The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

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April 01, 2024Audio News for March 24th through the 30th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Horse trading in Medieval Europe was crucial part of everyday life
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Iranian Plateau served as hub for early human migration
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Ancient Peru experienced violence and crisis during political upheaval
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Island time capsule in northwestern Australia
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March 25, 2024Audio News for March 17th through the 23rd, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Aztec books depicting life before the Spanish now publicly owned
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Food study points to interactions between South Americans and Polynesians
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Preserved remains of English Bronze Age village reveal details of daily life
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Sophisticated canoes shine light on technical skills in the Neolithic Mediterranean
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March 18, 2024Audio News for March 10th through the 16th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
3,300-year-old clay tablet describes cataclysmic invasion of four Hittite Empire cities
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Largest ever South Asian whole-genome analysis points to single major migration to India from Africa 50,000 years ago
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Mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg could be largest ever in Europe
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Oldest known bead in the Western Hemisphere discovered in Wyoming
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March 11, 2024Audio News for March 3rd through the 9th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
14 wrecked ships in Bahamas may offer insight to life in the slave trade
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7,000-year-old burial cave in Spain includes Neanderthal-era goat bones
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Oldest stone tools in Europe hint strongly at east-to-west migration
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Medieval Spanish astrolabe has both Islamic and Hebrew inscriptions
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March 04, 2024Audio News for February 25th through March 2nd, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Medieval French abbey reveals historical structure with over 1,000 burials
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Obsidian blade from Texas suggests a link to Coronado’s expedition
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Genetic evidence shows that French Mesolithic hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding
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Temple excavation indicates Philistine ritual use of plants
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February 26, 2024Audio News for February 18th through the 24th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ancient Danish gold ring suggests ties to important kingdom
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Neanderthal tool design reveals higher-level thinking
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Historic armor reveals aspects of early colonial America
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Local origins of the mysterious multicultural mummies in far western China
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February 19, 2024Audio News for February 11th through the 17th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Mesolithic megastructure in the Baltic Sea offers insight into early hunter-gatherers
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Patagonian rock art served as a generational communication tool
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Stone Age skeleton study reveals life story
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New radiocarbon dating suggests independence of the Rongorongo script
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February 12, 2024Audio News for February 4th through the 10th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Spanish Bronze Age gold hoard contains meteorite metal
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Archaeologists discover Roman era bone container filled with poisonous seeds
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Transition from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to farmers was a violent affair
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Fascinating but challenging Amazon rainforest caves reveal their secrets
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February 05, 2024Audio News for January 28th through February 3rd, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
German cave shows modern humans replaced Neanderthals locally by 45,000 years ago
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Footprints on a Moroccan beach are oldest human trackway from the region
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Salvage dig in looted Maya tomb uncovers jade mosaic mask
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Cold, dry years may have made plagues worse during the Roman Empire
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January 29, 2024Audio News for January 21st through the 27th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeomagnetic dating pinpoints construction of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate
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Amateur archaeologists unearth a Roman dodecahedron in central England
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Peruvian sites show even early hunters lived mostly on plant foods
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New analysis confirms which relatives of Alexander the Great occupy the royal tombs of Macedonia
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About The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

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The news of the week in audio, for many years compiled and written by the late Michelle Hilling of Archaeologica, is now the product of our dedicated volunteer team. Read by Laura Kennedy, the Audio…