Best Rick Pettigrew Podcasts (2025)

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Audio News for May 18th through the 24th, 2025 12:54

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Political events and cultural shifts influenced the genetic landscape of Spain (details) (details) Tomb and artifacts uncovered in ancient Peruvian citadel (details) Indonesian sea floor gives up two Homo erectus skull fragments (details) (details) Rare ebony African figurines uncovered in Israel (details)…

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Audio News for May 11th through the 17th, 2025

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study of obsidian artifacts in Mexico points to large Mesoamerican trading network (details)(details) Research team uncovers diversity of pregnancy depictions among Viking age communities (details)(details) Excavation of new ancient relief depicts last great Assyrian king (details) Scientific analysis u…

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Audio News for May 4th through the 10th, 2025 13:21

22d ago13:21

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Philodemus’ lost work identified in the charred Herculaneum papyri (details) From Britain to the Mediterranean: tracing Bronze Age tin trade across civilizations (details)(details) wo swastika-engraved swords discovered in an ancient Celtic necropolis in France (details) Uncovering ancient ritual drug use a…

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Audio News for April 27th through May 3rd, 2025 12:44

29d ago12:44

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Genetic study fills in the story of New Mexico tribe’s Chaco Canyon ancestry (details) (details) Luxor obelisk may have displayed “propaganda” praising Ramesses II (details) Ancient human settlement on Scottish island reveals previously unknown extent of nomadic travel (details) (details) Milky Way Galaxy i…

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Audio News for April 20th through the 26th, 2025 13:11

1M ago13:11

13:11

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study finds first physical evidence for Roman era human-animal gladiatorial combat in Europe (details) (details) Ancient DNA shows Punic people had virtually no Levantine ancestors (details) Ancient DNA shows Punic people had virtually no Levantine ancestors (details) Mongolia's earliest pottery is 2,00…

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Audio News for April 13th through April 19th, 2025 13:26

1M ago13:26

13:26

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study reveals that social inequality isn’t inevitable (details) (details) Human remains in Texas show evidence of ancient cultural practices (details) Research indicates domestic cats originated in Tunisia (details) (details) (details) Tree ring study indicates drought led to barbarians attacking Roman …

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Audio News for April 6th through April 12th, 2025 11:03

2M ago11:03

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Extremely rare Denisovan jawbone confirms human cousins spread across Asia (details)(details) Teotihuacan Altar found in Guatemala reveals cultural crossover in thriving city-state of Tikal (details)(details)(details) Ancient tools from a South African cave reveal interactions among prehistoric peoples (det…

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Audio News for March 30th through April 6th, 2025 12:10

2M ago12:10

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Kach Kouch in Morocco shows Bronze Age habitation, refuting past narratives of emptiness (details) (details) Middle Paleolithic people in China developed innovative stone tools (details) Researchers find ancient weapon system in Texas caves (details) (details) Sutton Hoo helmet likely originated in Scandina…

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Audio News for March 23rd through the 29th, 2025 12:49

2M ago12:49

12:49

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New evidence from Basur Höyük reveals egalitarian funerary practices in Bronze Age Mesopotamia (details) (details) Starch granules and the cultural significance of geophytes in Western North America during Prehistoric times (details) (details) Devastating wildfires threaten South Korea's cultural heritage a…

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Audio News for March 16th through the 22nd, 2025 13:10

2M ago13:10

13:10

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study shows monument discovered in the 80s is two centuries older than Stonehenge (details) (details) Egyptian colonial cemetery reveals pyramid tombs weren't only for the elite (details) (details) First evidence of human habitation on the Tibetan Plateau during "unsurvivable" Last Glacial Maximum (deta…

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Audio News for March 9th through the 15th, 2025 13:19

3M ago13:19

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New study illuminates the important relationship between Neanderthals and modern humans (details) (details) Ancient DNA reveals relationships between Stone Age Europeans and North Africans (details) (details) Mysterious Pre-Columbian burial investigated in Ecuador (details) (details) Ancient Greek burial mo…

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Audio News for March 2nd through the 8th, 2025 14:07

3M ago14:07

14:07

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Sophisticated irrigation system uncovered in ancient city of Eridu (details) (details) Migration, not culture, influenced Europe’s Celtic languages (details) (details) Ancient ceramic “puppets” in El Salvador show Central American connections (details) (details) World’s oldest bone tools reported from Olduv…

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Audio News for February 23rd through March 1st, 2025 14:43

3M ago14:43

14:43

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Fossilized track marks indicate earliest known use of handcarts (details)(details) DNA tracing confirms complex genetic backgrounds of the Huns (details)(details) Super heating and cooling from Vesuvius eruption caused glass brain (details)(details) Research summary: Göbekli Tepe was a domestic site (detail…

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Audio News for February 16th through the 22nd, 2025 13:25

3M ago13:25

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: King Thutmose II’s tomb found, the first royal burial discovery in over a century (details)(details)(details) Laser technology uncovers intricate fifteenth century Zapotec city (details)(details) Plague epidemics likely started a century before the Black Death (details)(details) Excavation uncovers section …

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Audio News for February 9th through the 15th, 2025 13:06

4M ago13:06

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists uncover Silla Kingdom palace site, revealing royal structures and advanced engineering (details) Ancient skeletons found in the Thames may indicate Bronze and Iron Age conflicts (details) Study uncovers complex genetic origins of the Fulani, one of Africa’s largest pastoral groups (details) (…

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Audio News for February 2nd through the 8th, 2025 12:18

4M ago12:18

12:18

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roots of Indo-European languages revealed by ancient DNA (details) (details) Arabic manuscript contains lost works of the Greek “Great Geometer” Apollonius (details) Changes in North American Indigenous population outlined by radiocarbon-dated artifacts (details) Interdisciplinary team peers inside Mount Ve…

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Audio News for January 26th through February 1st, 2025 13:38

4M ago13:38

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: English seaside residence identified as the lost site of King Harold's 11th-century home (details)(details) Unique drainage and irrigation system supported Amazon's first grain-based agrarian economy (details)(details) Roman sanctuary discovered deep within Spain’s key Paleolithic site (details) DNA researc…

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Audio News for January 19th through the 25th, 2025 13:38

4M ago13:38

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Oldest known presence of hominins in Europe found in Romania (details) (details) Volcanic ash may have helped develop ancient Bolivian city (details) Human effort made Australia’s earth rings (details(details)) Ancient trade between strangers may explain the creation of money (details)(details)…

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Audio News for January 12th through the 18th, 2025 15:26

4M ago15:26

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Amelia Earhart’s airplane possibly discovered in satellite imagery (details) Archaeologists find underground Inca tunnel system (details) Iron Age Celtic communities in Britain based on female lineage (details) (details) Excavators uncover opulent Pompeii bathhouse (details)…

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Audio News for January 5th through the 11th, 2025 14:17

5M ago14:17

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Anglo-Saxon connections with Byzantium shown in Sutton Hoo burials (details) (details) Pottery production in Iraq shows evidence of early specialization dating back 8,000 years (details) Ancient DNA and human migrations shed light on the genetic history of Indonesia (details) (details) Strontium isotope map…

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Audio News for December 29th, 2024, through January 4th, 2025 12:49

5M ago12:49

12:49

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Possible burial of a female medieval warrior located in Hungary (details)(details) New DNA analysis method brings historic European migrations into focus (details)(details) Eighteenth-century Russian cargo unearthed from a Caspian Sea shipwreck in Iran (details) (details) Colonial-era angel murals unearthed…

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Audio News for December 22nd through the 28th, 2024 14:31

5M ago14:31

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Spectacular shipwreck bearing 10,000 ceramics lay untouched in Aegean for over a millennium (details) Ancient genomes reveal Bronze Age branching of Indo-European language groups (details) (details) Villa double the size of US White House revealed within ancient Assyrian capital (details)(details) 1,500-yea…

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Audio News for December 15th through the 21st, 2024 12:56

5M ago12:56

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Silver amulet may reveal spread of Christianity north of the Alps (details) Remains of 40 people from the Bronze Age reveal violent deaths (details) (details) Site of Alexander the Great’s most important battle is located (details) Syphilis started in the Americas, not Europe (details) (details)…

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Audio News for December 8th through the 14th, 2024 13:48

6M ago13:48

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists uncover sarcophagus that may belong to Saint Nicholas (details) Two studies support new date of Neanderthals interbreeding with humans (details) Manot Cave shows evidence of earliest communal ritual on Asian continent (details) (details) President Andrew Jackson’s slave cemetery found on his …

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Audio News for December 1st through the 7th, 2024 12:48

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New findings from Shakhi Kora evidence the first government system dates back to the 4th millennium (details) (details) Ancient undeciphered script found on tablet in Georgia (details) (details) New Alaska discoveries push human-canid relationship record back 2,000 years (details) (details) Archaeologists d…

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Audio News for November 24th through the 30th, 2024 11:15

6M ago11:15

11:15

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: European Pleistocene lithics mark key development in human technological evolution (details) (details) Newly uncovered ancient dams showcase Liangzhu's advanced hydraulic engineering (details) Pre-Columbian fishery system discovered in Belize sustained thousands (details) (details) Footprints in Kenya revea…

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Audio News for November 17th through the 23rd, 2024 11:42

6M ago11:42

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Newly discovered alphabet could be oldest in human history (details) Cutting-edge imaging reveals hidden text in legendary Blue Qur'an (details) New statistics technique better detehttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241119181845.htm Bermuda dig reveals forgotten Colonial-era history (details)…

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Audio News for November 10th through the 16th, 2024 13:53

7M ago13:53

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Satellite imaging pinpoints location of ancient Islamic battle (details) (details) Earliest known Maya salt production site uncovered in Belize (details) (details) Dexterity in australopithecines like Lucy may have developed far earlier than thought (details) (details) Ancient Greece’s cultural rise started…

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Audio News for November 3rd through 9th, 2024 14:11

7M ago14:11

14:11

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Mesopotamian cylinder seals linked to development of writing system (details) (details) DNA analysis challenges previous assumptions about Pompeii body casts (details) (details) Ice Age stone tablets show oldest known images of fishing nets (details) (details) Excavation of Peruvian burial mound reveals 76 …

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Audio News for October 27th through November 2nd, 2024 12:43

7M ago12:43

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists discover bronze plaque with inscriptions at monumental temple of Poseidon in Greece (details) New evidence reveals prehistoric Polynesians' southernmost voyage (details) (details) LiDAR technology reveals ancient Maya settlement patterns in Campeche (details) (details) (details) 4,000-year-ol…

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Audio News for October 20th through the 26th, 2024 11:15

7M ago11:15

11:15

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rare Minoan sanctuary discovered at Archanes (details) Copper Age Carpathian miners spurred developments in the wheel (details)(details) Forgotten colonial-era settlement found beneath the Amazon rainforest (details) High-altitude settlements along the Silk Road puzzle archaeologists (details)(details) å…

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Audio News for October 13th through the 19th, 2024 13:49

7M ago13:49

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New documentary suggest Columbus was of Spanish Jewish heritage (details) Untouched burial chamber discovered beneath Petra’s ‘Treasury’ (details)(details) Unearthed throne room suggests Peru's ancient Moche society had a female ruler (details)(details) Fifty well-preserved Viking era skeletons discovered i…

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Audio News for October 6th through the 12th, 2024 12:33

8M ago12:33

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Rising and lowering sea levels influenced living patterns of earliest coastal villages (details) (details) Jade artifacts reveal evidence of trade between two cultures in ancient China (details) Early Neolithic longhouse uncovered in Poland (details) Scythian-like horse sacrifice in southern Siberia royal t…

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Audio News for September 29th through October 5th, 2024 14:18

8M ago14:18

14:18

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists discover large cemetery of Viking skeletons (details) More than 1000 clay tablets returned from Chicago to Iran (details) Walrus ivory shows interactions between Vikings and Indigenous North Americans (details) (details) South African site shows 9,000 years of genetic continuity (details)(det…

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Audio News for September 22nd through the 28th, 2024 12:01

8M ago12:01

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Identified Nazca Lines nearly doubled with assistance from AI model (details)(details) Surprise discovery of centuries-old sweet potato cultivation in New Zealand (details)(details) DNA analysis reveals gender imbalance in the Neolithic necropolis of Panoría (details)(details) Bronze Age find reveals second…

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Audio News for September 15th through the 21st, 2024 12:28

8M ago12:28

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Analysis of America's oldest tombstone illuminates colonial era trade networks (details) South African rock art may depict animal that went extinct before dinosaurs (details) (details) Mystery man interred under Notre-Dame nave was noted French poet (details) Isotopic and stylistic analysis reveals The Lion…

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Audio News for September 8th through the 14th, 2024 12:10

9M ago12:10

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: DNA of 'Thorin,' one of the last Neanderthals, finally sequenced, revealing inbreeding and 50,000 years of genetic isolation (details) (details) Easter Island's population never collapsed, but it did have contact with Native Americans, DNA study suggests (details) (details) Archaeologists challenge theory o…

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Audio News for September 1st through the 7th, 2024 12:02

9M ago12:02

12:02

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Scientist rules out Orkney origin for Stonehenge Altar Stone (details) Roman silver coins may have been hidden from pirates (details) New model reveals how climate impacted human dispersal over Europe (details) Activists memorialize New York cemetery for enslaved people (details) å…

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Audio News for August 25th through the 31st, 2024 11:12

9M ago11:12

11:12

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: 17th century samurai sword found in German WWII rubble (details) Study finds sacrificed Inca child had violent death (details) Mysterious Nordic burial ground for children unearthed (details) Missing WWII USAF pilot identified at Sicilian crash site (details) å…

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Audio News for August 18th through the 24th, 2024 11:37

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Unearthed Peru temple burials predate Inca empire by millennia (details) New planted spear idea upends view of how prehistoric hunters downed huge prey (details) (details) Ancient burial site spanning over 2,100 years located under zoo in south China (details) 8,000-year old female figurine in Turkish Neoli…

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Audio News for August 11th through the 17th, 2024 13:51

10M ago13:51

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Altar Stone at Stonehenge matches the bedrock found in Scotland (details) (details) Giant stone glyph uncovered on the bottom of a Maya sacred pool (details) Neanderthals in southern Pyrenees were highly capable and adaptable (details) (details) West Papua cave reveals early pathway for seafaring migrants i…

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Audio News for August 4th through the 10th, 2024 14:12

10M ago14:12

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: New fossils provide insights into development of extinct hominin species (details) New proposal for abandonment of ancient American settlement of Cahokia (details) (details) Göbekli Tepe might show world’s oldest calendar (details) (details) Excavation of Chinese bone needle workshop shows developments in a…

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Audio News for July 28th through August 3rd, 2024 11:16

10M ago11:16

11:16

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Burial site used throughout Iron and Bronze ages unearthed in Germany (details) (details) Remains of affluent life in 17th century Williamsburg unearthed in Virginia (details) Chinese Bronze Age human sacrifice shows reinforcement of social status (details) Virtual dissection conducted of 3,500 year old “Sc…

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Audio News for July 21st through the 27th, 2024 12:50

10M ago12:50

12:50

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Workshop buried in Sanxingdui Ruins offers clues to ancient jade and stone sourcing, crafting, distribution (details) (details) Lake draining helps team find proof of ancient pre-Vikings in Norway (details) Genetics show how ancient wild Four Corners potato became widespread staple (details) (details) Excav…

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Audio News for July 14th through the 20th, 2024 12:47

11M ago12:47

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Archaeologists uncover underwater rock carvings of Egyptian pharaohs (details) Early humans in South America arrived early and ate armadillos (details) (details) Ancient circular stone structures in Saudi Arabia indicate inhabitants were sophisticated thinkers (details) (details) New geologic dating shows e…

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Audio News for July 7th through the 13th, 2024 12:16

11M ago12:16

12:16

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Roman garden may have belonged to Caligula (details) Hittite royal seal warns of punishment (details) Plant remains show how early farming unfolded in east Africa (details)(details) Peruvian temple and theater are four thousand years old (details) åBy Archaeological Legacy Institute

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Audio News for June 30th through July 6th, 2024 11:53

11M ago11:53

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Novel analysis of cave bone fragments brings lives of extinct humans on the Tibetan plateau into focus (details) (details) Newly discovered Venezuelan rock art may point to an unknown culture (details) (details) Australia’s oldest known wooden artifacts document Aboriginal rituals (details) (details) Analys…

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Audio News for June 23rd through the 29th, 2024 12:34

11M ago12:34

12:34

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Groundbreaking discovery in tomb-filled capital of Korea's ancient Silla Kingdom (details) Laser sensors pierce forest canopy to reveal forgotten Maya settlements (details) Gravitational wave science helps solve mystery of ancient analog computer (details) First discovery of Neanderthal with Down syndrome c…

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Audio News for June 16th through the 22nd, 2024 15:18

11M ago15:18

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Medieval stone catapult balls found at Kenilworth Castle (details) Sweet find in the cellars of Mount Vernon (details) Protein analysis reveals human blood in plaster used on royal tomb in Benin (details) Remains of Celtic people at Swiss site show violent death, probably in a bridge collapse (details)…

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Audio News for June 9th through the 15th, 2024 15:14

12M ago15:14

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News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Dietary evidence shows how a Bronze Age city in Syria survived (details) Glass beads reveal Indigenous American trade networks (details)(details) New evidence shows where survivors of Vesuvius eruption resettled (details) Dating for the world’s oldest wooden sculpture (details)(details)…

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