News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early Tarim Basis farmers were indigenous; major Sumatran site being plundered; resident population at Chaco Canyon; and new species nomenclature proposed for early humans.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA and the spread of domesticated horses; gold shunned in the Caucasus; cosmic radiation helps date Viking site in Newfoundland; and foragers in Madagascar altered the landscape.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Tooth analysis rules out Japan as Native American homeland; medieval knowledge of North America in Italy; Azorean lake sediments indicate early human settlement; and 6-million-year-old hominin footprints in Crete.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Lost script of Easter Island; Siberian dogs show wide DNA connections; Aztec obsidian mirror used in court of Queen Elizabeth I; and the first Black church in Williamsburg.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Micronesian islanders adapt; Tikal neighborhood with Teotihuancan influence; Etruscan genetics; and Vinland Map forgery.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Meteor impact as the origin of Sodom story; surprisingly old human footprints in New Mexico; quick Maya recovery from volcanic blast in El Salvador; and worry

about Afghan sites following Taliban return.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age coffin’s new secrets; Tibetan handprints, footprints – earliest art?; Pleistocene tools reveal clothing tech; and cataloging at-risk U.S. Afro-American graves.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Acropolis reno may erase centuries of history; Korea’s Moon Castle evinces human sacrifice; Chinese artifacts show ancient peoples’ creativity; and new insight into Ancient Pueblo turkey-keeping.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Sophisticated Neanderthal bone tools in Italy; first DNA from ancient human lineage in Indonesia; Poverty Point earthworks show surpising hunter-gatherer capabilities; and complexities of Viking culture.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First Clovis site in Michigan; violence among early

farmers in Chile’s Atacama Desert; Aztec pictographs document earthquakes; and Herculaneum bones show different diets for males and females.