The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

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The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica episodes

July 03, 2023Audio News for June 25th through July 1st, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Pizza precursor seen in Pompeiian painting
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Intensification of agriculture linked to early deaths in pre-colonial North America
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Girl in early Anglo-Saxon Christian burial came from central Europe
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Kenyan fossil suggests cannibalism among hominin ancestors
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June 26, 2023Audio News for June 18th through the 24th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Andean research shows drought cycles led to violence
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Muscular modeling of “Lucy” fossil shows she could walk upright with ease
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Models of European Neolithic show cycles of warfare causing population collapse
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Bronze Age sword found in Bavaria
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14 min
June 19, 2023Audio News for June 11th through the 17th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists use crime forensics to prove Paleo-Americans hunted megafauna
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Laotian cave suggests migrations toward Australia 10,000 years earlier than thought
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Small brain size didn't prevent early hominins from complex ideas like burying the dead
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New Bronze Age burial mounds discovered ten miles from Stonehenge
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June 12, 2023Audio News for June 4th through the 10th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Remnants of settlement belonging to little-known Dalma culture discovered in Iran
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12,000-year-old bird-bone flutes in Israel may have been used for hunting
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Vessels that once contained ritual offerings discovered in ancient Maya city of Uxmal
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New study finds deadly strain of malaria preserved in jarred organs of a scion of the famous Medicis
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June 05, 2023Audio News for May 28th through June 3rd, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Excavation reveals 3,000-year-old wheat flour in ancient Armenian bakery
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New study finds biblical Judean elites had even more gastrointestinal assailants than previously known
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Australian rock art depicting distinctive boats reveals previously unknown link with Indonesian culture
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Survey shows ancient craftsmen risked life and limb to craft stone tools
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May 29, 2023Audio News for May 21st through the 27th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Petroglyphs from Jordan and Saudi Arabia are world’s oldest scale blueprints
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Pennsylvania dig explores first battle site in French and Indian War
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Middle Pleistocene site in Spain reveals evidence for controlled cooking fires
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Roman temple site in Brittany shows worship of both Celtic and Roman gods
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May 22, 2023Audio News for May 14th through the 20th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Megalith tomb in Spain uses rippled rock to reflect summer solstice light
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Scoreboard for Maya ballgame found with late ninth-century hieroglyphics
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Germany's oldest human footprints found in lakeshore silt
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First large-scale survey of early Roman sites in Scotland shows intensive conquest efforts
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13 min
May 15, 2023Audio News for May 7th through the 13th, 2023.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Mitochondrial DNA analysis suggests early Asian migrations to the Americas and Japan
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400-year-old-skeleton unearthed in Maryland believed to be discarded remains of teenaged indentured servant
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Decline of the Indus Civilization megacities likely due to long periods of drought
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Preserved 7,000-year-old road discovered beneath the Adriatic Sea
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May 08, 2023 Audio News for April 30th through May 6th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Buddha in Egypt; submerged cemetery in Florida; AI model to translate cuneiform; and 150,000-year-old Senegalese site.
12 min
May 01, 2023 Audio News for April 23rd through the 29th, 2023
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wooden mask from Osaka; ancient Parisian cemetery; early Puerto Rico burials; and Spanish Pleistocene bone tool and early clothing.
16 min

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…