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Join Laurie and Ben this week as they talk through new discoveries that shed light on how the Bronze Age people of Britain commemorated their dead, new research into the origins of human lactase persistence and the mysterious case of Walrus remains buried with 3 human skulls in a victorian graveyard, enjoy!

Links

Bronze Age Burial Practices

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/01/bronze-age-britons-keepsakes-parts-dead-relatives-archaeologists

Lactase Persistence

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31187-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982220311878%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

https://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/12031_ENG_HTML.php

Walrus

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08qbzsm/the-walrus-found-in-a-human-grave

Join Laurie and Ben this week as they talk through, the 3D reconstruction of the now destroyed,Temple of Bel, through tourist pictures and AI. 15,000 year old art found in Jersey, and the Storegga Slide - the mesolithic tsunami that devastated the UK and Norway. 

Temple of Bel

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-temple-virtual-exploration.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34111092

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/palmyra2/ancientpalmyra/a/temple-of-bel-palmyra

Paleolithic Art in Jersey

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/19/engraved-stones-found-on-jersey-an-art-form-of-15000-years-ago

Storegga Slide

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/7/270/htm

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/tsunami-britain-atlantis-6200-bc-archaeology-a9622591.html

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/43/2/111/131755/Moss-growth-patterns-and-timing-of-human-exposure?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Join Laurie and Ben this week where they’re talking through evidence of the world's oldest bed, complete with insect repellents, the latest research into a sunken WW1 german U-boat containing war secrets, and genetic research suggesting Neanderthals might have been more sensitive to pain. Enjoy!

Links To Stories

200,000 Year Old Bed https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/369/6505/863.full.pdf

German U-Boat Secrets

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ww1-german-submarine-uc47-navy-flamborough-head-yorkshire-north-sea-archaeology-history-a9655336.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8906-200806-submarine-north-sea

Neanderthal Pain

https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2820%2930861-7

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200723115900.htm

Join Laurie and Ben this week to discover the source of the stones from Stonehenge, new revelations in how early humans reached the Americas and the world's first underwater museum in Greece. Enjoy!

Links

Stonehenge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-53580339

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/29/archaeologists-discover-source-stonehenge-giant-sarsen-stones

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-and-stories/building-stonehenge/#:~:text=The%20sarsen%20stones%20are%20a,exact%20origin%20remained%20a%20mystery.

Peopling of the Americas

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02137-3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2509-0

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/archaeology-discovery-americas-us-human-story-prehistory-a9632161.html

Underwater Museum

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/parthenon-of-shipwrecks-greece-opens-its-first-underwater-museum

Join Laurie and Ben this week to talk through new research revealing how close high status neolithic families really were, how a eruption in Alaska could have impacted the end of the Roman Republic and the story of a 20th century fraud. 

See links to all the stories below

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01655-4?fbclid=IwAR21KB4L349UcLf1B5enMeZMW3rlsmGRU5--1LVYJiy7k_oq7W5CAbphPWI

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/dna-ancient-irish-tomb-reveals-incest-and-elite-class-ruled-early-farmers

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/27/15443

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/alaskan-mega-eruption-may-have-helped-end-roman-republic

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2016/august/piltdown-man-charles-dawson-likely-fraudster.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwvIT5BRCqARIsAAwwD-SFvDyhWaezQezut2PBibdO4ZPJrPWQjMQLWUg0rGOnWW22Y8AT5jAaAqx8EALw_wcB

In this weeks episode Laurie and Ben talk through the Spanish archaeologist jailed for faking groundbreaking artefacts, the latest discoveries at Stonehenge, and one of the greatest hoaxes of all time...the Cardiff Giant. Enjoy!

See the links to the stories below 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/12/europe/spain-archeologist-sentenced-intl-scli/index.html

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/spanish-archaeologists-fake-discoveries-1885953

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-53132567#:~:text=A%20ring%20of%20large%20shafts,more%20than%204%2C500%20years%20ago.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cardiff-giant-was-just-big-hoax-180965274/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant

This week, Ben and Laurie discuss new revelations on the domestication of Santa’s preferred transport, the lucky discovery of the oldest 3D art ever found in Asia, and ancient aboriginal stories accurately passed down and over 400 generations - Enjoy!

See the links below

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8798-200615-arctic-reindeer-domestication

https://www.folio.ca/reindeer-were-domesticated-much-earlier-than-previously-thought-new-study-suggests/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-tale-told-accurately-for-10-000-years/

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/aboriginal-tale-ancient-volcano-oldest-story-ever-told#:~:text=Is%20an%20Aboriginal%20tale%20of%20an,the%20oldest%20story%20ever%20told%3F&text=Long%20ago%2C%20four%20giant%20beings,lava%20the%20volcano%20spat%20out. 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200610152006.htm

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233370

Once, twice, three times...with Ben and Laurie. This week they'll be covering evidence of humans hunting & eating predators in the Palaeolithic, the latest research in modelling neanderthal extinction using a super computer, and the discover of the remains of the Irish legend, Red Hugh O'Donnell. Enjoy!

See the links to all the stories Ben and Laurie speak about below:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8713-200522-neanderthal-extinction-scenarios

https://ibsclimate.org/research-news/supercomputer-model-simulations-reveal-cause-of-neanderthal-extinction/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379120302936

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/spanish-archaeologists-recover-bones-in-search-for-remains-of-red-hugh-o-donnell-1.4259973

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/who-was-red-hugh-o-donnell-the-fiery-symbol-of-gaelic-resistance-1.4266919#:~:text=If%20discovered%20intact%2C%20Red%20Hugh's,Castle)%20or%20fractures%2C%20possibility%20associated

Back by no demand, it's episode 2. In this episode Laurie and Ben chat through the latest ancient DNA research shedding new light on how the Americas were populated, 15,000 years of earache, and the discovery of a 7th century English saint with the best miracles you've never heard of.

Show Links:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8709-200521-native-american-ancestorhttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/oldest-cousin-native-americans-found-russia#https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)30502-X.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS009286742030502X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue 

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-archaeology-of-ear-infections-shows-farming-didn-t-ruin-our-health-1.8860082

That's right, it's our first ever episode! We'll cover, how lasers are helping us discover hundreds of new prehistoric sites, early human migration into Europe, and what you can learn from hundreds of 12,000-year-old footprints.

Want to know more? See the links to the stories below:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/05/dozens-of-prehistoric-roman-and.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8698-200515-tanzania-footprints-trackway

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64095-0

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52614870