The Archaeology Channel - Audio News from Archaeologica

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.

Episodes

Audio News for July 27th through August 2nd, 2025

January 6, 2026

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Modeling study tests a Shroud of Turin creation hypothesis (details) (details)
Medieval dental remains reveal the lifetime impact of early malnutrition (details) (details)
Archaeologists identify mineral source for iconic ancient color, Maya Blue ...

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Audio News for December 28th, 2025, through January 3rd, 2026

January 5, 2026 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Lost Spanish mission site located in southeastern Texas (details)
Early silver penny sheds light on Scotland’s first coinage (details)
Prehistoric hillfort shows signs of a very large settlement in eastern Ireland (details)(details)
Ancient cremation of a woma...

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Audio News for December 21st through the 27th, 2025

December 29, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Researchers discover 5,000-year-old textile fragments in Magura Cave in Bulgaria (details)
First Maya patolli board found with mosaic design (details)(details)
Indian stone labyrinth may indicate relationship with Roman traders (details)
Ancient Hittite cuneif...

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Audio News for December 14th through the 20th, 2025

December 22, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

New analysis documents technological developments in toolmaking at Terra Amata (details)(details)
Ancient Chinese account of comet may substantiate biblical Star of Bethlehem (details)(details)
Resilience theory helps tell story of ancient Chinese community’s climate survival ...

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Audio News for December 7th through the 13th, 2025

December 15, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Excavations confirm lost Indigenous settlements described by John Smith (details)
Earliest known intentional fire was set in England about 400,000 years ago (details)
Botanical art from 8000 years ago shows early mathematical thinking (details)(details
Ancient...

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Audio News for November 30th through December 6th, 2025

December 8, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Genetic study reveals long isolation of early humans in southern Africa (details)(details)
Ancient DNA offers new clues about early cat domestication (details)(details)
New findings explain why men and women were sacrificed differently in ancient China (details)(details)

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Audio News for November 23rd through the 29th, 2025

December 1, 2025 • 13 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Cereal cultivation led to the development of early states (details)(details)
Modern humans came to Australia 60,000 years ago along two routes (details)(details)
New Peruvian astronomical structure the oldest in the Americas (details)(details)
Pharoah Sheshonq...

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Audio News for November 16th through the 22nd, 2025

November 24, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

12,000-year-old artifact shows early symbolic link between woman and goose (details)
Bronze Age settlement with metal production found on the Kazakh Steppe (details)(details)
Underwater canoes in Lake Mendota reveal ancient travel routes (details)
Ancient silv...

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Audio News for November 9th through the 15th, 2025

November 17, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

5,200-hole monument may be the oldest accounting system in the Andes (details)(details)
Humans and dogs migrated together for 11,000 years (details)
French naval base built on top of a 2,000-year-old port (details)
Japan had the least Denisovan DNA in East Asi...

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Audio News for November 2nd through the 8th, 2025

November 10, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

New study increases map of Roman empire’s roads by over 100,000 kilometers (details) (details)
Very early stone tool technology lasting 300,000 years in Kenya (details) (details)
3,000-year-old Maya site built as map of universe (details) ...

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Audio News for October 26th through November 1st, 2025

November 3, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Archaeologists propose timeline for first human migration out of southern Africa (details)details)
Unearthed artifacts point us to Maya politics and culture at Ek Balam (details)
Newly discovered Neanderthal remains reveal intercontinental connections (details)details)

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Audio News for October 19th through the 25th, 2025

October 27, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Paleolithic stone tools reveal links between North America and Asia (details) (details)
Archaeologists reconsider links between notable markers of the Bronze Age (details) (details)
Cahokian wooden monument points to the city’s political and economic peak ...

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Audio News for October 12th through the 18th, 2025

October 20, 2025 • 14 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

New study proposes that hominids outside Homo family used tools (details) (details)
Discovery of a large Minoan labyrinth in Crete (details)
Underwater archaeological site in Belize shows Maya production of salt (details)(details)
Presumed plague in Egyptian t...

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Audio News for October 5th through the 11th, 2025

October 13, 2025 • 13 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

New study shows how Easter Island inhabitants walked their moai statues (details)
New date for ancient Egyptian temple comes from the shifting path of the Nile (details)(details)
Public ritual practices helped form early Chinese state (details)(details)
Ancien...

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Audio News for September 28th through October 4th, 2025

October 6, 2025 • 11 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

China’s earliest known urban society identified (details)
New timeline proposed for emergence of Bering Land Bridge (details)(details)
Now-extinct megafauna were a key part of human Ice Age diets (details)(details)
Archaeologists investigate impact of climate ...

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Audio News for September 21st through the 27th, 2025

September 29, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

42,000-year-old jewelry workshop discovered in France (details) (details)
Pre-Hispanic ceremonial structures and petroglyphs point to neglected history of Indigenous cultures in Mexico (details)
New evidence from Bronze Age Sicily pushes back the arrival of the horse ...

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Audio News for September 14th through the 20th, 2025

September 22, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

Traces of exploding comet identified at Clovis archaeological sites (details) (details)
World’s oldest mummies were smoke-dried (details) (details)
Interdisciplinary team confirms woman honored by Roman-era marble sculpture (details) ...

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Audio News for September 7th through the 13th, 2025

September 15, 2025 • 12 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

New study indicates ancient hominins intentionally buried their dead (details) (details)
Ancient red floor in Turkey shows Neolithic ritual life (details)
Newly uncovered Caral city shows how residents peacefully adapted to climate change (details)

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Audio News for August 31st through September 6th, 2025

September 8, 2025 • 11 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

First known use of indigo dye found on Paleolithic era stones (details) (details)
Archaeologists piece together 9,000-year-old tool-making workshop in West Africa (details) (details)
Burial mounds promise new revelations about Iron Age communities in Kazakhsta...

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Audio News for August 24th through the 30th, 2025

September 2, 2025 • 9 mins

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

New evidence of early agricultural behaviors beyond Fertile Crescent (details) (details)
Vibrant 3,000-year-old Peruvian mural points to a coastal, pre-Inca artistic tradition (details)
Excavation of a single Scottish field reveals 10,000 years of history (det...

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