The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

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.

Audio News for May 19th through the 25th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Found: a forgotten, fiery moment in Hannibal's Iron Age war (details)(details)(details) Chile’s Tagua Tagua Lake served as the hunting ground for early elephants (details)(details)(details) Vikings ship horses up to 900 miles across Baltic Sea (details)(details) Greek Marines prove Bronze Age body armor wasn't just for show (details)(details)(details)

05-27
12:00

Audio News for May 12th through the 18th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Thriving ancient Roman town lasted longer than believed (details) Genomes of modern viruses found in Neanderthal bones (details) Lake District stone circle may be 700 years older than Stonehenge (details) Pair buried in embrace on a horse weren't lovers, but related women (details)

05-20
13:17

Audio News for May 5th through the 11th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman shipwreck held fish sauce (details)(details) New linguistic model shows four waves of migration into the Americas (details)(details) Microarchaeology provides new precision for early history of Jerusalem (details)(details) English study shows leprosy could come from Medieval red squirrels (details)(details)

05-13
13:31

Audio News for April 28th through May 4th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Pueblo communicated through conch-shell trumpets (details) Ritual and medicinal plant DNA preserved under ancient Maya ball court (details)(details) Neanderthal woman’s face is reconstructed (details) Paleolithic North African hunter-gatherers ate plant-based diet (details)(details)

05-06
12:37

Audio News for April 21st through the 27th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA analysis illuminates social practices of an ancient Eurasian warrior empire (details)(details)(details) Preserved Pre-Revolutionary War cherries unearthed at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (details)(details) Rare structures may have guided Neolithic farmers to the afterlife (details)(details) Interdisciplinary research team to investigate whether Stonehenge was designed for lunar alignment (details)(details)

04-29
12:13

Audio News for April 14th through the 20th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 18th Century cleft palate prosthesis found in mouth of Polish crypt skeleton (details)(details)(details) Excavations off Great Barrier Reef prove early Aboriginal Australians crafted pottery (details)(details) Analysis of pyramid damage suggests Teotihuacan suffered through five damaging earthquakes (details)(details) Genomic study proves Blackfoot Confederacy historical rights with lineage tracing to Late Pleistocene (details)(details)

04-22
12:17

Audio News for April 7th through the 13th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly discovered Pompeii paintings tell of the Trojan War (details) New research in Tonga reveals high population living in low-density city system (details) Virginia dig at historic log house documents Black American life after Civil War (details) 1800-year-old clay seal reveals name of Sassanid city (details)

04-15
13:33

Audio News for March 31st through April 6th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Air Force unit in New Mexico uncovers prehistoric site (details) Paleolithic wooden tools from Germany show diverse woodworking techniques (details) (details) Eggshells from Central Asian sites show the rapid spread of domesticated chickens (details) (details) Sand sculpture on South African coast suggests origin of representational art (details) (details)

04-08
14:41

Audio News for March 24th through the 30th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Horse trading in Medieval Europe was crucial part of everyday life (details)(details) Iranian Plateau served as hub for early human migration (details)(details) Ancient Peru experienced violence and crisis during political upheaval (details) Island time capsule in northwestern Australia (details)(details)

04-01
12:35

Audio News for March 17th through the 23rd, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Aztec books depicting life before the Spanish now publicly owned (details) Food study points to interactions between South Americans and Polynesians (details) Preserved remains of English Bronze Age village reveal details of daily life (details) Sophisticated canoes shine light on technical skills in the Neolithic Mediterranean (details) (details)

03-25
13:39

Audio News for March 10th through the 16th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 3,300-year-old clay tablet describes cataclysmic invasion of four Hittite Empire cities (details)(details) Largest ever South Asian whole-genome analysis points to single major migration to India from Africa 50,000 years ago (details)(details) Mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg could be largest ever in Europe (details)(details)(details) Oldest known bead in the Western Hemisphere discovered in Wyoming (details)(details)

03-18
12:59

Audio News for March 3rd through the 9th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 14 wrecked ships in Bahamas may offer insight to life in the slave trade (details) 7,000-year-old burial cave in Spain includes Neanderthal-era goat bones (details) Oldest stone tools in Europe hint strongly at east-to-west migration (details) Medieval Spanish astrolabe has both Islamic and Hebrew inscriptions (details)

03-11
16:04

Audio News for February 25th through March 2nd, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Medieval French abbey reveals historical structure with over 1,000 burials (details) Obsidian blade from Texas suggests a link to Coronado’s expedition (details)(details) Genetic evidence shows that French Mesolithic hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding (details)(details) Temple excavation indicates Philistine ritual use of plants (details)

03-04
15:05

Audio News for February 18th through the 24th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient Danish gold ring suggests ties to important kingdom (details) Neanderthal tool design reveals higher-level thinking (details)(details) Historic armor reveals aspects of early colonial America (details) Local origins of the mysterious multicultural mummies in far western China (details)(details)

02-26
12:03

Audio News for February 11th through the 17th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Mesolithic megastructure in the Baltic Sea offers insight into early hunter-gatherers (details)(details) Patagonian rock art served as a generational communication tool (details)(details) Stone Age skeleton study reveals life story (details)(details)(details) New radiocarbon dating suggests independence of the Rongorongo script (details)(details)

02-19
10:03

Audio News for February 4th through the 10th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Spanish Bronze Age gold hoard contains meteorite metal (details)(details) Archaeologists discover Roman era bone container filled with poisonous seeds (details)(details) Transition from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to farmers was a violent affair (details)(details)(details) Fascinating but challenging Amazon rainforest caves reveal their secrets (details)(details)

02-12
10:43

Audio News for January 28th through February 3rd, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: German cave shows modern humans replaced Neanderthals locally by 45,000 years ago (details)(details) Footprints on a Moroccan beach are oldest human trackway from the region (details) Salvage dig in looted Maya tomb uncovers jade mosaic mask (details) Cold, dry years may have made plagues worse during the Roman Empire (details)

02-05
14:40

Audio News for January 21st through the 27th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeomagnetic dating pinpoints construction of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate (details) Amateur archaeologists unearth a Roman dodecahedron in central England (details) Peruvian sites show even early hunters lived mostly on plant foods (details) New analysis confirms which relatives of Alexander the Great occupy the royal tombs of Macedonia (details)

01-29
12:23

Audio News for January 14th through the 20th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Gum disease, tooth decay common among Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (details) Like-new 14th century gauntlet discovered in Switzerland (details) New study reveals origins of western Europeans (details) Woolly mammoths shared habitat with earliest human settlements in Alaska (details)

01-22
13:05

Audio News for January 7th through the 13th, 2024

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: First Roman tombs dug directly into rock found in Egypt (details) Colossal Bronze Age rampart discovered around one of Arabia's longest oases (details) (details) Deep in Amazon rainforest, lasers reveal oldest cities yet (details) (details) (details) Grave of tall man with long sword may shed light on medieval union of Nordic countries (details) (details)

01-15
12:04

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Thanks for a very interesting and intriguing episode. (^^,)

09-08 Reply

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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

09-23 Reply

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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.

09-23 Reply

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