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: Wooden mask from Osaka; ancient Parisian cemetery; early Puerto Rico burials; and Spanish Pleistocene bone tool and early clothing.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman Civil War Coins Found in Tuscany; DNA analysis reveals genetic diversity and dynastic politics of ancient empire; Medieval Norse Greenland settlers imported North American timber; and Blackbeard’s Coal Mystery -- not so much.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age psychedelics use; Christian frescoes found at medieval African site; ancient Levant humans ambushed wild cows; and climatic deterioration may have driven decline.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New Miami finds set preservation against development; Roman moon goddess jewelry in Judea burial; Severed hands found in Egyptian palace pits; and South African cave suggests ancients there ate giant land snails.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Swahili genetics; 6000-year-old fishhook in Israel; early horses in Indigenous America; and Roman artifacts in Brittany trash dump.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient bloodletting tools in Sudan; Zodiac reliefs in Egyptian temple; genomic analysis of Beethoven hair; and serpent sculpture at Chichén Itzá.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early steel in Iberia; Cypriot village as Bronze Age trading hub; Colchester Vase; and Wari pottery.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age ice skates in western China; evidence of horse-riding 5000 years ago; lake pollution by early Maya city; and Norse god Odin in early runic inscription.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Chinese city of Bicun; longevity of Mesoamerican cities; Iberia as Ice-Age refugium; and evidence of prehistoric TB in Ecuador.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Live artillery round at Gettysburg; ancient Vietnamese musical instrument; cattle-horn container in South Africa; and Bronze Age cranial surgery in Israel.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldowan tools in Kenya; Mexican burial mounds; early Medieval fortress in Spain; and lavish spices in Danish royal shipwreck.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Drought as cause for Hittite Empire collapse; climate windows for Beringia coastal migration; oldest North American bone spear point; and gold wires connected teeth of French female aristocrat.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rosetta Stone for ancient Amorite; large pits in Great Zimbabwe; Neanderthal elephant hunting; and underground aqueduct in Naples.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early silver currency in Southern Levant; early Mesolithic human remains in northern England; huge moat under Old Jerusalem; and elite tombs in southwest Mexico.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age well in Bavaria; 144 slave graves in South Carolina; Hunnic tomb in Romania; European Neolithic skeletons show frequent violence.
