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Audio News for May 17th through the 23rd, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Early footprints in Tanzania; modeling Neanderthal extinction; cadaver dogs in archaology; and early bone arrowpoint in southern Africa.
Audio News for May 10th through the 16th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Maize came shortly before Cahokia; global cooling prompted spread of rice; ancient Africa and epidemics; and dating the collapse of Negev farming.
Audio News for May 3rd through the 9th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Cahokia causeway orientation; dietary shift in early Indonesia; X-rays explore Mary Rose artifacts; and archaeological perspective on pandemic effects.
Audio News for April 26th through May 2nd, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: New dates correct the story of early contact in North America; burials inside homes at Çatalhöyük; unique Roman burial goods in Bulgaria; and first Africans in Mexico City.
Audio News for April 19th through the 25th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ottoman merchant ship with surprising cargo; Salish Sea basin population was large and ancient; increased use of marine resources by Scandinanvian hunter-gatherers; and cuisines of ancient Baltic hunter-gatherers.
Audio News for April 12th through the 18th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Melting snow patch in Norway reveals ancient artifacts; fatty traces evidence history of milk and meat diet in East Africa; rabbits and chickens as pets in Iron Age Britain; and ancient use of Alaskan mountain pass.
Audio News for April 5th through the 11th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Neanderthal site with world’s oldest string; Spanish use of native Mexican copper smelting; German Bronze Age site similar to Stonehenge; and London prehistory pushed back by 3000 years.
Audio News for March 29th through April 4th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient Florida fish ponds; treasure trove in Cretan cave; floating palaces of Roman Emperor Caligula; and ritual site of Mesopotamian war god.
Audio News for March 22nd through the 28th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Obsidian points in Ohio rituals; plants as Ice Age staples; world’s earliest epidemic in China; and early spread of Mesoamerican ball game.
Audio News for March 15th through the 21st, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Mammoth bone circle in Russia; Ponce de Leon not first European in Florida; Ice Age stone carvings in Indonesia; and pyramid-shaped Bangladeshi stupa.