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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 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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Roman shipwreck held fish sauce
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New linguistic model shows four waves of migration into the Americas
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Microarchaeology provides new precision for early history of Jerusalem
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English study shows leprosy could come from Medieval red squirrels
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Ancient Pueblo communicated through conch-shell trumpets
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Ritual and medicinal plant DNA preserved under ancient Maya ball court
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Neanderthal woman’s face is reconstructed
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Paleolithic North African hunter-gatherers ate plant-based diet
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DNA analysis illuminates social practices of an ancient Eurasian warrior empire
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Preserved Pre-Revolutionary War cherries unearthed at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
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Rare structures may have guided Neolithic farmers to the afterlife
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Interdisciplinary research team to investigate whether Stonehenge was designed for lunar alignment
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18th Century cleft palate prosthesis found in mouth of Polish crypt skeleton
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Excavations off Great Barrier Reef prove early Aboriginal Australians crafted pottery
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Analysis of pyramid damage suggests Teotihuacan suffered through five damaging earthquakes
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Genomic study proves Blackfoot Confederacy historical rights with lineage tracing to Late Pleistocene
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Newly discovered Pompeii paintings tell of the Trojan War
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New research in Tonga reveals high population living in low-density city system
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Virginia dig at historic log house documents Black American life after Civil War
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1800-year-old clay seal reveals name of Sassanid city
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Air Force unit in New Mexico uncovers prehistoric site
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Paleolithic wooden tools from Germany show diverse woodworking techniques
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Eggshells from Central Asian sites show the rapid spread of domesticated chickens
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Sand sculpture on South African coast suggests origin of representational art
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Horse trading in Medieval Europe was crucial part of everyday life
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Iranian Plateau served as hub for early human migration
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Ancient Peru experienced violence and crisis during political upheaval
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Island time capsule in northwestern Australia
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Aztec books depicting life before the Spanish now publicly owned
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Food study points to interactions between South Americans and Polynesians
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Preserved remains of English Bronze Age village reveal details of daily life
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Sophisticated canoes shine light on technical skills in the Neolithic Mediterranean
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3,300-year-old clay tablet describes cataclysmic invasion of four Hittite Empire cities
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Largest ever South Asian whole-genome analysis points to single major migration to India from Africa 50,000 years ago
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Mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg could be largest ever in Europe
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Oldest known bead in the Western Hemisphere discovered in Wyoming
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14 wrecked ships in Bahamas may offer insight to life in the slave trade
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7,000-year-old burial cave in Spain includes Neanderthal-era goat bones
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Oldest stone tools in Europe hint strongly at east-to-west migration
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Medieval Spanish astrolabe has both Islamic and Hebrew inscriptions
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Medieval French abbey reveals historical structure with over 1,000 burials
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Obsidian blade from Texas suggests a link to Coronado’s expedition
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Genetic evidence shows that French Mesolithic hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding
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Temple excavation indicates Philistine ritual use of plants
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Ancient Danish gold ring suggests ties to important kingdom
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Neanderthal tool design reveals higher-level thinking
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Historic armor reveals aspects of early colonial America
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Local origins of the mysterious multicultural mummies in far western China
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Mesolithic megastructure in the Baltic Sea offers insight into early hunter-gatherers
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Patagonian rock art served as a generational communication tool
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Stone Age skeleton study reveals life story
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New radiocarbon dating suggests independence of the Rongorongo script
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Spanish Bronze Age gold hoard contains meteorite metal
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Archaeologists discover Roman era bone container filled with poisonous seeds
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Transition from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to farmers was a violent affair
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Fascinating but challenging Amazon rainforest caves reveal their secrets
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German cave shows modern humans replaced Neanderthals locally by 45,000 years ago
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Footprints on a Moroccan beach are oldest human trackway from the region
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Salvage dig in looted Maya tomb uncovers jade mosaic mask
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Cold, dry years may have made plagues worse during the Roman Empire
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Archaeomagnetic dating pinpoints construction of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate
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Amateur archaeologists unearth a Roman dodecahedron in central England
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Peruvian sites show even early hunters lived mostly on plant foods
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New analysis confirms which relatives of Alexander the Great occupy the royal tombs of Macedonia
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Gum disease, tooth decay common among Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
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Like-new 14th century gauntlet discovered in Switzerland
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New study reveals origins of western Europeans
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Woolly mammoths shared habitat with earliest human settlements in Alaska
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First Roman tombs dug directly into rock found in Egypt
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Colossal Bronze Age rampart discovered around one of Arabia's longest oases
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Deep in Amazon rainforest, lasers reveal oldest cities yet
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Grave of tall man with long sword may shed light on medieval union of Nordic countries
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Cerne Giant was probably Hercules, and rallied early Medieval farmers fighting off Viking invaders
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New palace found in central China, dating to fabled Xia Dynasty
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Archaeologists at Tulum find Maya burial cave
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Bronze buckles from central Europe may show beliefs of lost pagan cult
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New study shows how quickly Patagonian natives adopted the horse
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Europe’s first mega-sites thrived on a mostly vegetarian diet
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Now underwater, northwest Australia’s continental shelf once was settled
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Pompeii dig finds group of terracotta figurines honoring the cult goddess Cybele
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Thanks for a very interesting and intriguing episode. (^^,)
Can you make a episode on the new techniques with Ultraviolet Lasers to take photos of the soft tissues on fossils etc.? https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_9794520 ... https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/03/this-laser-reconstruction-of-a-four-winged-dinosaur-is-incredible/ Source link... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0125923
Thanks for a great collection of episodes. (^^,) Amazing that the seeds did grow in to Metusalem and Hannah. Ant thanks for all the web links in all your episodes, that's a great help to find more information.