The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica
Summary: 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 News is compiled from Archaeologica’s daily news updates. The musical interludes are original compositions by Anthony Kennedy. The Audio News from Archaeologica is compiled from Archaeologica.org's daily news updates.
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Podcasts:
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age pyramid in Kazakhstan; early arrival of African cattle in the Americas; Europe’s oldest stilt village; and jawbone in China suggests unknown human lineage.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Long-hidden features under Exeter Cathedral; Teotihuacan-period village; first English slave fort in Africa; and Switzerland arrowhead made from Estonian meteorite.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 300,000-year-old throwing stick in Germany; Iron Age burial in Britain was female; prehistoric sites help save Louisiana coastline; and oldest curry.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ben Franklin’s paper money; underground passages of the Zapotecs; gold coins hidden in medieval German monastery; and Neolithic polishing stone in England.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Mosaics at Galilee synagogue; remarkably early human presence in South American cave; Viking grave goods in southern Norway; and genetic data from 2 million year old African hominin.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Huge hand-axes in England; early fiber technology in the Phillipines; large and aligned Mesolithic pits in England; and 18,000-year-old date for Oregon rockshelter.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pizza-like image in Pompeii; agriculture and death rates in North America; more about seventh-century Anglo-Saxon girl; and cannibalism among early human ancestors in Kenya.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Andean droughts and violence; muscular modeling of “Lucy”; warfare in European Neolithic; and Bronze Age sword in Bavaria.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Blood residues point to North American megafauna; early modern humans in Laotian cave; small-brained hominins in South African burials; and new Bronze Age burial mounds near Stonehenge.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rare finds from poorly known culture in Iran; 12,000-year-old bird bone flutes in Israel; ritual offerings at Uxmal; and malaria in Medici family.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Armenian bakery’s 3,000-years-old wheat flour; Biblical Judean rulers -- even more G.I. issues than previously known; Australian boat rock art reveals link with Indonesian culture; and ancient flintknappers risked severe injury.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: World’s oldest blueprints; First battle site, French and Indian War; Mid-Pleistocene controlled cooking fires; and Brittany multi-religion Roman temple.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Megalithic tomb in Spain; Maya ballgame scoreboard; Germany’s oldest human footprints; and Roman sites in Scotland.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA evidence for New World migrations from China; teenage colonist in Maryland; Indus Civilization decline by drought; and Neolithic road beneath Adriatic Sea.
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.
