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The archaeology news of the week in audio, brought to you by The Archaeology Channel, compiled and written by Michelle Hilling of Archaeologica.org and read by Laura Pettigrew. The Audio News from Archaeologica is compiled from Archaeologica.org's daily news updates.

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11.29.2021

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Maya salt factory in Belize; Canadian bison uncover petroglyphs; Seleucid fortress in Israel; and analysis of Justinianic Plague.

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11.29.2021 Audio News for November 21st through the 27th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Maya salt factory in Belize; Canadian bison uncover petroglyphs; Seleucid fortress in Israel; and analysis of Justinianic Plague.
11.22.2021 Audio News for November 14th through the 20th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Wooly mammoth extinction; agriculture in Maya kingdoms; ancient mercury poisoning; and volcanic eruptions and Chinese dynastic collapses.
11.16.2021 Audio News for November 7th through the 13th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Canada’s oldest English coin; support for Transeurasian languages proposal; slave room at Pompeii; and wooden bird once owned by Anne Boleyn.
11.08.2021 Audio News for October 31st through November 6th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: First child skull of Homo naledi; submerged Roman villas; first complete Maya canoe; and Native Americans object to plans for Boston harbor island.
11.01.2021 Audio News for October 24th through the 30th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Early Tarim Basis farmers were indigenous; major Sumatran site being plundered; resident population at Chaco Canyon; and new species nomenclature proposed for early humans.
10.25.2021 Audio News for October 17th through the 23rd, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: DNA and the spread of domesticated horses; gold shunned in the Caucasus; cosmic radiation helps date Viking site in Newfoundland; and foragers in Madagascar altered the landscape.
10.18.2021 Audio News for October 10th through the 16th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Tooth analysis rules out Japan as Native American homeland; medieval knowledge of North America in Italy; Azorean lake sediments indicate early human settlement; and 6-million-year-old hominin footprints in Crete.
10.11.2021 Audio News for October 3rd through the 9th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Lost script of Easter Island; Siberian dogs show wide DNA connections; Aztec obsidian mirror used in court of Queen Elizabeth I; and the first Black church in Williamsburg.
10.04.2021 Audio News for September 26th through October 2nd, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Micronesian islanders adapt; Tikal neighborhood with Teotihuancan influence; Etruscan genetics; and Vinland Map forgery.
09.27.2021 Audio News for September 19th through the 25th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Meteor impact as the origin of Sodom story; surprisingly old human footprints in New Mexico; quick Maya recovery from volcanic blast in El Salvador; and worry about Afghan sites following Taliban return.
09.20.2021 Audio News Sep. 12th through the 18th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Bronze Age coffin’s new secrets; Tibetan handprints, footprints – earliest art?; Pleistocene tools reveal clothing tech; and cataloging at-risk U.S. Afro-American graves.
09.13.2021 Audio News September 5th through 11th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Acropolis reno may erase centuries of history; Korea’s Moon Castle evinces human sacrifice; Chinese artifacts show ancient peoples’ creativity; and new insight into Ancient Pueblo turkey-keeping.
09.06.2021 Audio News for August 29th through September 4th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Sophisticated Neanderthal bone tools in Italy; first DNA from ancient human lineage in Indonesia; Poverty Point earthworks show surpising hunter-gatherer capabilities; and complexities of Viking culture.
08.30.2021 Audio News for August 22nd through the 28th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: First Clovis site in Michigan; violence among early farmers in Chile’s Atacama Desert; Aztec pictographs document earthquakes; and Herculaneum bones show different diets for males and females.
08.22.2021 Audio News Special Edition for August 22, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Tree rings evidence warming climate; Ancestral Puebloan disruptions; oldest cave art threatened by climate change; and team studies climate change archaeology.
08.16.2021 Audio News for August 8th through the 14th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Urbanization in southern India; lion image in Roman Britain; Mongolian artifacts emerging from ice; and ancient rope bridges in Peru.
08.09.2021 Audio News for August 1st through the 8th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Babylonians had advanced geometric knowledge; artifact trove from sunken Egyptian city; secrets of Maya ceramic glazes; and Neanderthals painted in Spanish cave.
08.02.2021 Audio News for July 25th through the 31st, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient ship at Alexandria; Japanese lake sediments and the rise of agriculture; Indigenous archaeologist with GPR finds lost Indigenous children; and techniques for identifying microscopic food remains.
07.26.2021 Audio News July 18th through the 24th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Image of Babylon’s Last King Found; Clues from Final Meal after 2,400 years; Ancient Roman Road Remnants in Venice Lagoon; and Team Studies Climate Change Archaeology.
07.19.2021 Audio News for July 11th through the 17th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Lakota shirt repatriated; Greek poet-astronomer tomb in Turkey; Easter Island population crash refuted; and ancient Greek feasting site on Cyprus.
07.12.2021 Audio News for July 4th through the 10th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Gabonese burials with front teeth removed; Neanderthal bone carving in Germany; Chickasaw use of captures Spanish metal objects; and search for Shackleton ship in Antarctic.
07.05.2021 udio News for June 27th through July 3rd, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Tree-ring dating of Bronze Age Italian wooden pool; human waste analysis at Maya city in Guatemala; historic pipe tomahawk returns to Nebraska tribe; and Neolithic snake staff in Finland.
06.28.2021 Audio News for June 20th through the 26th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Oldest known shark attack victim; urban park in Tikal; and pre-Neolithic grain reliance at Göbekli Tepe.
06.21.2021 Audio News for June 13th through the 19th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: German Stonehenge was residential; Google Earth reveals India geoglyph; and long-lost indigenous town in Florida; Sudanese pyramids under threat from sand
06.14.2021 Audio News for June 6th through the 12th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Coin hoard in Poland from Carolingian times; forest management in prehistoric Amazon; and Native American tribe in Maine buys back ancestral land; pandemic enables looting in Italy.
06.07.2021 Audio News for May 30th through June 5th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Viking Age hoard in Scotland; Mexican National guard protects Teotihuacan; digital reconstruction of Maya jades; and decapitated burials in Roman Period England.
05.31.2021 Audio News for May 23rd through the 29th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: New excavations at Meroe urban complex; tattoo implements in Tennessee; Tulsa Race Massacre excavation; and animal bones and kosher laws in Israel.
05.24.2021 Audio News for May 16th through the 22nd, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Machine learning for sorting potsherds; European impact on Guadeloupe reptiles; Roman soldier at Herculaneum; and human DNA from cave sediment.
05.17.2021 Audio News for May 9th through the 15th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient Roman Hell Gate and carbon dioxide; oldest cave art threatened by climate change; ancient mouth bacteria; and argument over Bears Ears National Monument.
05.10.2021 Audio News for May 2nd through the 8th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Early coin at Maryland colonial fort; human-caused extinctions on islands; portrait of Henry the 8th bride; and oldest human burial in Africa.
05.03.2021 Audio News for April 25th through the May 1st, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: LIDAR survey in the Yucatán; pregnant Egyptian mummy; Ancestral Puebloan disruptions; and boat-shaped hearth in Icelandic cave.
04.26.2021 Audio News for April 18th through the 24th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Gladiator arena in SW Anatolia; Harriet Tubman cabin discovered; sustainable stewardship over time by Indigenous groups; and arboreal and terrestrial adaptations by austalopithecines.
04.19.2021 Audio News for April 11th through the 17th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Oldest evidence of West Africa honey use; late dates for Middle Stone Age in Senegal; Pacific Coast Native Americans ate more than salmon; and Caribbean cannibalism debunked.
04.12.2021 Audio News for April 4th through the 10th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Aztec written language; early hominids as hypercarnivores; cave artists risked hypoxia; and no evidence of Cahokia deforestation.
04.05.2021 Audio News for March 28th through April 3rd, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Yemeni coins in New England; miracles and sixth-century floods in italy; colorful Roman marble in Bulgaria; and mummified parrots and macaws in the Atacama Desert.
03.29.2021 Audio News for March 21st through the 27th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Wealth gaps in Maya societies; new understandings of ancient Texas murals; Donner Party rejected Native help with violence; and African-American remains in US museums.
03.22.2021 Audio News for March 14th through the 20th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Revolutionary War battlefield in South Carolina; biblical scroll fragments from West Bank cave; new computer recreation of the Antikythera Mechanism; and Bronze Age queen burial in Spain.
03.15.2021 Audio News for March 7th through the 13th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Cambodian iron furnace documents shifts in Earth’s magnetic field; water efficiency in early hominids; factors influencing women as hunters; and cave footprints in Spain.
03.08.2021 Audio News for February 28th through March 6th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Elaborate ceremonial carriage near Pompeii; Alaskan sediment cores may signal early human arrival in North America; dental x-ray scanner reads unopened Renassance letter; and scientists surveyed about Neanderthal demise.
03.01.2021 Audio News for February 21st through the 27th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Study of Florida burial mounds; 18th century school for Black children in Williamsburg; Himalayan lake with 300 skeletons; and early Medieval Celtic memorial stones.
02.22.2021 Audio News for February 14th through the 20th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Oldest Egyptian brewery; Australian grinding stone with moth remains; global study about good governance; and Silk Road trade hindered by ancient drought.
02.15.2021 Audio News for February 7th through the 13th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Statuettes at ancient theater in Turkey; oldest known Chinese face cream; Venetian beads in pre-contact northern Alaska sites; and 18000-year-old wind instrument from French cave.
02.08.2021 Audio News for January 31st through February 6th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Environmental change and the creation of the Egyptian nation-state; Early Medieval graveyard in Cambridge, England; update on Peru’s Cloud Warriors; and Bronze Age changes in Switzerland.
02.01.2021 Audio News for January 24th through the 30th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: 3000-year-old royal purple dye in Israel; very ancient milk consumption in Africa; dogs as the companions of the first Americans; and physical trauma study of medieval Cambridge cemeteries.
01.25.2021 Audio News for January 17th through the 23rd, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Book of the Dead chapter and temple in Egypt; Early Bronze Age objects possibly used as money; Hopewell sites in Ohio nominated for World Heritage; and systematic study of ancient knowledge and its ...
01.18.2021 Audio News for January 10th through the 16th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Aphrodite temple in Turkey; facial reconstruction of Siberian couple; female statue in Mexico; and Sulawesi warty pig as oldest cave art.
01.11.2021 Audio News for January 3rd through the 9th, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: South African bones mean more hominid species; indigenous-led archaeology in Australia; death threats to Peruvian archaeologist; and Yellowstone Park treasure hunter convicted.
01.04.2021 Audio News for December 27th, 2020, through January 2nd, 2021 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient Peruvian farmers took advantage of El Nino; effort at Bozeman Trail historic nomination; fast-food restaurant in Pompeii; and tree rings evidence warming climate.
12.28.2020 Audio News for December 20th through the 26th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Agriculture in ancient forest islands of the Amazon; Doggerland points made of human bone; DNA upends the story of Caribbean migrations; and imported foods common in Bronze Age Levant.
12.21.2020 Audio News for December 13th through the 19th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Counterfeit silver in early Middle East; climate change ended Central Asian civilizations; more skulls for Aztec tower of skulls; and high craftsmanship in Scottish cross.

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