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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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Audio News July 18th throug...

07.26.2021

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.

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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.
12.14.2020 Audio News for December 6th through the 12th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Bronze age Greek helmet in Croatia; reindeer-hunting artifacts in Norway ice patch; Southwestern mummies reflect community support of the dying; and Tudor-era coins in English garden.
12.07.2020 Audio News for November 29th through December 5th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient Islamic Period necropolis in Spain; extensive hydrological sytems at Tikal; Greek antiquities traffickers busted; and vast rock art imagery including extinct animals in Colombian Amazon.
11.30.2020 Audio News for November 22nd through the 28th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Hallucinogenic plants in California rock art cave; Ancient Publoan blanket took thousands of turkey feathers; Saudi Arabia opens Hegra to tourism; and ten more mythological mask reliefs at ancient theater in Turkey.
11.23.2020 Audio News for November 15th through the 21st, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Roman watchtower in Bulgaria; underground caves as water sources for early Puebloans, Japanese document with code of conduct for workers; and Viking longship excavation in Norway.
11.16.2020 Audio News for November 8th through the 14th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Multi-ethnicity and wide genetic connections for the culture north of the Great Wall; the truth be\hind the Great Fire of Rome; size differences in extinct South African hominid; and shipworms represent threat to ...
11.09.2020 Audio News for November 1st through the 7th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Tooth wear and task specialization in Bronze Age women in Spain; early Andes burial is female hunter; Henry VIII jousting venue located; and unmarked graves possibly Tulsa Massacre mass burial.
11.02.2020 Audio News for October 25th through the 31st, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient dog DNA fills in gaps in human history; Mississipian diaspora from Cahokia; Bronze Age adaptation to climate change in SE Turkey; and signet stone reflects a pluralistic Jerusalem.
10.26.2020 Audio News for October 18th through the 24th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Cat geoglyph among Nazca Lines; artifacts rescued from melting Alpine glaciers; dispute over Titanic radio; and conserving perishable Arctic artifacts.
10.19.2020 Audio News for October 11th through the 17th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: 3000-year-old leather balls in Central Asia; climate change and extinction of key human species; Greek cave documents long span of human cultural evolution; and Confederate monument in Georgia poses challenges in anti-racist era.
10.12.2020 Audio News for October 4th through the 10th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient Viking temple in Norway; masked clay figurine in western Siberia; human cells preserved by Vesuvius eruption; and inhospitable Bering Sea island.
10.05.2020 Audio News for September 27th through October 3rd, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Land management in ancient Amazonia; sequence of Caribbean Islands settlement; the long view of human effects on ecosystems; and New Mexico’s 1680 Pueblo Revolt.
09.29.2020 Audio News for September 20th through the 26th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Rare Shakespeare volume in Spanish library; exhibit on 400th anniversary of Mayflower sailing; mummified Egyptian birds were wild; and city in northern Turkey much older than expected.
09.22.2020 Audio News for September 13th through the 19th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Excavating America’s first Black church; Mexican slave ship carried Maya people; Spanish cave art possibly made by both sexes; and DNA study of Viking burials.
09.14.2020 Audio News for September 6th through the 12th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Date fruit produced from 200-7ear-old seeds; drone finds Kansas earthwork; literacy in ancient Israel; and why culture lagged behind human physical development.
09.09.2020 Audio News for August 30th through September 5th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Sea-bottom cult offerings off Israeli coast; ancient storms contributed to Maya decline; new take on Easter Island population decline; and face-down burials and European epidemics.
08.31.2020 Audio News for August 23rd through the 29th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Illegal Sudan gold mining destroys sites; imported pet monkeys from India found in Egypt; prehistoric musical instruments in southern Africa; and well dressed mummies in northern Chile.
08.24.2020 Audio News for August 16th through the 22nd, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: 500,000 year old site in England; early humans on eastern Indonesian island; historical Black cemeteries in the US; and early stone monuments in Saudi Arabia.
08.17.2020 Audio News Special Edition for August 16, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Signs of world's earliest epidemic found in China; archaeological evidence puts pandemic effects into historical perspective; how ancient African societies coped with epidemics; and epidemics revealed in human teeth.

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