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: Maya salt factory in Belize; Canadian bison uncover petroglyphs; Seleucid fortress in Israel; and analysis of Justinianic Plague.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Wooly mammoth extinction; agriculture in Maya kingdoms; ancient mercury poisoning; and volcanic eruptions and Chinese dynastic collapses.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Canada’s oldest English coin; support for Transeurasian languages proposal; slave room at Pompeii; and wooden bird once owned by Anne Boleyn.
News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First child skull of Homo naledi; submerged Roman villas; first complete Maya canoe; and Native Americans object to plans for Boston harbor island.
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.
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Tree rings evidence warming climate; Ancestral Puebloan disruptions; oldest cave art threatened by climate change; and team studies climate change archaeology.
