The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

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February 16Audio News for February 8th through the 14th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Oregon cave artifacts point to climate adaptation strategies
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Earliest Egyptian bow drill identified in legacy museum collection
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Archaeologists document early open ocean travel in the High Arctic
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Ancient plant ranges reshape understanding of early farming
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February 09Audio News February 1st through the 7th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Rare elephant bone in Spain offers physical trace of Hannibals war elephants
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Archaeologists uncover early mammoth ivory workshop in Alaska
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Researchers link early human innovation to movement and social connection
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Newly uncovered Avar cemetery offers rare view of early medieval Hungary
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February 02Audio News January 25th through the 31st, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Researchers unearth oldest handheld tools made of wood
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Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca features symbolic owl carving
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Ancient Taş Tepeler pillars found in Adiyaman point to an expansive Neolithic culture
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Advanced stone technology found in China poses new questions about early East Asians
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January 27Audio News for July 19th through the 25th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Flight missing for 74 years is finally located near Puerto Rico
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Modern archaeological tools revise manner of death for sacrificed Inca children
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Basque Country cave paintings were designed with syntactic structure
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Ash study reveals 25,000 years of continuous use of cave for rituals by Aboriginal group
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January 26Audio News for January 18th through the 24th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Indonesian island of Sulawesi holds world’s oldest cave art almost 70,000 years old
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Oldest elephant-bone tool in Europe shows early human technological ability
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Ancient remains extend timeline of bacteria related to syphilis by more than 3,000 years
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Ancient mass burial in Jordan shows how massive plague reveals migration patterns
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January 20Audio News for July 12th through the 18th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ancient Polynesian seafarers resumed migration because of major drought
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New study of mummies finds ancient Egyptian princesses wielded weapons
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Precolonial Brazilian communities used variety of subsistence strategies, including reliance on maize
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New study reexamines importance of Roman female farm managers
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January 19Audio News for January 11th through the 17th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Artifacts from Phrygian tomb suggest possible link to King Midas
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Medieval Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered in Suffolk, England
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Medieval burials at Menga dolmen suggest symbolic significance of monument over 1000 years after construction
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New underwater remains add to record of El Huarco Archaeological Complex
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January 13Audio News for July 5th through the 11th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Cave site in Turkey reveals cultural similarities between Neanderthals and early modern humans
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100,000-year-old facial wound may be earliest known incident of sharp-force violence
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Lost Pima Himeri village located alongside 17th-century Jesuit mission
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New computational study estimates the majority of medieval chivalric literature has been lost
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January 12Audio News for January 4th, 2025, through the 10th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Long-hidden ancient landscape documented in Ecuadorian rainforest
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Ancient poisoned arrowheads reveal complex hunting strategies in early humans
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Trove of ancient administrative artifacts found in Iran
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Rare Iron Age instrument unearthed during pre-construction excavation in England
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January 05Audio News for December 28th, 2025, through January 3rd, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Lost Spanish mission site located in southeastern Texas
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Early silver penny sheds light on Scotland’s first coinage
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Prehistoric hillfort shows signs of a very large settlement in eastern Ireland
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Ancient cremation of a woman puzzles archaeologists in Malawi
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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…