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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.
