The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Taraia Object Expedition approaches Nikumaroro Island on its way to investigating a visual anomaly that could be wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s lost Electra aircraft.

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Discovered wall marking ancient Paris; fragment of the world’s oldest peace treaty; burials at Göbeklitepe; and giant stone circles high in Argentina’s Andes.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient wall in Morocco; Mexican rock art depicts the underworld; much greater Indigenous Australian population estimate; and lead-based method to unlock Herculaneum scrolls.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Denisovan arm bone in China; oldest drug use; intact funeral platform at Chan Chan; and cave art reveals earliest known humans in Ireland.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pre-Hispanic date for Aztec manuscript; DNA suggests no mass migration to China; homeowner finds massive Danish Viking treasure; and giant glyphs in recent Australian rock art.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hidden Inka roads near Machu Picchu; circular Neolithic structure in Czech Republic; man-on-leopard statue at Karahan Tepe; and cacao conclusively found at Mississippian center.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early cow evidence in Ireland proven wrong; Neanderthals in Arabian desert; earliest Austronesian painting in Indonesia; and grave goods document pre-Inca metal processing.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pope supported Norman Conquest; inscription connects Minoan and Greek gods; ancient Colombian communities built water systems; and newly found church as the site for the First Council of Nicaea.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Moche potters in northern Peru; sugar as the fuel for human brain evolution; female mammoths hunted more often in the Ice Age; and scattered human bones suggest violence at Roman villa in Britain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly found Amazonian civilization; medieval Byzantine shipwreck; ghost DNA of unknown human ancestors; and newly identified Assyrian kings.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Missing airplane found after 74 years; manner of death for children sacrificed by Inca; syntactic structure of Basque Country cave paintings; and 25,000 years of ritual use in Australian cave.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Drought prompted Polynesian migration; Egyptian princesses wielded weapons; precolonial Brazilian subsistence strategies; and Roman female farm managers.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cave reveals cultural similarity in Neanderthals and modern humans; 100,000-year-old facial wound; lost Indigenous village alongside Jesuit mission; and most chivalric literature has been lost.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Reading Herculaneum scrolls; Iberian boat carvings link to Scandinavia; huge Ireland Bronze Age settlement; and early Americans and megafauna.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: All-female burials within South African Pleistocene cave; genetic diversity of Neanderthals; ancient human DNA on cave walls; and discovery of Maya city.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Pre-Stonehenge solar monument; early plague among hunter-gathers; large-scale fishing in the Canary Islants; and second Alamo cannonball.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Maya figurine with the oldest written numbers; argument for gradual development of modern humans; Iron Age burial in northern Scotland; and late Paleolithic jewelry in northern Spain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Moving the Stonehenge Altar Stone; very ancient fire use in South Africa; pirate shipwrecks in the Bahamas; and Copper Age mass burial in Spain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Forensic archaeology of Namibia genocide; human beds in South African caves; pre-Inca migration in Peru; and diverse DNA results from different migrations to Britain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Seismic resistance of the Great Pyramid; Neolithic megastructure in Romania; ritual transformations in Mesoamerica; and Pompeii doctor’s medical kit.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Earlier dates for horse domestication; Neanderthal tooth with dental treatment; heated argument about Monte Verde antiquity; and remarkable size of Macedonian tomb.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA identification of Franklin Expedition crew members; Maya dogs trades widely; chert heat treatment earliest in Australia; and artificial Scottish island built on wood.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldest habitation along South America Atlantic coast; small-scale Germanic migrations on Roman border; origins of bread wheat in the Caucusus; and Shahmash Gate in ancient Nineveh.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Iliad fragment inside Egyptian mummy; Southern Cone populations shifts; discoveries in Czech rail corridor; and study on Neanderthal extinction.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Hominins burning driftwood as fuel?; Ancient Bolivian mummy suffered scarlet fever; Ancient megastructure evinces communal governance; and Homo erectus preferred tools with fossil inclusions?

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Age-old gender gap in meat consumption; surprisingly early stone factory; northern France Neolithic cemetery reveals population replacement; and Maya structure allowed public view of decision-making.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Older dates for Mohenjo-Daro; Native Americans had the earliest dice; Roman mosaic with female fighter; and Shroud of Turin DNA points to India.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New proposed dating for Monte Verde; study of historical world democracy; first Palauans were of mixed ancestry; and Iron Age hoards in Britain.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Carbon dating of French rock art; thousands of ostraca in Egypt; parrot feathers on Peruvian coast; annd Europe’s oldest handgun.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Preserved letter of Nubian king; DNA reveals interactions of European farmers and hunter-gatherers; ancient settlements in northern Mexico; and ceremonial offerings in Templo Mayor.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ice Age sign systems; modern-human interbreeding with Neanderthals; northern Peru geoglyph and farming complex; and Greek inscription in Syrian mosque.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Japan’s prehistoric genetic lineages; psychoactive drink of ancient Greece; very old Venezuelan petroglyph; and older date for Israel’s Ubeidiya site.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Perishable artifacts from Oregon Pleistocene sites; very early Egyptian bow drill; very ancient open-sea travel in the High Arctic; and modeling of wild plant ranges of key domesticates in Western Asia.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bone found, possibly from Hannibal’s war elephants; Early mammoth ivory workshop found; Early innovation linked to mobility; and cemetery yields insights on medieval Hungary.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldest Wooden Tools Unearthed; Oaxaca Tomb Features Enormous Owl Carving; Pillars Point to Thriving Neolithic Culture; and Advanced Stone Technology Unearthed in China.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Indonesian island with the world’s oldest cave art; oldest elephant-bone tool in Europe; early bacterium related to syphilis; and Jordan mass burial reveals migration patterns.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Phrygian tomb far from Gordion; Anglo-Saxon cemetery in England; late burials in Spanish Neolithic dolmen; and underwater remains on Peruvian coast.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Lidar reveals hidden Ecuadorian cultural landscape; very ancient poisoned arrowheads; trove of administrative artifacts in Iran; and rare bronze horn in England.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Lost Spanish mission in Texas; early silver penny in Scotland; huge hillfort in Ireland; and surprisingly ancient cremation in Malawi.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Very old textile fragments in Bulgarian cave; Maya patolli board with mosaic design; Indian stone labyrinth; and Hittite cuneiform fragment in Czech Republic.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Technological innovation at Paleolithic site in France; comet to explain Star of Bethlehem; Chinese community’s climate survival; and where the Bayeux Tapestry originally hung.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Indigenous sites near Jamestown; earliest intentional fire in England; mathematical relationships in Neolithic art; and submerged stone structures in Brittany.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Isolation of early humans in southern Africa; DNA and cat domestication; sacrificial patterns of men and women in ancient China; and Mexica break-aways in Mexico City.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cereal grains and early state development; early migrants to Australia; Peruvian astronomical structure; and two pharaohs in the same tomb.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Early “woman with goose” figurine in northern Israel; unusual metal-production site in Kazakhstan; Lake Mendota canoes; and silver cup in Palestine with cosmic map.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Andean site with thousands of holes; correlating human and dog migration; ancient port in Toulon, France; and Denisovan DNA nearly absent in ancient Japan.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman roads more extensive; early stone tool technology in Kenya; early Maya city as cosmogram; and surprising Ice Age sites in Iberian highlands.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Southern Africa as human point of origin; Maya politics and culture at Ek Balam; Crimea Neanderthal remains connect with Central Asia; and Nigeria excavations highlight Kingdom of Benin.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Stone-tool linkage between North America and Asia; key adjustment of Egyptian chronology; Cahokia wooden pole; and early Australians may not have caused megafauna extinctions.