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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 for January 3rd ...

01.11.2021

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.

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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.
08.10.2020 Audio News for August 2nd through the 8th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Fluted points from Arabia; intact Inca offerings in Lake Titicaca; Australian mining company apologizes; and Northern Ireland’s Navan Fort.
08.03.2020 Audio News for July 26th through August 1st, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/ancient-teeth-show-history-of-epidemics-is-much-older-than-we-thought/2020/07/24/4f18ed94-b641-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_epidemichistory-345pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
07.27.2020 Audio News for July 19th through the 25th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Blackbeard ship grounding; smallpox from the Viking Age; analysis suggests very early North American migration; and Jerusalem site from time of biblical kings.
07.20.2020 Audio News for July 12th through the 18th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Sites threatened by India development; Tulsa, Oklahoma, excavations seek mass grave from race massacre; Kazakhstan Bronze Age burial evidences early horse riding; and underwater prehistoric sites in Australia.
07.14.2020 Audio News for July 5th through the 11th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Confederate monument gives up time capsule; ancient ocher mines in the Yucatan; rock engravings inside megalithic Israel burial chamber; and an history of an Ethiopian lake.
07.06.2020 Audio News for June 28th through July 4th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Korea Legoland threatens major site; Alaskan eruption as a cause for demise of Roman Republic; bad water in Tikal reservoirs; and aerial and satellite imagery locates thousands of Syrian sites.
06.29.2020 Audio News for June 21st through the 27th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Italian church wooden statue is Europe’s oldest; 5000-year-old fishing tools in Norway; surprisingly early Viking longhouse in Iceland; and volunteers excavate Hindu temple.
06.22.2020 Audio News for June 14th through the 20th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: New discoveries at Uxmal; very old arrowheads in Sri Lanka; underwater bones from French ship off Texas coast;and Newgrange bones suggest incest.
06.15.2020 Audio News for June 7th through the 13th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Oldest shell midden in China; tapir study about sagittal crests and diet; and New Guinea starch grains.
06.08.2020 Audio News for May 31st through June 6th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Belize study of bone isotopes informs on the rise of Mesoamerican maize; DNA analysis and Caribbean migrations; sea otter study on the Northwest coast; and Bronze Age population movements to Anatolia.
06.01.2020 Audio News for May 24th through the 30th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Virtual platform for Jewish heritage sites; genetic continuity in Lebanon; Australian mining company destroys ancient Aboriginal site; and dental tartar reveals diet of Japan’s Edo period.
05.26.2020 Audio News for May 17th through the 23rd, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Early footprints in Tanzania; modeling Neanderthal extinction; cadaver dogs in archaology; and early bone arrowpoint in southern Africa.
05.18.2020 Audio News for May 10th through the 16th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Maize came shortly before Cahokia; global cooling prompted spread of rice; ancient Africa and epidemics; and dating the collapse of Negev farming.
05.11.2020 Audio News for May 3rd through the 9th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Cahokia causeway orientation; dietary shift in early Indonesia; X-rays explore Mary Rose artifacts; and archaeological perspective on pandemic effects.
05.04.2020 Audio News for April 26th through May 2nd, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: New dates correct the story of early contact in North America; burials inside homes at Çatalhöyük; unique Roman burial goods in Bulgaria; and first Africans in Mexico City.
04.27.2020 Audio News for April 19th through the 25th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ottoman merchant ship with surprising cargo; Salish Sea basin population was large and ancient; increased use of marine resources by Scandinanvian hunter-gatherers; and cuisines of ancient Baltic hunter-gatherers.
04.20.2020 Audio News for April 12th through the 18th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Melting snow patch in Norway reveals ancient artifacts; fatty traces evidence history of milk and meat diet in East Africa; rabbits and chickens as pets in Iron Age Britain; and ancient use of ...
04.13.2020 Audio News for April 5th through the 11th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Neanderthal site with world’s oldest string; Spanish use of native Mexican copper smelting; German Bronze Age site similar to Stonehenge; and London prehistory pushed back by 3000 years.
04.06.2020 Audio News for March 29th through April 4th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient Florida fish ponds; treasure trove in Cretan cave; floating palaces of Roman Emperor Caligula; and ritual site of Mesopotamian war god.
03.30.2020 Audio News for March 22nd through the 28th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Obsidian points in Ohio rituals; plants as Ice Age staples; world’s earliest epidemic in China; and early spread of Mesoamerican ball game.
03.23.2020 Audio News for March 15th through the 21st, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Mammoth bone circle in Russia; Ponce de Leon not first European in Florida; Ice Age stone carvings in Indonesia; and pyramid-shaped Bangladeshi stupa.
03.16.2020 Audio News for March 8th through the 14th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Studying and protecting Florida sites endangered by rising seas; first olive domestication in Israel 7000 years ago; ostrich eggshell beads 33,000 years old in southern Africa; and two distinct cave art traditions co-existed ...
03.09.2020 Audio News for March 1st through the 7th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: 3D imaging of Hadrian’s Wall graffiti; huge Medieval ivory workshop in Pakistan; bear bones in ancient Mississippi; and techniques for assessing horse domestication.
03.02.2020 Audio News for February 23rd through the 29th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Channel Islands shipwreck survey; Harappan menu stirs controversy; relocation of Inca populations by Spanish; and ancient Anatolian sword in Venice monastery.
02.24.2020 Audio News for February 16th through the 22nd, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: New finds from submerged Franklin Expedition ship; sun god revealed within Egyptian coffin at Harvard; dam collapse possibly made Angkor Wat the Khmer capital; and stunning Iron Age tomb in Italy.
02.17.2020 Audio News for February 9th through the 15th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Bottled tears in Turkish museum; Mesa Verde petroglyphs mark soltices; very old Australian folk tale; and search for lost Indian city.
02.10.2020 Audio News for February 2nd through the 8th, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Wasp nests date Aboriginal rock art; historical African-American community in Central Park; curse tablets from Athens well; and diverse origins of earliest pottery.
02.03.2020 Audio News from Archaeologica, January 26th through February 1st, 2020 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Medieval mansion site in London; Cahokia area thrived after city abandoned; two waves of European Neanderthals in Siberia; and Assyrian rock reliefs in northern Iraq.

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