is found (details) New biblical scroll fragments found in West Bank cave (details) Computer recreation of Antikythera Mechanism shows how it tracked the heavens (details) Bronze Age burial from Spain yields evidence that women held great power (
Audio News for March 7th through the 13th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient iron furnace in Cambodia shows danger for Earth’s magnetic field (details) New evidence shows early hominids developed better water efficiency than apes (details) New insights on why and when ancient women chose to be hunters (details) Ancient footprints in Spain give clues to humanity’s relationship with the
Audio News for February 28th through March 6th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient ceremonial carriage unearthed near Pompeii (details) Sediment cores could reshape what we know about the peopling of the Americas (details) Dental X-ray scanner used to read sealed Renaissance Period letters (details) Demise of neanderthals no longer thought to have been caused by human competition
Audio News for February 21st through the 27th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: 5,000-year-old burial mounds at Tomaka State Park give insight into Timucua people (details) 18th century Bray School for enslaved and free black children to be moved for conservation (details) Researchers hope to learn more about Himalayan lake holding over 300 skeletons (details) New analysis shows Celtic memorials
Audio News for February 14th through the 20th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Dating to First Dynasty, Egyptian beer factory is oldest ever found (details) Grindstone with moth remains documents an important Aboriginal food tradition (details) Global study of successful societies highlights role of taxes and bureaucracy (details) Stalagmite study shows Silk Road didn’t start until megadrought e
Audio News for February 7th through the 13th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Hellenistic era theater in Turkey produces scores of terracotta statuettes (details) Oldest known Chinese cosmetic cream found in noble tomb (details) Venetian beads found in Alaska point to possible pre-colonial trade (details) New analysis of an ancient conch shell finds it may be oldest discovered wind instrument
Audio News for January 31st through February 6th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: How environmental change may have created the Egypt nation-state (details) Early Medieval graveyard found beneath student housing in Cambridge (details) Archaeology is unlocking more details about Peru’s Cloud Warriors (details) New analysis offers insight into Bronze Age agricultural practices (detai
Audio News for January 24th through the 30th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Researchers discover 3000-year-old royal purple dye in Israel (details) Ancient milk proteins in Africa show long-term milk consumption (details) Dogs likely to have accompanied people to the Americas (details) Medieval Cambridge skeletons reveal injuries to manual laborers (details)
Audio News for January 17th through the 23rd, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: New finds in Egypt include temple, burials and part of the Book of the Dead (details) Bronze Age caches in Europe show standardized objects, perhaps used as money (details) Ohio’s Fort Ancient earthworks may become part of larger Hopewell monument (details) Ancient knowledge analyzed to provide insight on current glob
Audio News for January 10th through the 16th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Temple to Aphrodite identified in Turkey (details) Facial reconstruction reveals features of buried Siberian man and his companion (details) Rare female statue found in Mexican citrus grove (details) Dating confirms that Sulawesi warty pig is oldest animal cave art known (details)
Audio News for January 3rd through the 9th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: New South African fossils show ever more diversity in early hominid species (details) Indigenous-led archaeology corrects and expands on Victoria, Australia, prehistory (details) Death threats to famed archaeologist excavating Peru’s most ancient city (details) Treasure hunter who disturbed Yellowstone’s historic ceme
Audio News for December 27th, 2020, through January 2nd, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Ancient Peruvian farmers used cyclical climate patterns as an advantage
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Bozeman Trail proponents seek national historic designation status
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New excavations reveal details of daily life in Pompeii
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Analysis of tree rings provides fresh evidence of climatic fluctuations
Audio News for December 20th through the 26th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Compost islands in the Amazon
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Ancient washed-up weapons turn out to be made of human bone
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DNA trumps ceramics in correcting the history of early Caribbean
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Tooth plaque reveals that Levant commoners ate imported foods
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Audio News for December 13th through the 19th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Hoards of counterfeit silver show how rulers propped up currency in early Middle East
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Climate change, not Genghis Khan, caused the end of Central Asian kingdoms
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More skulls found from Aztec tower of skulls in Mexico City
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Scottish cross from Viking-era hoard shows craftsmanship fit
Audio News for December 6th through the 12th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Bronze Age grave in Croatia holds bones of warrior still wearing his bronze helmet
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Norwegian ice patch reveals evidence of reindeer hunting across 6000 years
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Prehistoric Southwestern mummies show entire communities offered help to the dying
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Pandemic stay-home in UK leads to garden
Audio News for November 29th through December 5th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Ancient necropolis in Tauste adds to evidence of an extended Islamic presence
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New research techniques reveal extensive water collection systems at Tikal
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Multi-national effort unravels illegal transfer and auction of looted Greek artifacts
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Vast collections of prehistoric rock art i
Audio News for November 22nd through the 28th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Chewed-upon hallucinogenic plant remains found in cave with rock art
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Ancestral Puebloans used thousands of turkey feathers to make blanket
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Ancient city in Saudi Arabia now restored and open to the public
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More mask reliefs depicting traditional motifs found in ancient Turkish theat
Audio News for November 15th through the 21st, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Late Roman watchtower found along lower Danube in Bulgaria
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In times of drought, early Puebloans turned to underground caves for water
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Edo period document details strict code of conduct for workers
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Race to excavate Viking longship is up against long odds
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Audio News for November 8th through the 14th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Remains of people and horses provide insight into Xiongnu civilization
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The true story behind the Great Fire of Rome
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New fossil discovery shows evolutionary changes in extinct human in small-scale
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The Svalbard shipwreck and where it disappeared to
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Audio News for November 1st through the 7th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Teeth from Bronze Age site in Spain show that women were fiber specialists
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Andes burial from 9,000 years ago reveals young, female big-game hunter
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Greenwich Palace exploration finds the spot where everything changed for Henry VIII
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Search for Tulsa Massacre remains finds coffins th
Audio News for October 25th through the 31st, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Ancient dog DNA is being used to help trace human history
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Research in the United States examines what it meant to be a Mississippian
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Evidence shows ancient people in Turkey successfully adapted to climate change
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Newly found signet with the image Apollo points to a pluralistic Jeru
Audio News for October 18th through the 24th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New Nazca Line discovery shows a cat sprawling across the hillside
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As glaciers in the Alps melt, archaeologists race to rescue fragile artifacts
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Archaeologists fear retrieval of Titanic radio may disturb human remains
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Scientists find new ways to conserve Arctic Circle artifacts
Audio News for October 11th through the 17th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New analysis shows Central Asian leather balls are 3,000 years old
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Climate change helped drive human cousins extinct
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Finds from Theopetra Cave show changes from Paleolithic to Neolithic in Greece
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How tourists shape the future of Confederate monuments
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Audio News for October 4th through the 10th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Remnants of ancient Viking temple found in Norway
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Clay figurine adorned with bone mask discovered in Siberia
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Intact human cells survived the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
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This is no place to call home
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Audio News for September 27th through October 3rd, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Ancient humans in the Amazon used managed forest practices
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Archaeologists determine how people first settled on Caribbean islands
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Humans have affected global ecosystems for longer than previously believed
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Renewed interest in New Mexico’s 1680 Pueblo Revolt in wake of 2020 protests
Audio News for September 20th through the 26th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Early edition of final Shakespeare play found in Scottish seminary in Spain
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Major exhibit on 400th anniversary of the Mayflower balances myth with truth
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Geochemistry of Egyptian bird mummies reveals they were hunted
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New dates for Hadrianopolis near Black Sea put city’s founding in
Audio News for September 13th through the 19th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Excavation seeks remains of colonial Williamsburg’s first Black church
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Maya slave ship wreck identified off Mexican coast
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Fingerprints show both sexes painted neolithic art
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DNA study of Viking burials shows they weren’t all Scandinavians
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Audio News for September 6th through the 12th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Fruit ripens from 2,000 year old seeds
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Drone footage reveals earthwork in American Midwest
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Evidence points to high literacy rates among 7th Century BC Judahites
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Why genetic advance pre-dates cultural advances in Homo sapiens
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Audio News for August 30th through September 5th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Ancient cult threw offerings into the sea for 400 years
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Cyclones may have contributed to Maya decline
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Population decline on Easter Island serves lesson for the planet
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Face down burial raises questions about past pandemics
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Audio News for August 23rd through the 29th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Illegal gold mining obliterates archaeological sites in Sudan
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Romans in a Red Sea trading port bought monkeys from India as pets
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Africa’s early music traditions are traced through scattered artifacts
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Port construction in northern Chile unearths well dressed, well preserved mummies
Audio News for August 16th through the 22nd, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Boxgrove site in Britain offers rare glimpse of ice age tool kit
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Island chain in eastern Indonesia reveals evidence of early human migration
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Work continues on historical Black cemeteries in America
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Ancient stone monuments in Saudi Arabia offer clues to early pastoral peoples
Audio News Special Edition for August 16, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
March 29, 2020: Signs of world's earliest epidemic found in China
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May 10, 2020: Archaeological evidence puts pandemic effects into historical perspective
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May 17:How ancient African societies coped with epidemics
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Epidemics revealed in human teeth
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Audio News for August 2nd through the 8th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Fluted tools were developed independently in North America and Arabia
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Divers find rare intact Inca offerings in South American lake
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Australian mining company apologizes for destroying Aboriginal heritage site
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Northern Ireland’s Navan Fort may be part of larger temple complex
Audio News for July 26th through August 1st, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Coprolites in Oregon caves reveal lengthy human occupation
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Source of Stonehenge monoliths found
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Grape pips help archaeologists study ancient economy
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Epidemics revealed in human teeth
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Audio News for July 19th through the 25th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Studies of pirate shipwreck suggests Blackbeard abandoned it intentionally
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Viking age burials produce smallpox DNA that adds new twist to history
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New studies from Mexican cave and other early sites put North American arrival at 30,000 years ago
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New site in Jerusalem is from ti
Audio News for July 12th through the 18th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Push for development in India paves over the past
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Excavation seeks mass graves of Tulsa race massacre victims
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New Bronze Age burial pushes back the date for earliest horse riding
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Underwater research off Australia finds new early sites
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Audio News for July 5th through the 11th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Dismantling a Confederate monument reveals time capsule
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Divers find ancient ocher mines on Yucatan peninsula
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Rock engravings found in Israeli burial chamber
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Archaeologists uncover the history of Ethiopian lake
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Audio News for June 28th through July 4th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Korea Legoland theme park plows through priceless prehistoric site
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Volcano in Alaska helped push Roman Republic to the tipping point
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Bad water in Maya city of Tikal came partly from dangerous paint
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Old spy photos and new satellite technology find 14,000 new sites in northeast
Audio News for June 21st through the 27th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New C14 dates show wooden church statue is Europe’s oldest
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Stone Age harpoons discovered in Norway
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Viking outpost in Iceland resets settlement date
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Volunteers excavate Hindu temple amid pandemic
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Audio News for June 14th through the 20th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Research continues on Maya ruins at Uxmal
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Sri Lanka reveals 48,000 year old arrowheads
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Underwater bones raise questions about doomed French expedition
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New analysis of remains from Newgrange indicates incest
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Audio News for June 7th through the 13th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Oldest shell midden in China discovered
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Hominins may have eaten like tapirs
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Ancient nut and tuber residue found in Papua New Guinea
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Audio News for May 31st through June 6th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Bone isotope studies trace how maize became the cornerstone of Mesoamerican diets
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New DNA studies show multiple Caribbean migrations, followed by local culture change
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Sea otter studies help explain the past and guide the present
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Audio News for May 24th through the 30th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Virtual platform brings Jewish heritage sites to life
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Genetic study of skeletons reveals Lebanon’s long continuity
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Mining company destroys sacred aboriginal site 46,000 years old
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Dental tartar shows what people ate in Japan’s Edo period
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Audio News for May 17th through the 23rd, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
3D Footprints in Tanzania suggest gendered group activities
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Competition with modern humans may have been the cause of Neanderthal extinction, new research suggests
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Cadaver dogs may become archaeologists’ newest noninvasive tool
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Bone arrowpoint in southern Africa gives early date for advanced human cognition
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Audio News for May 10th through the 16th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Corn kernels mark rise of Cahokia metropolis
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Evolution and spread of rice in Asia triggered by global cooling
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How ancient African societies coped with epidemics
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Archaeologists date when a successful desert farming society collapsed
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Audio News for May 3rd through the 9th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Cahokia city causeway shows link between the living, the dead, and the Milky Way
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Early immigrants into the Indonesian islands switched from fish diet to giant rat
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High-energy X-rays help study and conserve metal artifacts from Renaissance-era ship
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Archaeological evidence puts pandemic effects into historical perspective
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Audio News for April 26th through May 2nd, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New series of direct dates on contact period sites upends assumptions about Iroquois history
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Bones from Çatalhöyük show practice of household burials, differences in women’s lifestyle
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Bulgarian grave mound turns up unique objects from Roman empire
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The first Africans in Mexico City reveal insights into infectious diseases
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Audio News for April 19th through the 25th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Ottoman merchant ship carried a surprisingly abundant cargo
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New study: Salish Sea basin was very densely populated and had very ancient culture
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Rising seas drove Scandinavian hunter-gatherers toward marine resources
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Culturally distinct cuisines among ancient Baltic hunter-gatherers
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Audio News for April 12th through the 18th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Melting ice in Norwegian pass reveals artifacts tracing trade and upland farming
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Molecular analysis shows history of milk and meat diet of east African cattle-herders
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Iron Age British rabbits and chickens were pets, not food, and sacred to the gods
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Sites in Alaska show heavy traffic, hunting and occupation in extreme weather
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Audio News for April 5th through the 11th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Oldest string ever found shows new evidence of Neanderthal brain power
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Mexican site shows how Mesoamerican copper smelting was adapted to new Spanish needs
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German Bronze Age site shows increasing similarities to Stonehenge
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London finds from 3000 years ago suggest long use for settlement and rituals
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Audio News for March 29th through April 4th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Watercourts kept fish from spoiling for Calusa in southern Florida
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Arkalochori Cave leads to more uncovered history about Minoan society
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Roman Emperor Caligula built floating palaces
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Mesopotamian war god's ritual site uncovered in Iraq
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Audio News for March 22nd through the 28th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Obsidian points used in Ohio rituals
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Plants were staple foods in the Ice Age
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Signs of world's earliest epidemic found in Chin
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Mesoamerican ball game spread earlier than previously thought
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Audio News for March 15th through the 21st, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Mammoth bone circle may be ice age Russian house
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New book debunks claim that Ponce de Leon was first European to see Florida
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Indonesian stone carvings are oldest stand-alone Ice Age art from southeast Asia
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New stupa find in Bangladesh is unusual pyramid shape and size
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Audio News for March 8th through the 14th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Protecting and preserving ancient sites at risk from sea-level rise In Florida
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Olives first domesticated 7,000 years ago in Israel, study says
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Eggshell beads made by hunter-gatherers 33,000 years ago used as a social network
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Ancient art found in Basque country changes understanding of prehistoric society
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Audio News for March 1st through the 7th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
3D imaging of Roman graffiti receives award
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Biggest ivory workshop in antiquity found in Pakistan
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Surplus of bear bones found at Mississippi dig site
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New tech helps pinpoint the dawn of horse domestication
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Audio News for February 23rd through the 29th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New survey to search for shipwrecks off California’s Channel Islands
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Indian museum exhibit recreates Harappan menu, stirring up new fight over ancient diet
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New databases of evidence from Incan conquest period show extent of forced relocation
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Italian monastery turns up ancient sword showing development of bronze in Anatolia
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Audio News for February 16th through the 22nd, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Recovered crew artifacts from ill-fated Franklin Expedition support new hypotheses
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Image of Egyptian sun God Ra discovered in ancient coffin at Harvard
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Collapse of reservoir’s dam could have influenced importance of Angkor Wat
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Significant 7th century BC tomb almost lost to construction of new sports complex in Italy
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Audio News for February 9th through the 15th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Bottled tears of love and mourning
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Ancient petroglyphs depict solstice art in Mesa Verde
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World’s possibly longest surviving folktale may have basis in fact
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More excavations planned to identify India’s legendary lost city
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Audio News for February 2nd through the 8th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Wasp nests utilized to date ancient Aboriginal rock art
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Portion of Central Park was once African-American community
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Curse tablets found in 2,500 year old well in Athens
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New research suggests varied origins of worlds' oldest pottery
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Audio News from Archaeologica, January 26th through February 1st, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Medieval mansion site explored in west London
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New studies show Cahokia area continued to thrive after giant city was abandoned
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Cave site suggests Neanderthals migrated into Siberia twice, the second time from Europe
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Assyrian gods appear in new rock carvings from Kurdistan
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Audio News from Archaeologica, January 19th through the 25th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Basque whaling ship reassembled in celebration of local maritime history
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Surprising DNA finds provide new insight into spread of human populations from sub-Saharan Africa
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Extensive Aboriginal ancient aquaculture system uncovered by Australian bushfires
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World’s oldest mosaic found in lost Hittite city
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Audio News for January 12th through the 18th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Archaeological evidence offers glimpse of Native American life in D.C.
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Neanderthals could swim and dive for clams
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200 interdisciplinary archaeologists work to uncover origins of Notre Dame
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Iron Age recycling in Dubai
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Audio News for January 5th through the 11th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New reading of a viking runestone suggests fear of a climate disaster
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Search begins for unmarked African-American graves in Clearwater
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Researchers publish 1,400 Iraqi cuneiform tablets stored at Hobby Lobby, many now missing
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New oldest sketch of Venice discovered
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Audio News for December 29th, 2019, through January 4th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Cooking carbs apparently very ancient
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Human remains beneath Connecticut home may be from Revolutionary War soldiers
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Loopholes emerge in Nevada state law on Native American burials
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Atherosclerosis found in pre-contact Inuit mummies
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Audio News for December 22nd through the 28th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New research on lost North American crops proves them as productive as maize
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Analysis shows people from across Ireland brought their own cattle to huge Iron Age feasts
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In eastern Mexico, archaeologists discover huge ancient Maya palace
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Magnetic anomaly reveals reason behind stone circle in Scotland
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Audio News for December 15th through the 21st, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Cutting edge technology in Texas aids archaeologists in critical documentation of rock art sites
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One of the world’s most famous structures has been going by wrong name for 2,000 years
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Long suspected mass gravesites identified from Tulsa Race Massacre
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Tar gum reveals 6000-year-old human DNA
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Audio News for December 8th through the 14th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Archaeologists uncover evidence of earliest known population in Connecticut
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6,000 wine amphorae dating to time of Jesus found in shipwreck on Greek sea floor
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Archaeologists now can more closely date when Christianity spread to Ethiopia
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First evidence of head cones found in ancient Egyptian tombs
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Audio News for December 1st through the 7th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Frozen Pleistocene puppy may answer an ancient question: “Dog-or” wolf?
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Cuneiform tablets in Iraq have outer envelopes with intricate and artistic security seals
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Climate change threatens enormously important early sites on Puerto Rico’s coast
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Iron Age warrior in Yorkshire found buried on his battered shield, with horses still pulling his chariot
Audio News for November 24th through the 30th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
African-American cemetery rediscovered in Tampa, Florida
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Varying sizes of ostrich eggshell beads suggests cohesion of changing African communities
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It might not have been Homo sapiens, but bad luck, that wiped out Neanderthals
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New chemical analysis technique used to recreate early Puerto Rican dish
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Audio News for November 17th through the 23rd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Possible medieval synagogue identified in Bulgaria
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2100-year-old infants in Ecuador buried wearing helmets made from kids’ skulls
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Unusual 9th century boat burial site unearthed in Norway
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143 massive new geoglyphs discovered on desert plain in Peru
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Audio News for November 10th through the 16th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
LiDAR technology provides insight into egalitarian Native American settlement in Florida
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Location of Navy submarine revealed after being lost in translation for 75 years
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New evidence points to climate change felling Neo-Assyrian Empire
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New genome research suggests Ancient Egyptians caught wild birds for mummification
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Audio News for November 3rd through the 9th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
DNA shows Rome has always been a melting pot of migrants
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Indian Supreme Court rules that a disputed sacred site belongs to the Hindus
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Two wooly mammoth traps found in Mexico
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New research gives a chronology to cultural developments in the Mongolian steppes
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Audio News for October 27th through November 2nd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Laser technology reveals Bronze Age monument in Forest of Dean
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Final journey of 5,300-year-old ice mummy identified by frozen moss
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Danger Cave among state monument candidates selected in Utah
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New excavations at Monte Verde could prove it to be earliest human settlement in South America
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Audio News for October 20th through the 26th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Sloan Canyon, Nevada, makes plans for a new visitor center
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Pontius Pilate built a road leading to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount
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Third-graders dig up artifacts in their classroom closet in New York
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New evidence narrows down when early humans learned to make fire
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Audio News from Archaeologica, October 13th through the 19th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Michelle Hilling, founding partner in Audio News and Archaeologica, dies after a brief illness.
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Archaeologist uses online map to identify 27 previously undiscovered Maya ritual sites
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30 3,000-year-old Egyptian coffins opened to reveal well preserved mummies inside
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Cache shows what a well-prepared Bronze Age warrior brought to the battlefield
Audio News for October 6th through the 12th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Ancient “industrial area” and two female mummies uncovered in Egypt
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Monastery on Irish farmer’s land supplied a mother monastery in France
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Canned soup for the stone age cave dweller
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Finland agrees to return remains, Native American artifacts from 19th century
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Audio News for September 29th through October 5th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Archaeologists uncover large, ancient city in Israel
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19th Century neighborhood found beneath Houston park
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International research explores using modern techniques in fight against extinction
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Oldest South Asian tools found in Sri Lankan cave
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Audio News for September 22nd through the 28th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Thousands of Native American heritage sites will be underwater by 2100
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First evidence for prehistoric baby bottles found in Bavaria, Germany
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Bronze head-shaped jar belonging to an ancient sports fan found in Bulgarian grave
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New technique helps archaeologists limit bone destruction
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Audio News for September 15th through the 21st, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New analysis of Native American DNA reveals migration patterns across US
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New hypothesis for Neanderthal extinction involves common childhood illness
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Answers to Neolithic aquaculture discovered in China
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Icelandic walrus extinction likely due to over-exploitation
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Audio News for September 8th through 14th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Bronze statuette from the 6th century BCE discovered on St. Cyricus Island
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'Lovers of Modena,' buried with hands intertwined, revealed to be men
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Electrician finds a 4,500-year-old dagger at a burial cave in Israel
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Native American ruins found in the path of a highway project in Colorado
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Audio News for September 1st through the 7th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New study explains how one well-preserved Dead Sea Scroll outlasted all the others
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Six-headed burial in Scotland may shed light on medieval clan warfare
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Hohokam skeleton found below golf course in southern Arizona
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New Denisovan finger bone data suggests closer relationship to modern humans
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Audio News for August 25th through the 31st, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Unusual prehistoric monument and skeleton excavated in central France
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Four dumped ancient skulls could reveal violent Inca Empire
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Ancient Persian post office unearthed in Turkey
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Marine archaeologists explore sunken 19th century shipwreck
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Audio News for August 18th through the 24th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Mural depicting a humanlike toad discovered in Peru
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Boys’ skeletons with artificially-shaped skulls found in Croatia
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Submerged boat building site reveals skills used 2,000 years earlier than expected
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Altar in Atorath appears to reference an ancient biblical war
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Audio News for August 11th through the 17th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Preserving the Alamo from rising groundwater in its soil
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Inscription from Paphos shows ancient city states in Cyprus mixed local innovation with Greek and other influences
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Wooden chest from Pompeii reveals magician’s toolkit of lucky charms
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Iceland excavations find new buildings at large Medieval and Viking era site
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Audio News for August 4th through the 10th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Analysis of Maya ruins challenges perceptions of Classic collapse
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Archaeologists uncover Norse drinking hall in Orkney
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Remains of Graeco-Roman council building discovered in ancient Egyptian city
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Earliest high-altitude dwelling found in Ethiopian mountains
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Audio News for July 28th through August 3rd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Archaeologists unearth Hellenistic sanctuary complex in Cyprus
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Engraved standing stones found during construction in Switzerland
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4000-year old remains found facing each other in a grave in Kazakhstan
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Imported metal common in Bronze Age Scandinavia
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Audio News for July 21st through the 27th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New study of pre-contact Panamanian site shows high importance of deer for ritual feasting
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Israeli site from Egyptian times produces 3500-year-old fertility goddesses
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Early site in Ecuador reveals new coastal archaic phase
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Baltic waters reveal well preserved ship from the early Age of Exploration
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Audio News for July 14th through the 20th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Discovered Galilee church could mark birthplace of Saint Peter.
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Analysis suggests Vikings might have stayed longer in Canada.
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Waterloo field hospital reveals lost limbs during first excavation.
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New analysis of pottery supports Stonehenge greased sled theory.
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Audio News for July 7th through the 13th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
6000-year-old dart tip at Wanuskewin dig site
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Two dozen wine amphoras recovered in Ionian Sea
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Ornaments found for portable shrine used in ancient Japanese festival
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Ancient Dionysus cult dedicated slab to Roman emperors
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Audio News for June 30th through July 6th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Sweden and Norway report new finds of Viking burial ships
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Evidence of workshops for famed purple dye found in Phoenician site materials
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Early Chinese site shows evidence of skull shaping for over 6,000 years
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Houston dig finds thousands of artifacts from historic German, African American and Mexican neighborhood
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Audio News for June 23rd through the 29th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Archaeologists find fresh uses for Cold War photographs
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New research questions Viking gender roles
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Archaeologists excavate original Woodstock site
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Scientists discover new technique for burned bones
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Audio News for June 16th through the 22nd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Giant carvings in Peruvian desert revealed to depict foreign birds
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Evidence of “Britain's Atlantis” settlements found under North Sea
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Ancient tomb painter used heating techniques to modify pigments
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Colonial “time capsule” found under floorboards of burned 1760s port tavern
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Audio News June 9th to June 15th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
In Austria, ancient charred ‘Cheerios’ open new lines of inquiry
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New analysis of burials and diet from digs at Rome’s seaport tells the story of Roman decline
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Khipus from new Peruvian site suggest system of Inca taxation on farm crops
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New Brunswick development brings regimental history into collision with early settlement materials
Audio News for June 2nd through the 8th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Researchers in Germany work against the clock to identify 1000 year old body.
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Team in Normandy attempting to preserve and catalogue every remnant of D-Day.
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Ancient Scottish well uncovered for the first time since the Victorians.
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Wreckage of last US slave ship found on the bayou.
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Audio News for May 26th through June 1st, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Sacred archaeological site in southern Utah vandalized
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5,000 year old yeast revived to make ancient Egyptian beer
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Mysterious 137-year-old Winchester rifle gets an exhibit in Utah
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Audio News for May 19th through the 25th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Iron-Age shield from England was made from carefully layered bark
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Australian aboriginal aquaculture site proposed for UNESCO world heritage list
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Roman forum area dig produces beautiful new marble head
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Moche stew pot buried in Peru offered all the ingredients in the environment
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Audio News for May 12th through the 18th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Urine residues in central Turkey are key to understanding domestication of livestock.
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Molten metal used in ancient Roman road repair.
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Shallow river levels reveal swathes of Canadian historical artifacts.
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Russian farmer accidentally uncovers ancient Sarmatian burial mound.
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Audio News for May 5th through the 11th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Secret chamber found in Nero’s palace decorated with centaurs and a sphinx
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Richest cache of ancient mind-altering drugs found in South America
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New finds at Hadrian’s Wall: A game board and horseshoes
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Study finds increased use of quartz tools 14,000 years ago linked to mysticism
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Audio News for April 28th through May 4th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
New lidar finds in Mayan Guatemala include burial chamber of a king and queen
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New results from Hagia Sophia research show larger size and beautifully different exterior
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New tombs found in Egypt from Old Kingdom pyramid area
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Spanish anchor found off Veracruz may be from fleet of conquistador Cortes
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Audio News for April 22nd through the 27th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Mesoamerican sculptors used magnetic rock to create meaningful figures.
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Researchers discover an entire venomous snake in prehistoric Texas feces.
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Archaeologists uncover the complex architectural systems of Early Cycladic society across Greek islands.
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Archaeologists in Alaska discover a gruesome 350 year old massacre.
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Audio News for April 14th through the 20th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Largest-ever Maya figurine factory discovered
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An ancient Egyptian woman had the teeth of a craftsman
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Oldest tomb in China found, with “squatting” owner
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A steady supply of beer could’ve kept the Wari Empire going for 500 years
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Audio News for April 7th through the 13th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Translation of Cherokee cave inscriptions reveals ceremonial and sacred history
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French kindergarteners find Bell Beaker pottery and burials in their playground
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Cave in Croatia produces first Paleolithic figurative cave art in the Balkans
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Zoo construction in Rio uncovers thousands of artifacts from Brazil’s period of empire
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Audio News for March 31st through April 6th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Archaeologists uncover sacrifices that could be the first discovered Aztec royal burial.
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Archaeologists discover that 17th century Icelanders burned whale bones alongside wood.
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Stamp and seal bearing biblical names uncovered in City of David.
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Detailed statue of a Roman emperor found in 356 pieces.
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Audio News for March 24th through March 30th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Fanciful medieval toddler shoe found in Switzerland
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Ancient temple palace found near the temple of Ramses II
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Sword of famed Hispano-Muslim warlord digitized in 3D
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Food court fresco: snack food counter unearthed in Pompeii
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Audio News for March 18th through March 23rd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Egyptian ship is first example of unique construction described by Herodotus in 450 BC
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Search continues for ships Cortes burned in 1519
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Persian-era jar from Israel depicts ugly good-luck deity
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Global comparative study shows moralizing deities come after rise of complex societies, not before
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Audio News for March 10th through March 16th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Forgotten board game rules unearthed in ancient Chinese tomb
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DNA study shows that men in Spain 4500 years ago left little genetic legacy
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200 year old pipe provides scientific breakthrough at Maryland plantation site
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An unearthed Greek inscription marks the site of a lost Incense Route city
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Audio News for March 3rd through March 9th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Archaeologists surprised to discover that Neanderthals ate “fast” food
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Archaeologists discover a Maya ritual cave, untouched for 1,000 years
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World’s ‘oldest’ tattooing kit found in a box years after it was thought to be destroyed
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Rare Roman quarry graffiti to be captured in 3D
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Audio News for February 17th through the 23rd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Archaeologist names Native American pottery as the original social networks
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Notable Viking warrior remains confirmed to be female
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Archaeologists apply new techniques to strange ancient Corsican burials uncovered in the 1960s
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Pieces of Stonehenge found to have been dragged 180 miles from Wales
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Audio News for February 10th through the 16th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Terracotta mask of emperor found in early monastery site on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast
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New study of 2,000 megalith dates puts origin in northwest France, with spread along coastlines
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House of Leda fresco in Pompeii reveals vivid painting of Narcissus, along with other luxuries
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Airport construction for more tourism threatens many sites around Machu Picchu
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Audio News for February 3rd through the 9th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
De-facto genocide during America’s colonization brought on Little Ice Age
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14th-century medieval sword found in pavement in Denmark
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New map of Beringia offers clues to human migration
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40 mummies discovered in Egyptian village
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Audio News for January 27th through February 2nd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Identity of mysterious Roman woman in Slovenian cemetery eludes archaeologists.
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Lost South African metropolis discovered by advanced laser technology.
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Eroded Alaskan graveyard provides fresh data on ancient Arctic populations.
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Uzbek-Russian archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Asian fortress.
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Audio News for February 24th through March 2nd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Smuggled mummy parts caught at Cairo airport
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Facial recognition software helps put names to soldiers in Civil War photos
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Byzantine-era estate in Israel produces Greek inscription blessing the owner
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Cactus spine needle with pigment reveals use of tattooing by ancestral Puebloans
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Audio News for January 20th through the 26th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Grave of Iron Age warrior discovered in northern Iran
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Research begins at mysterious Algerian pyramid tomb
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Drought reveals a submerged several thousand-year-old settlement
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3,000-year-old quinoa seeds found in Ontario, Canada
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Audio News for January 13th through the 19th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Western Indian find of early Buddha depiction adds to understanding of Buddhism’s spread
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U.S. government shutdown harms cultural resource research and researchers nationwide
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Scratched-out names and faces of ancient Egpytian couple was an effort to erase their afterlife
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World’s oldest classroom periodic table is found in Scottish storeroom
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Audio News for January 6th through the 12th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
Medieval woman’s blue teeth could begin new avenue of archaeology
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Research points to seagrass as natural underwater preservation
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Ancient Mongolian bones show they were more likely to fall off horses than get sick
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Polish archaeologists discover Maya tomb is actually ancient steam room
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Audio News for December 30th, 2018, through January 5th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
13th-century catapult ball found in Edinburgh
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First known temple of the “Flayed Lord” discovered
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This 2,300-year-old Egyptian fortress guarded a port that sent elephants to war
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Oldest human burial in lower Central America discovered
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