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- 12 minutes 24 secondsAudio News for November 30th through December 6th, 2025News 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)
- Excavation reveals traces of Tlatelolca people beneath Mexico City (details)
8 December 2025, 7:08 am - 13 minutes 37 secondsAudio News for November 23rd through the 29th, 2025News 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 III’s sarcophagus uncovered in another king’s tomb (details)
1 December 2025, 7:49 am - 12 minutes 27 secondsAudio News for November 16th through the 22nd, 2025News 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 silver cup shows one of the earliest cosmic maps (details)(details)
24 November 2025, 12:43 pm - 12 minutes 24 secondsAudio News for November 9th through the 15th, 2025News items read by Laura Kennedy include:17 November 2025, 12:57 pm
- 12 minutes 35 secondsAudio News for November 2nd through the 8th, 2025News 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) (details)
- Ice Age human activity discovered in Iberian highlands (details) (details)
10 November 2025, 9:03 am - 12 minutes 42 secondsAudio News for October 26th through November 1st, 2025News 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)
- New West African museum prompts discovery of artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin (details)details)
3 November 2025, 7:23 pm - 12 minutes 51 secondsAudio News for October 19th through the 25th, 2025News 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 (details) (details)
- Modern technologies reshape view of relationship between Australia’s early human and megafaunal inhabitants (details) (details)
27 October 2025, 5:42 pm - 14 minutes 39 secondsAudio News for October 12th through the 18th, 2025News 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 temporary capitol may have not happened (details)(details)
20 October 2025, 5:55 pm - 13 minutes 16 secondsAudio News for October 5th through the 11th, 2025News 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)
- Ancient Peruvian empire may have used psychedelic beer to build relationships (details)
13 October 2025, 6:06 am - 11 minutes 28 secondsAudio News for September 28th through October 4th, 2025News 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 change on Bronze Age societies and agriculture (details)(details)
6 October 2025, 12:28 pm - 12 minutes 6 secondsAudio News for September 21st through the 27th, 2025News 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 (details) (details)
- Advanced imaging helps researchers reconstruct the development of million-year-old human evolution in China (details) (details)
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