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Audio News for October 4th through the 10th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Ancient Viking temple in Norway; masked clay figurine in western Siberia; human cells preserved by Vesuvius eruption; and inhospitable Bering Sea island.
Audio News for September 27th through October 3rd, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Land management in ancient Amazonia; sequence of Caribbean Islands settlement; the long view of human effects on ecosystems; and New Mexico’s 1680 Pueblo Revolt.
Audio News for September 20th through the 26th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Rare Shakespeare volume in Spanish library; exhibit on 400th anniversary of Mayflower sailing; mummified Egyptian birds were wild; and city in northern Turkey much older than expected.
Audio News for September 6th through the 12th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Date fruit produced from 200-7ear-old seeds; drone finds Kansas earthwork; literacy in ancient Israel; and why culture lagged behind human physical development.
Audio News for August 30th through September 5th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Sea-bottom cult offerings off Israeli coast; ancient storms contributed to Maya decline; new take on Easter Island population decline; and face-down burials and European epidemics.
Audio News for August 23rd through the 29th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Illegal Sudan gold mining destroys sites; imported pet monkeys from India found in Egypt; prehistoric musical instruments in southern Africa; and well dressed mummies in northern Chile.
Audio News for August 16th through the 22nd, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: 500,000 year old site in England; early humans on eastern Indonesian island; historical Black cemeteries in the US; and early stone monuments in Saudi Arabia.
Audio News Special Edition for August 16, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Signs of world's earliest epidemic found in China; archaeological evidence puts pandemic effects into historical perspective; how ancient African societies coped with epidemics; and epidemics revealed in human teeth.
Audio News for August 2nd through the 8th, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Fluted points from Arabia; intact Inca offerings in Lake Titicaca; Australian mining company apologizes; and Northern Ireland’s Navan Fort.
Audio News for July 26th through August 1st, 2020
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/ancient-teeth-show-history-of-epidemics-is-much-older-than-we-thought/2020/07/24/4f18ed94-b641-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_epidemichistory-345pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans