The news of the week in audio. The Audio News from Archaeologica is compiled from Archaeologica.org's daily news updates.

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Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:03:19 GMT

Audio News for November 12th through the 18th, 2023
Posted on Monday November 20, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Tools revealed by melting British Columbia ice; southwest Norway site evidences early agriculture; lion mosaic in northwestern Turkey; and study of Australian Aboriginal agriculture.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Melting ice in British Columbia reveals many sites with bone, wood and obsidian tools (details)
• New site in southwest Norway may be earliest evidence of regional agriculture (details)
• Lion mosaic found above theater in northwestern Turkey, used by Roman cult (details)
• Study of Aboriginal agriculture aims to help Australia become more sustainable (details)

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:47:19 GMT

Audio News for November 19th through the 25th, 2023
Posted on Monday November 27, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 2000 clay stamps in Roman archive; Egyptian baboon DNA points to Punt; DNA evidences early migration to California; and advanced hydraulic structure in Sumeria.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• 2,000 clay stamps found in ancient Roman municipal archive building (details)
• Ancient Egyptian baboon DNA reveals location of fabled port city of Punt (details)
• Ancient DNA reveals Uto-Aztecan languages spread to California 1,000 years earlier than thought (details)
• Archaeologists identify civilization-saving technology of ancient Sumerians (details)

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:38:19 GMT

Audio News for November 5th through the 11th, 2023
Posted on Monday November 13, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Crimean DNA linked to early modern human in western Europe; headless skeletons in China; trove of coins off coast of Sardinia; and architecture connects Maya cities of Edzná and Chichén Itzá.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Ukrainian skull fragments produce genomic links to modern Europeans (details)
• Mass burial of headless skeletons chronicles violent end to Chinese Neolithic village (details)
• Stunning find of over 30,000 Fourth Century bronze coins hints at Mediterranean shipwreck (details)
• Maya architecture at Edzná and Chichén Itzá shows long distance links (details)

Mon, 6 Nov 2023 13:10:19 GMT

Audio News for October 29th through November 4th, 2023
Posted on Monday November 06, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Complex mixture in ancient Egyptian mug; true identity of El Tigre; shipwreck exemplifies China’s Maritime Silk Road; and Neolithic warfare in Spain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Evidence of human blood, bodily fluids, and psychotropic drugs found in ancient Egyptian mug (details) (details)
• Circular structure’s possible link to Maya serpent deity may be key to true identity of El Tigre (details)
• 700-year-old shipwreck reveals prosperity of China’s Maritime Silk Road (details)
• Evidence of ancient violence indicates earlier-than-thought warfare in Europe (details)

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:44:19 GMT

Audio News for October 22nd through the 28th, 2023
Posted on Monday October 30, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Chinese stone grenades; Mexican painted snake head; Acheulean hand axe in Medieval painting; and ancient hydraulic engineering in the Sahara.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Ming dynasty stone grenades found in Great Wall dig (details)
• Mexico releases statement about huge painted stone snake head (details)
• Odd rock in medieval French painting is million-year-old Acheulean hand axe (details)
• Technology helped Saharan kingdom tap an underground aquifer (details)

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:27:19 GMT

Audio News for October 15th through the 21st, 2023
Posted on Monday October 23, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Independent Copper Age settlements in Spain; Neanderthal fire in Portuguese cave; older dates for Puerto Rican cave art; and AI used to decipher carbonized Roman scrolls.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Thriving Copper Age settlements in Spain were independent and cooperative (details)
• Evidence of fire in Portuguese cave reveals Neanderthal intelligence (details)
• Carbon dating cave art reveals new starting point for Puerto Rican history (details)
• Computer student uses AI to decipher first word from carbonized Roman scrolls (details)

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:55:19 GMT

Audio News for October 8th through the 14th, 2023
Posted on Monday October 16, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Neanderthals hunted lions, wore their pelts; pre-Columbian Caribbean cultures’ plant-based diets; Rise in cranial trauma accompanied initial urbanizations; and Stone Age herders prized their grinding tools.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• First direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals (details)
• Mummified poop reveals pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean consumed a diversity of plants (details)
• Research finds dramatic increase in cranial traumas as the first cities were being built, suggesting a rise in violence (details)
• Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment (details)

Mon, 9 Oct 2023 15:43:19 GMT

Audio News for October 1st through the 7th, 2023
Posted on Monday October 09, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hidden Amazonian structures; effects of prehistoric cosmic airburst; lush land-route for ancient African diaspora; and evidence of funerary cannibalism.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Thousands of still-hidden structures indicate vast Pre-Columbian societies in Amazon Rain Forest (details)
• Prehistoric cosmic airburst forced transition from foraging to farming (details)
• Researchers discover that a lush land route channeled early humans out of Africa (details)(details)
• Evidence of human cannibalism as a cultural funerary practice (details)

Mon, 2 Oct 2023 12:41:19 GMT

Audio News for September 24th through the 30th, 2023
Posted on Monday October 02, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Chinese tomb inscription; Texas mummy constipation; unknown language in Hittite tablet; and intact arrow from thawing Norwegian glacier.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Chinese tomb inscription confirms Zhou Dynasty’s lethal power struggles (details)
• Analysis of Texas mummy reveals painful death, and diet of grasshoppers (details)
• New tablet from Hittite Empire capital records previously unknown early language (details)
• Arrow found under melting glacier in Norway still has arrowhead and feathers intact (details)

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:47:19 GMT

Audio News for September 17th through the 23rd, 2023
Posted on Monday September 25, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Black earth in the Amazon; sunken port city in Egypt; wood structure built by pre-humans; and Viking antler combs.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Black earth in the Amazon has captured carbon for centuries (details)
• Sunken port city in Egypt reveals new treasures (details)
• Early hominids built wood structures long before Homo sapiens (details)
• Antler comb analysis shows Viking trade routes reached the Arctic (details)

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:13:19 GMT

Audio News for September 10th through the 16th, 2023
Posted on Monday September 18, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Skeleton in Turkey confirms ancient earthquake; humans wearing footwear 150,000 years ago; Medieval artifacts point to magic rituals on the Hajj; and millenium-old hirsute mummy in Lima, Peru.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• 2,700 year-old skeleton found in Turkey may confirm Ayanis earthquake (details)
• Ancient footprints suggest humans wore shoes during the Middle Stone Age (details)
• 3th-century artifacts found on Darb al-Hajj route likely used in magic rituals (details)
• 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy with full head of hair found in Lima, Peru (details)

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:05:19 GMT

Audio News for September 3rd through the 9th, 2023
Posted on Monday September 11, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rare Chinese chime bells; diving bell off Florida coast; Roman swords in Dead Sea cave; and Israeli researcher proposes prey size affected technology advances.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Rare Chinese chime bells date to Spring and Autumn period (details)
• Underwater Florida find may be early form of diving bell (details)
• Four Roman swords found in Dead Sea cave (details)
• Loss of Pleistocene big game could have been trigger for better hunting tools (details)

Mon, 4 Sep 2023 14:02:19 GMT

Audio News for August 27th through September 2nd, 2023
Posted on Monday September 04, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Shanidar Cave flower burial debunked; ancient human population bottleneck; ancient Southern California wildfires; and Confederate skeletons at Civil War battlefield.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Bee pollen debunks famous Neanderthal flower burial (details)
• New genetic model suggests humans once risked extinction (details)
• Wildfires set by post-Pleistocene humans in southern California permanently altered the ecosystem (details)
• Skeletons unearthed at Civil War battlefield could give insight into soldiers’ lives (details)

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:51:19 GMT

Audio News for August 20th through the 26th, 2023
Posted on Monday August 28, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Proteins on ancient cauldrons; physical evidence of two Jerusalem destructions; drum-like dance floor in Peru; and DNA from 2900-year-old Assyrian brick.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Proteins on ancient cauldrons give first look at Bronze Age menu (details)
• Mount Zion discovery reveals evidence of two Jerusalem destructions (details) (details)
• Thunder worshipers did pre-Inca stomp on giant drum-like dance floor (details) (details)
• Breakthrough extraction of DNA from 2,900-year-old brick reveals plant time capsule (details) (details)

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:26:19 GMT

Audio News for August 13th through the 19th, 2023
Posted on Monday August 21, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early drainage system in China; Iceman Ötzi had dark skin; Medieval girl in England buried face down; and Nautilus shell beads in Indonesia.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• China's ancient water pipe networks show no evidence of centralized state authority (details)
• Genome study reveals that Iceman Ötzi had dark skin and male pattern baldness (details)
• Medieval girl buried face down, ankles possibly tied, to prevent return from the grave (details)
• Sea sequin bling links Indonesian islands' ancient communities (details)

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:21:19 GMT

Audio News for August 6th through the 12th, 2023
Posted on Monday August 14, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Bronze Age pyramid in Kazakhstan provides insight into Eurasian steppe civilizations (details)
• DNA indicates earlier arrival of African cattle in the Americas (details)
• Europe’s oldest stilt village discovered in Lake Orhid, Albania (details)
• 300,000-year-old teen jawbone points to unknown human lineage (details)

Mon, 7 Aug 2023 17:57:19 GMT

Audio News for July 30th through August 5th, 2023
Posted on Monday August 07, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Medieval features found under Exeter Cathedral in England (details)
• Mexico City dig uncovers village from the Teotihuacan period (details)
• Old Dutch fort in Ghana may hide traces of the first English slave fort in Africa (details)
• Bronze Age arrowhead from Swiss site made from meteorite that fell in Estonia (details)

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:15:19 GMT

Audio News for July 23rd through the 29th, 2023
Posted on Monday July 31, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• 300,000-year-old throwing stick reveals early human ingenuity (details) (details)
• Analysis of an Iron Age burial in Britain shows the warrior was a woman (details) (details)
• Indigenous cultural perspectives may help save Louisiana’s coastline (details)
• Researchers find evidence of oldest curry outside India (details) (details)

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:15:19 GMT

Audio News for July 23rd through the 29th, 2023
Posted on Monday July 31, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• 300,000-year-old throwing stick reveals early human ingenuity (details) (details)
• Analysis of an Iron Age burial in Britain shows the warrior was a woman (details) (details)
• Indigenous cultural perspectives may help save Louisiana’s coastline (details)
• Researchers find evidence of oldest curry outside India (details) (details)

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:09:19 GMT

Audio News for July 16th through the 22nd, 2023
Posted on Monday July 24, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Benjamin Franklin's innovative anti-counterfeiting tactics for early paper money (details)
• Vast labyrinth of ancient passages to the underworld revealed by cutting-edge imaging (details)
• Abandoned monastery ruins reveal gold coins hidden during attack (details)
• Neolithic polishing stone is second ever discovered in situ in England (details)

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:42:19 GMT

Audio News for July 9th through the 15th, 2023
Posted on Monday July 17, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Remarkable mosaic discoveries and synagogue reconstruction: unveiling ancient Jewish artifacts in Huqoq, Galilee (details)
• Uncovering ancient secrets: new evidence pushes back human arrival in South America (details)
• Unveiling a Viking aristocracy: remarkable discoveries in a southern Norwegian grave (details)
• Oldest genetic data from two-million-year-old African hominin revealed (details)

Mon, 3 Jul 2023 13:12:19 GMT

Audio News for June 25th through July 1st, 2023
Posted on Monday July 03, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Pizza precursor seen in Pompeiian painting (details)
• Intensification of agriculture linked to early deaths in pre-colonial North America (details)
• Girl in early Anglo-Saxon Christian burial came from central Europe (details)
• Kenyan fossil suggests cannibalism among hominin ancestors (details)

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:16:19 GMT

Audio News for July 2nd through the 8th, 2023
Posted on Monday July 10, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Huge Ice Age hand-axes found in England (details) (details)
• Innovative study finds early evidence of prehistoric plant technology (details)
• Surprisingly large, aligned, Mesolithic pits turn up in England (details)
• Dating of prehistoric teeth suggests Oregon site is among the oldest in North America (details)

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:14:19 GMT

Audio News for June 18th through the 24th, 2023
Posted on Monday June 26, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Andean research shows drought cycles led to violence (details)
• Muscular modeling of “Lucy” fossil shows she could walk upright with ease (details)
• Models of European Neolithic show cycles of warfare causing population collapse (details)
• Bronze Age sword found in Bavaria (details)

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:48:19 GMT

Audio News for June 11th through the 17th, 2023
Posted on Monday June 19, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Archaeologists use crime forensics to prove Paleo-Americans hunted megafauna (details)
• Laotian cave suggests migrations toward Australia 10,000 years earlier than thought (details)
• Small brain size didn't prevent early hominins from complex ideas like burying the dead (details)
• New Bronze Age burial mounds discovered ten miles from Stonehenge (details)

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:46:19 GMT

Audio News for June 4th through the 10th, 2023
Posted on Monday June 12, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Remnants of settlement belonging to little-known Dalma culture discovered in Iran (details)
• 12,000-year-old bird-bone flutes in Israel may have been used for hunting (details)
• Vessels that once contained ritual offerings discovered in ancient Maya city of Uxmal (details)
• New study finds deadly strain of malaria preserved in jarred organs of a scion of the famous Medicis (details)

Mon, 5 Jun 2023 09:17:19 GMT

Audio News for May 28th through June 3rd, 2023
Posted on Monday June 05, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Excavation reveals 3,000-year-old wheat flour in ancient Armenian bakery (details)
• New study finds biblical Judean elites had even more gastrointestinal assailants than previously known (details) (details)
• Australian rock art depicting distinctive boats reveals previously unknown link with Indonesian culture (details)
• Survey shows ancient craftsmen risked life and limb to craft stone tools (details) (details)

Mon, 29 May 2023 08:09:19 GMT

Audio News for May 21st through the 27th, 2023
Posted on Monday May 29, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Petroglyphs from Jordan and Saudi Arabia are world’s oldest scale blueprints (details)
• Pennsylvania dig explores first battle site in French and Indian War (details)
• Middle Pleistocene site in Spain reveals evidence for controlled cooking fires (details)
• Roman temple site in Brittany shows worship of both Celtic and Roman gods (details)

Mon, 22 May 2023 12:34:19 GMT

Audio News for May 14th through the 20th, 2023
Posted on Monday May 22, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Megalith tomb in Spain uses rippled rock to reflect summer solstice light (details)
• Scoreboard for Maya ballgame found with late ninth-century hieroglyphics (details)
• Germany's oldest human footprints found in lakeshore silt (details)
• First large-scale survey of early Roman sites in Scotland shows intensive conquest efforts (details)

Mon, 15 May 2023 15:37:19 GMT

Audio News for May 7th through the 13th, 2023.
Posted on Monday May 15, 2023

Author : Archaeological Legacy Institute

Summary : 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:

• Mitochondrial DNA analysis suggests early Asian migrations to the Americas and Japan (details)
• 400-year-old-skeleton unearthed in Maryland believed to be discarded remains of teenaged indentured servant (details)
• Decline of the Indus Civilization megacities likely due to long periods of drought (details)
• Preserved 7,000-year-old road discovered beneath the Adriatic Sea (details) (details)