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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 December 1st...

12.09.2019

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Frozen Pleistocene puppy; hundreds of cuneiform tablets in Iraq; survey of early coast sites in Puerto Rico; and Iron Age warrior grave in Yorkshire.

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12.09.2019 Audio News for December 1st through the 7th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Frozen Pleistocene puppy; hundreds of cuneiform tablets in Iraq; survey of early coast sites in Puerto Rico; and Iron Age warrior grave in Yorkshire.
12.02.2019 Audio News for November 24th through the 30th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Rediscovered African-American cemetery in Tampa, Florida; ostrich eggshell beads yield new insights; Neanderthall bad luck; and ancient Puerto Rican clamshells.
11.25.2019 Audio News for November 17th through the 23rd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Medieval synagogue in Bulgaria; helmets made from skulls in Ecuador; boat burial inside boat burial in Norway; and new Nazca Lines figures.
11.18.2019 Audio News for November 10th through the 16th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: LiDAR survey on Florida coast; US Navy submarine found after translation correction; climate change befell Neo-Assyrian Empire; and ibis mummies in Egypt reflect collection of wild birds.
11.11.2019 Audio News for November 3rd through the 9th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: DNA study of Rome; Indian Supreme court ruling; mammoth traps in Mexico; and new chronology of the Mongloian steppes.
11.04.2019 Audio News for October 27th through November 2nd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: LIDAR reveals new British ring cairn; moss reveals Ice Man’s path; Danger Cave, Utah, receives new honor; and Monte Verde may get older.
10.28.2019 Audio News for October 20th through the 26th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Sloan Canyon announces new visitor center; Lost street built by Pontius Pilate rediscovered; Third-graders embrace archaeology in classroom project; and Date for early human use of fire narrowed down.
10.21.2019 Audio News from Archaeologica, October 13th through the 19th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Archaeologica founder passes away; virtual map reveals undiscovered Maya ritual sites; 3,000 year old Egyptian coffins contain well-preserved mummies; and Bronze Age cache reveals typical warrior attire.
10.14.2019 Audio News for October 6th through the 12th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Workshops in Valley of the Kings; monastery on Irish farmer’s land; Paleolithic marrow preservation in Israel; and Finland to return remains to American Southwest.
10.07.2019 Audio News for September 29th through October 5th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Big Bronze Age city in Israel; historic Houston neighborhood; and ancient extinctions inform modern ones; microliths in Sri Lanka cave.
09.30.2019 Audio News for September 22nd through the 28th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Florida sites going underwater; baby bottles in Bavaria; bronze jar with ancient sports fan in Bulgaria; and technology to limit bone destruction.
09.23.2019 Audio News for September 15th through the 21st, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Native American DNA reflects non-Native American migration; Neanderthal extinction and ear infections; Neolithic aquaculture in China; and Icelandic walrus extinction.
09.16.2019 Audio News for September 8th through 14th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Sixth century BC bronze statue discovered on St. Cyricus Island; buried “Lovers of Modena” were both males; 4.500-years old dagger discovered in Israeli burial cave; and Colorado highway project discovers Native American ruins.
09.09.2019 Audio News for September 1st through the 7th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: New research on Dead Sea Scrolls; Ynique burial linked to clan violence; Ancient Native American remains found in Arizona; and Denisovan finger bone reveals modern connections.
09.03.2019 Audio News for August 25th through the 31st, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Toppled monoliths in central France; desert skulls reflect Inca violence; Persian post office in Turkey; and underwater survey of Franklin ship in Canadian arctic.
08.26.2019 Audio News for August 18th through the 24th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient mural in coastal Peru; cranial deformation in Croatia; submerged Mesolithic boat-building site in UK; and Moabite altar inscription in Jordan.
08.19.2019 Audio News for August 11th through the 17th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Preserving and excavating the Alamo; inscriptions at Cyprus city-states; sorcerer’s box of charms at Pompeii; and Medieval and Viking era buildings in Iceland.
08.12.2019 Audio News for August 4th through the 10th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Total war in Maya Classic; Norse drinking hall in Orkney; council building in Egyptian city; and high-altitude site in Ethiopia.
08.05.2019 Audio News for July 28th through August 3rd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Temple sanctuary in Cyprus; engraved standing stones in Switzerland; Kazakhstan burial pair; and Bronze Age Scandinavian metal.
07.29.2019 Audio News for July 21st through the 27th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Deer in pre-contact Panamanian feasting; Egyptian images from Bronze Age city in Israel; early Ecuadorian pottery; and 500-year-old ship preserved in Baltic Sea.
07.22.2019 Audio News for July 14th through the 20th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Galilee church might connect to Saint Peter; longer Viking stay in Canada; Waterloo field hospital bones; and pottery suggests greased sleds for Stonehenge megaliths.
07.15.2019 Audio News for July 7th through the 13th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: 6000-year-old dart point in Saskatchewan; wine amphoras off Albanian coast; ancient Japanese ritual ornaments; and stone slab dedicated in Roman emperors in Bulgaria.
07.08.2019 Audio News for June 30th through July 6th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Viking burial ships in Sweden and Norway; Phoenician workshop for purple dye; early Chinese cranial deformation; and historical excavation in Houston.
07.01.2019 Audio News for June 23rd through the 29th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Cold War aerial photos in archaeology; new questions about Viking gender roles; Woodstock site under excavation; and new technique for analyzing burned bone.
06.24.2019 Audio News for June 16th through the 22nd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Non-native birds in the Nazca Lines, settlements beneath North Sea; heat-modified pigments in Altai Mountains tomb; amd Colonial time capsule in North Carolina.
06.17.2019 Audio News June 9th to June 15th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Charred ancient 'Cheerios'; Rome's dietary decline; Inca taxes?; and New Brunswick artifacts-find stops military monument build.
06.10.2019 Audio News for June 2nd through the 8th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient cathedral body in Germany; cataloguing the remains of D-Day; ancient Scottish well; the and last US slave ship identified.
06.03.2019 Audio News for May 26th through June 1st, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Sacred Utah site vandalized; beer from 5000-year-old Egyptian yeast; and “Forgotten Winchester” goes on exhibit.
05.27.2019 Audio News for May 19th through the 25th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Iron-Age bark shield from England; ancient Australian aquaculture site; marble head from Roman forum area; and Moche stew pot in Peru.
05.20.2019 Audio News for May 12th through the 18th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Urine residues as evidence of livestock in Neolithic Anatolia; molten metal in Roman road repair; shallow Yukon River reveals artifacts; and Russian farmer stumbles upon Sarmatian burial mound.
05.13.2019 Audio News for May 5th through the 11th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Secret chamber in Nero’s palace; cache of hallucinogenic drugs in the Andes; game board and horseshoes at Hadrian’s Wall; and quartz tools in southern Africa.
05.06.2019 Audio News for April 28th through May 4th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Burial chamber of Maya royalty; new details at Hagia Sophia; Egyptian Old Kingdom tombs; and ship anchor might be from Cortes.
04.30.2019 Audio News for April 22nd through the 27th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Mesoamerican sculptures with magnetic rock; venomous snake consumed in ancient Texas; complex architecture in Early Cycladic islands; and gruesome massacre in 17th century Alaska.
04.22.2019 Audio News for April 14th through the 20th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Huge Maya figurine factory; ancient Egyptian woman with papyrus-marked teeth; squatting girl in China’s oldest tomb; and the place of beer in Peru’s ancient Wari Empire.
04.15.2019 Audio News for April 7th through the 13th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Cherokee cave inscriptions translated; French children find Bell Beaker burial mound; Paleolithic cave art in Croatia; and Brazil Empire artifacts at Rio zoo.
04.08.2019 Audio News for March 31st through April 6th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Possible Aztec royal burial in Mexico City; whale bone as fuel in Iceland; names inscribed on First Temple Period objects in Jerusalem; and Trajan statue in Turkey.
04.01.2019 Audio News for March 24th through March 30th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Medieval toddler shoe in Switzerland; temple palace of Ramses II; Hispano-Muslim warlord sword digitized; and food court counter in Pompeii.
03.25.2019 Audio News for March 18th through March 23rd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Egyptian shipwreck validates Herodotus; search for Cortes ships; image of ugly good-luck deity in Jerusalem; and study on rise of big deities.
03.18.2019 Audio News for March 10th through March 16th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient board game rules in China; Spanish DNA study; 200-year-old pipe DNA from Maryland slave quarters; and Greek inscription at ancient Negev city
03.12.2019 Audio News for March 3rd through March 9th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Fast food for Neanderthals; Maya ritual cave rediscovered at Chichen Itza; world’s oldest tattooing kit; and Roman grafitti in England.
02.27.2019 Audio News for February 17th through the 23rd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Pottery analysis and Mississippian chiefdoms; Swedish Viking warrior was a woman; new techniques used on strange Corsican burials; new study: and bluestones at Stonehenge came from Wales.
02.18.2019 Audio News for February 10th through the 16th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Emperor’s mask in Bulgaria; megalith study identified France as origin; Narcissus painting in Pompeii villa; and planned airport threatens Peru sites.
02.11.2019 Audio News for February 3rd through the 9th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Genocide in the Americas brought on Little Ice Age; medieval sword beneath pavement in Denmark; new map of Beringia; and discovery of 40 mummies in Egypt.
02.04.2019 Audio News for January 27th through February 2nd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Roman woman in Slovenian cemetery; lost South African metropolis; Inuit cemetery on Alaskan Arctic coast; and Greco-Bactrian fortress.
02.04.2019 Audio News for February 24th through March 2nd, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Smuggled mummy parts at Cairo airport; facial recognition software for American Civil War photos; Greek inscription on wine press in Israel; and Puebloan cactus spine tattoo needle in Utah.
01.28.2019 Audio News for January 20th through the 26th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Iron Age warrior in northern Iran; Algerian pyramid tomb; dought-exposed early Norwegian settlement; and cache of quinoa seeds in Ontario.
01.21.2019 Audio News for January 13th through the 19th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Buddha statue head in India; US government shutdown endangers archaeological sites; defaced Egyptian stone carving evidences grudge; and world’s oldest periodic table of the elements.
01.14.2019 Audio News for January 6th through the 12th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Blue pigment in medieval woman’s teeth; seagrass as natural preservative; fractures in Bronze Age Mongolian bones; and ancient Maya steam room.
01.07.2019 Audio News for December 30th, 2018, through January 5th, 2019 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Catapult ball in Edinburgh; temple of the “Flayed Lord” in Mexico; Egyptian fortress port for war elephants; and oldest burial in lower Central America.
12.31.2018 Audio News for December 23rd through the 29th, 2018 News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Second child burial in Argentine cave; Quebec City wooden palisade; 2000-year old Jerusalem ring; and ice chamber in London.

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