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January 22, 2024Audio News for January 14th through the 20th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Gum disease, tooth decay common among Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
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Like-new 14th century gauntlet discovered in Switzerland
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New study reveals origins of western Europeans
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Woolly mammoths shared habitat with earliest human settlements in Alaska
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January 15, 2024Audio News for January 7th through the 13th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
First Roman tombs dug directly into rock found in Egypt
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Colossal Bronze Age rampart discovered around one of Arabia's longest oases
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Deep in Amazon rainforest, lasers reveal oldest cities yet
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Grave of tall man with long sword may shed light on medieval union of Nordic countries
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January 08, 2024Audio News for December 31st, 2023, through January 6, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Cerne Giant was probably Hercules, and rallied early Medieval farmers fighting off Viking invaders
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New palace found in central China, dating to fabled Xia Dynasty
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Archaeologists at Tulum find Maya burial cave
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Bronze buckles from central Europe may show beliefs of lost pagan cult
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January 01, 2024Audio News for December 24th through the 30th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study shows how quickly Patagonian natives adopted the horse
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Europe’s first mega-sites thrived on a mostly vegetarian diet
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Now underwater, northwest Australia’s continental shelf once was settled
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Pompeii dig finds group of terracotta figurines honoring the cult goddess Cybele
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December 25, 2023Audio News for December 17th through the 23rd, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Discovery of cat and human-like figures on geoglyphs in Peru
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New proof that Viking dentistry was remarkably advanced
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Dental anthropologists connect all Native Americans to one East Asian migration
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Cutting edge forensics show how nomadic man in ancient Britain ended up far from home
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December 18, 2023Audio News for December 10th through the 16th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Mongolia may be home to modern horse-riding equipment
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Excavation of Pompeiian bakery shows the grim life of enslaved people
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New Mesa Verde area rock art finds show complex cosmology and motifs
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Curse invoking Beelzebub found in medieval German latrine
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December 11, 2023Audio News for December 3rd through the 9th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Neolithic builders used simple tools, complex planning to build the Menga Dolmen
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DNA research shows Slavic migration into the Balkans began in late Roman times
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In Siberia, world's oldest fortress challenges view of how societies developed
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Ruins of first rural Wari Empire complex unearthed in Peru
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December 04, 2023Audio News for November 26th through December 2nd, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Bone biographies” tell tales of medieval England’s common folk
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New insights into 9,000 year-old shaman and infant burial
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New study suggests Maya purified water with plants
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Ancient carved trees shine light on Wiradjuri culture
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November 27, 2023Audio News for November 19th through the 25th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
2,000 clay stamps found in ancient Roman municipal archive building
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Ancient Egyptian baboon DNA reveals location of fabled port city of Punt
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Ancient DNA reveals Uto-Aztecan languages spread to California 1,000 years earlier than thought
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Archaeologists identify civilization-saving technology of ancient Sumerians
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November 20, 2023Audio News for November 12th through the 18th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Melting ice in British Columbia reveals many sites with bone, wood and obsidian tools
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New site in southwest Norway may be earliest evidence of regional agriculture
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Lion mosaic found above theater in northwestern Turkey, used by Roman cult
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Study of Aboriginal agriculture aims to help Australia become more sustainable
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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…