The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica
The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica explores human cultural heritage through streaming media. It offers audio news that takes listeners on a journey through time, feeding the thrill of discovery. The podcast examines the wonderful diversity of the human experience, covering archaeological findings and historical insights.
Episodes
Audio News for June 21st through the 27th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Possible all-female prehistoric burial deep in a South African cave system
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New study shows Neanderthals were genetically diverse prior to extinction
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First identification of ancient human DN
Audio News for June 14th through the 20th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ancient solar monument predates Stonehenge alignment
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Hunter-gatherer burials reveal earliest known plague outbreak
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Archaeologists uncover evidence of large-scale fishing in the Canary Islands
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Audio News for June 7th through the 13th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Small clay figurine from Guatemala may contain the oldest written numbers in Mesoamerica
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New study argues for gradual, regionally-based development of “modern” humans
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Iron Age burial in nor
udio News for May 31st through June 6th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Humans helped transport Stonehenge’s massive Altar Stone hundreds of kilometers
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South Africa cave extends timeline of human fire use by hundreds of thousands of years
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Researchers find three
Audio News for May 24th through the 30th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Forensic archaeologists seek to unmask Namibia’s colonial-led genocide
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Ancient beds in South African cave show a glimpse of stone-age life
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DNA study in Peru unveils pre-Inca migration and marriage trends
Audio News for May 17th through the 23rd, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists investigate the Great Pyramid’s resilient engineering
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Prehistoric megastructure found in small Romanian settlement
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Ancient Mesoamericans used ritual transformations to connect to divine beings
Audio News for May 10th through the 16th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Study argues horse domestication and riding began earlier than believed
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Neanderthal tooth shows possible dental treatment 59,000 years ago
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Researchers challenge study that questioned Monte
Audio News for May 3rd through the 9th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Four new crew member identifications made from Arctic Franklin Expedition
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Maya highly valued dogs and traded them across long distances
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Australia presents earliest evidence of heat-treated
Audio News for April 26th through May 2nd, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Patagonian burial site shows earlier habitation along the Atlantic coast of South America
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Genetic research in Germany points to smaller-scale migrations of northerners after Roman rule.
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Audio News for April 19th through the 25th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Papyrus fragment of the Iliad found inside Egyptian mummy
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DNA study reveals population movements across Southern Cone
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Major settlement complex uncovered along Czech rail route
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Audio News for April 12th through the 18th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ancient lakeshore charcoal remains indicate hominins used driftwood as fuel source
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Precolonial Bolivian mummy shows evidence of scarlet fever
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Ancient megastructure in Romania shows power o
Audio News for April 5th through the 11th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Isotopic analysis illuminates 10,000-year European gender gap in meat consumption
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Ancient humans ran stone factory for 100,000 years
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Ancient DNA reveals population collapse in northern Fran
Audio News for March 29th through April 4th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New Radiocarbon Dates Push Mohenjo-daro Back to 3300 BC- Rivaling the Earliest Cities of Egypt and Mesopotamia
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ative Americans were making dice, gambling, exploring probability millennia before their Old World counterparts
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Audio News for March 15th through the 21st, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New dating of Monte Verde contradicts consensus on human settlement of South America
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Study traces roots foundations of democracy throughout the ancient world
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Genetic analysis reveals mixed genome of first Palau settlers
Audio News for March 8th through the 14th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists conduct first carbon dating of Paleolithic paintings in southwestern France
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43,000 written fragments chronicle centuries of everyday Egyptian life
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Ancient parrot feathers point to complex pre-Inca logistical planning
Audio News for March 1st through the 7th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Arabic letter from Nubian king proves he was real
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DNA study dispels some popular notions about interactions of farmers and hunter-gatherers in Neolithic Europe
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Archaeologists discover ancient settlements and rock art during
Audio News for February 22nd through the 28th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ice Age carvings show complex sign systems 40,000 years before writing
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Study suggests interbreeding mostly involved Neanderthal males and human females
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Chimú geoglyph and large farming complex documented in Chicama Valley
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Audio News for February 15th through the 21st, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Environmental factors shaped genetic lineages of prehistoric Japan
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Experimental study confirms ancient Greeks could have safely brewed a psychoactive drink
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Newly discovered Venezuelan petro
Audio News for February 8th through the 14th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Oregon cave artifacts point to climate adaptation strategies
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Earliest Egyptian bow drill identified in legacy museum collection
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Archaeologists document early open ocean travel in the High Arctic
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Audio News February 1st through the 7th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Rare elephant bone in Spain offers physical trace of Hannibals war elephants
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Archaeologists uncover early mammoth ivory workshop in Alaska
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Researchers link early human innovation to movement and social connection
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Audio News January 25th through the 31st, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Researchers unearth oldest handheld tools made of wood
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Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca features symbolic owl carving
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Ancient Taş Tepeler pillars found in Adiyaman point to an expansive Neolithic culture
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Audio News for January 18th through the 24th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Indonesian island of Sulawesi holds world’s oldest cave art almost 70,000 years old
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Oldest elephant-bone tool in Europe shows early human technological ability
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Ancient remains extend timeline of bacteria related to syphilis
Audio News for January 11th through the 17th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Artifacts from Phrygian tomb suggest possible link to King Midas
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Medieval Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered in Suffolk, England
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Medieval burials at Menga dolmen suggest symbolic significance of monument over 1000 years after construction
Audio News for January 4th, 2025, through the 10th, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Long-hidden ancient landscape documented in Ecuadorian rainforest
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Ancient poisoned arrowheads reveal complex hunting strategies in early humans
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Trove of ancient administrative artifacts found in Iran
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Audio News for December 28th, 2025, through January 3rd, 2026
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Lost Spanish mission site located in southeastern Texas
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Early silver penny sheds light on Scotland’s first coinage
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Prehistoric hillfort shows signs of a very large settlement in eastern Ireland
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Audio News for December 21st through the 27th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Researchers discover 5,000-year-old textile fragments in Magura Cave in Bulgaria
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First Maya patolli board found with mosaic design
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Indian stone labyrinth may indicate relationship with Roman traders
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Audio News for December 14th through the 20th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New analysis documents technological developments in toolmaking at Terra Amata
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Ancient Chinese account of comet may substantiate biblical Star of Bethlehem
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Resilience theory helps tell story of ancient Chinese community’s c
Audio News for November 30th through December 6th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Genetic study reveals long isolation of early humans in southern Africa
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Ancient DNA offers new clues about early cat domestication
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New findings explain why men and women were sacrificed differently in ancient China
Audio News for December 7th through the 13th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Excavations confirm lost Indigenous settlements described by John Smith
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Earliest known intentional fire was set in England about 400,000 years ago
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Botanical art from 8000 years ago shows early mathematical thinking
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Audio News for November 23rd through the 29th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Cereal cultivation led to the development of early states
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Modern humans came to Australia 60,000 years ago along two routes
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New Peruvian astronomical structure the oldest in the Americas
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Audio News for November 16th through the 22nd, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
12,000-year-old artifact shows early symbolic link between woman and goose
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Bronze Age settlement with metal production found on the Kazakh Steppe
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Underwater canoes in Lake Mendota reveal ancient travel routes
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Audio News for November 9th through the 15th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
5,200-hole monument may be the oldest accounting system in the Andes
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Humans and dogs migrated together for 11,000 years
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French naval base built on top of a 2,000-year-old port
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Japan had the
Audio News for November 2nd through the 8th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study increases map of Roman empire’s roads by over 100,000 kilometers
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Very early stone tool technology lasting 300,000 years in Kenya
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3,000-year-old Maya site built as map of universe
Audio News for October 26th through November 1st, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists propose timeline for first human migration out of southern Africa
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Unearthed artifacts point us to Maya politics and culture at Ek Balam
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Newly discovered Neanderthal remains reveal intercontinental connections
Audio News for October 19th through the 25th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Paleolithic stone tools reveal links between North America and Asia
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Archaeologists reconsider links between notable markers of the Bronze Age
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Cahokian wooden monument points to the city’s p
Audio News for October 12th through the 18th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study proposes that hominids outside Homo family used tools
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Discovery of a large Minoan labyrinth in Crete
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Underwater archaeological site in Belize shows Maya production of salt
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Audio News for October 5th through the 11th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study shows how Easter Island inhabitants walked their moai statues
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New date for ancient Egyptian temple comes from the shifting path of the Nile
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Public ritual practices helped form early Chinese state
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Audio News for September 28th through October 4th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
China’s earliest known urban society identified
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New timeline proposed for emergence of Bering Land Bridge
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Now-extinct megafauna were a key part of human Ice Age diets
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Audio News for September 21st through the 27th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
42,000-year-old jewelry workshop discovered in France
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Pre-Hispanic ceremonial structures and petroglyphs point to neglected history of Indigenous cultures in Mexico
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New evidence from Bronze Age Sicily pushes back t
Audio News for September 14th through the 20th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Traces of exploding comet identified at Clovis archaeological sites
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World’s oldest mummies were smoke-dried
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Interdisciplinary team confirms woman honored by Roman-era marble sculpture
Audio News for September 7th through the 13th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study indicates ancient hominins intentionally buried their dead
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Ancient red floor in Turkey shows Neolithic ritual life
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Newly uncovered Caral city shows how residents peacefully adapted to climate change
Audio News for August 31st through September 6th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
First known use of indigo dye found on Paleolithic era stones
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Archaeologists piece together 9,000-year-old tool-making workshop in West Africa
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Burial mounds promise new revelations about Ir
Audio News for August 24th through the 30th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New evidence of early agricultural behaviors beyond Fertile Crescent
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Vibrant 3,000-year-old Peruvian mural points to a coastal, pre-Inca artistic tradition
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Excavation of a single Scottish field reveals 10,000 years
Audio News for August 17th through the 23rd, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study shows why early Persian Gulf communities were forced to design large-scale infrastructure
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New study traces transition from hunter-gatherers to the agricultural lifestyle
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Audio News for August 10th through the 16th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Multiple year-long droughts may have caused collapse of the Maya in the Yucatán Peninsula
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Silver Viking-Age hoard in England shows trade networks with Islamic World
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Die-cast silver coins in Southeast Asia showcase r
Audio News for August 3rd through the 9th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New research reveals Maya population much larger than earlier estimates
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Artifacts from unknown human relative found in Indonesia
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New excavations show some residents returned to Pompeii after Vesuvius eruption
Audio News for July 27th through August 2nd, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Modeling study tests a Shroud of Turin creation hypothesis
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Medieval dental remains reveal the lifetime impact of early malnutrition
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Archaeologists identify mineral source for iconic ancie
Audio News for July 20th through the 26th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Lost Maya city of Sak-Bahlán rediscovered through GIS
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Early funerary ritual revealed in Israel’s 100,000-year-old Tinshemet Cave
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Bronze armor from the Late Bronze Age uncovered in the Czech Republic
Audio News Special Edition, July 13, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Purdue Research Foundation and Archaeological Legacy Institute to embark on expedition to identify Amelia Earhart’s missing plane
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Audio News for June 29th through July 5th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Oldest ancient Egyptian genome indicates North African and Mesopotamian ancestry
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Flourishing 3,500-year-old city in Peru served as key trading post
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Old Stone Age tools in China suggest sophisticated foraging techniq
Audio News for June 22nd through the 28th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study suggests "Dragon Man" skull may reveal what a Denisovan’s face looked like
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Ancient Egyptian city of Imet was a thriving urban area
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Research shows a large increase in human use of fire 50,000 years ago
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Audio News for June 15th through the 21st, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Ancient dog DNA reveals connection between dog migration and farming spread into South America
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New evidence confirms great age of New Mexico footprints
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Ancient Roman city of Metlosedum found in modern day Melun
Audio News for June 8th through the 14th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
First-of-its-kind Roman artifact unearthed in Ireland
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Dental study reveals the story of the domestication of wild boars in early Neolithic China
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Excavation reveals centuries of Veracruz history from the Aztec Empire to the present d
Audio News for June 1st through the 7th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Artificial intelligence model utilized to date handwriting on Dead Sea Scrolls
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Expansive, Millenia-Old Indigenous American crop fields indicate high-level social organization
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Royal tomb in Turkey may belong to the r
Audio News for May 25th through the 31st, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New genomic testing sheds light on collapse of Maya civilization
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7,000-year study of desert monuments reflects climate shift
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Presumed Iron Age Roman war cemetery actually holds pre-Roman Br
Audio News for May 18th through the 24th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Political events and cultural shifts influenced the genetic landscape of Spain
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Tomb and artifacts uncovered in ancient Peruvian citadel
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Indonesian sea floor gives up two Homo erectus skull fragments
Audio News for May 11th through the 17th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study of obsidian artifacts in Mexico points to large Mesoamerican trading network
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Research team uncovers diversity of pregnancy depictions among Viking age communities
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Excavation of new ancient relief depicts last grea
Audio News for May 4th through the 10th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Philodemus’ lost work identified in the charred Herculaneum papyri
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From Britain to the Mediterranean: tracing Bronze Age tin trade across civilizations
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wo swastika-engraved swords discovered in an ancient Celtic necropolis in France
Audio News for April 27th through May 3rd, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Genetic study fills in the story of New Mexico tribe’s Chaco Canyon ancestry
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Luxor obelisk may have displayed “propaganda” praising Ramesses II
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Ancient human settlement on Scottish island reveals previously unknown
Audio News for April 20th through the 26th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study finds first physical evidence for Roman era human-animal gladiatorial combat in Europe
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Ancient DNA shows Punic people had virtually no Levantine ancestors
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Ancient DNA shows Punic people had virtually no L
Audio News for April 13th through April 19th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study reveals that social inequality isn’t inevitable
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Human remains in Texas show evidence of ancient cultural practices
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Research indicates domestic cats originated in Tunisia
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Audio News for April 6th through April 12th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Extremely rare Denisovan jawbone confirms human cousins spread across Asia
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Teotihuacan Altar found in Guatemala reveals cultural crossover in thriving city-state of Tikal
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Ancient tools from a South African cave rev
Audio News for March 30th through April 6th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Kach Kouch in Morocco shows Bronze Age habitation, refuting past narratives of emptiness
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Middle Paleolithic people in China developed innovative stone tools
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Researchers find ancient weapon system in Texas caves
Audio News for March 23rd through the 29th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New evidence from Basur Höyük reveals egalitarian funerary practices in Bronze Age Mesopotamia
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Starch granules and the cultural significance of geophytes in Western North America during Prehistoric times
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Audio News for March 16th through the 22nd, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study shows monument discovered in the 80s is two centuries older than Stonehenge
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Egyptian colonial cemetery reveals pyramid tombs weren't only for the elite
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First evidence of human hab
Audio News for March 9th through the 15th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
New study illuminates the important relationship between Neanderthals and modern humans
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Ancient DNA reveals relationships between Stone Age Europeans and North Africans
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Mysterious Pre-Colum
Audio News for March 2nd through the 8th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Sophisticated irrigation system uncovered in ancient city of Eridu
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Migration, not culture, influenced Europe’s Celtic languages
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Ancient ceramic “puppets” in El Salvador show Central Ameri
Audio News for February 23rd through March 1st, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Fossilized track marks indicate earliest known use of handcarts
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DNA tracing confirms complex genetic backgrounds of the Huns
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Super heating and cooling from Vesuvius eruption caused glass brain
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Audio News for February 16th through the 22nd, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
King Thutmose II’s tomb found, the first royal burial discovery in over a century
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Laser technology uncovers intricate fifteenth century Zapotec city
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Plague epidemics likely started a century before the Black Death
Audio News for February 9th through the 15th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Archaeologists uncover Silla Kingdom palace site, revealing royal structures and advanced engineering
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Ancient skeletons found in the Thames may indicate Bronze and Iron Age conflicts
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Study uncovers complex genetic origins of the Fulani, one
Audio News for February 2nd through the 8th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Roots of Indo-European languages revealed by ancient DNA
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Arabic manuscript contains lost works of the Greek “Great Geometer” Apollonius
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Changes in North American Indigenous population outlined by radiocarbon-dated artifacts
Audio News for January 26th through February 1st, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
English seaside residence identified as the lost site of King Harold's 11th-century home
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Unique drainage and irrigation system supported Amazon's first grain-based agrarian economy
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Roman sanctuary discovered deep within Spa
Audio News for January 19th through the 25th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Oldest known presence of hominins in Europe found in Romania
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Volcanic ash may have helped develop ancient Bolivian city
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Human effort made Australia’s earth rings
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Ancient trade betw
Audio News for January 12th through the 18th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Amelia Earhart’s airplane possibly discovered in satellite imagery
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Archaeologists find underground Inca tunnel system
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Iron Age Celtic communities in Britain based on female lineage
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Audio News for January 5th through the 11th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Anglo-Saxon connections with Byzantium shown in Sutton Hoo burials
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Pottery production in Iraq shows evidence of early specialization dating back 8,000 years
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Ancient DNA and human migrations shed light on the genetic
Audio News for December 29th, 2024, through January 4th, 2025
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Possible burial of a female medieval warrior located in Hungary
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New DNA analysis method brings historic European migrations into focus
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Eighteenth-century Russian cargo unearthed from a Caspian Sea shipwreck in I
Audio News for December 22nd through the 28th, 2024
News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
Spectacular shipwreck bearing 10,000 ceramics lay untouched in Aegean for over a millennium
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Ancient genomes reveal Bronze Age branching of Indo-European language groups
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Villa double the size of US White House revealed
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