News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Oldest evidence of West Africa honey use; late dates for Middle Stone Age in Senegal; Pacific Coast Native Americans ate more than salmon; and Caribbean cannibalism debunked.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Aztec written language; early hominids as hypercarnivores; cave artists risked hypoxia; and no evidence of Cahokia deforestation.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Yemeni coins in New England; miracles and sixth-century floods in italy; colorful Roman marble in Bulgaria; and mummified parrots and macaws in the Atacama Desert.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Wealth gaps in Maya societies; new understandings of ancient Texas murals; Donner Party rejected Native help with violence; and African-American remains in US museums.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Revolutionary War battlefield in South Carolina; biblical scroll fragments from West Bank cave; new computer recreation of the Antikythera Mechanism; and

Bronze Age queen burial in Spain.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Cambodian iron furnace documents shifts in Earth’s magnetic field; water efficiency in early hominids; factors influencing women as hunters; and cave footprints in Spain.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Elaborate ceremonial carriage near Pompeii; Alaskan sediment cores may signal early human arrival in North America; dental x-ray scanner reads unopened Renassance letter; and scientists surveyed about Neanderthal demise.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Study of Florida burial mounds; 18th century school for Black children in Williamsburg; Himalayan lake with 300 skeletons; and early Medieval Celtic memorial stones.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Oldest Egyptian brewery; Australian grinding stone with moth remains; global study about good governance; and Silk Road trade hindered by ancient drought.

News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Statuettes at ancient theater in Turkey; oldest known Chinese face cream; Venetian beads in pre-contact northern Alaska sites; and 18000-year-old wind instrument from French cave.