News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Flight missing for 74 years is finally located near Puerto Rico (details)
• Modern archaeological tools revise manner of death for sacrificed Inca children (details) (details)
• Basque Country cave paintings were designed with syntactic structure (details) (details)
• Ash study reveals 25,000 years of continuous use of cave for rituals by Aboriginal group (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Ancient Polynesian seafarers resumed migration because of major drought (details) (details)
• New study of mummies finds ancient Egyptian princesses wielded weapons (details) (details)
• Precolonial Brazilian communities used variety of subsistence strategies, including reliance on maize (details) (details)
• New study reexamines importance of Roman female farm managers (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Cave site in Turkey reveals cultural similarities between Neanderthals and early modern humans (details)
• 100,000-year-old facial wound may be earliest known incident of sharp-force violence (details) (details)
• Lost Pima Himeri village located alongside 17th-century Jesuit mission (details)
• New computational study estimates the majority of medieval chivalric literature has been lost (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Herculaneum scrolls reveal hidden Greek text (details)
• Ancient boat carvings suggest Atlantic links across Bronze Age Europe (details) (details)
• Ireland Bronze Age settlement may be among Europe’s earliest towns (details) (details)
• Early Americans specialized in hunting giant animals (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Newly discovered papal letter indicates support for Norman Conquest (details)
• Translation of Linear A links Minoan and Greek gods (details) (details)
• Pre-Hispanic Colombians collaboratively built water management systems (details) (details)
• Newly excavated Anatolian Church may be the site for the First Council of Nicaea (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• New excavations reveal how Moche potters lived and worked at Cerro Mayal (details)
• Sugar may have fueled human brain evolution, not just meat (details)
• Ancient DNA suggests Ice Age people hunted more female mammoths than males (details)
• Scattered bones may point to violence at a Roman villa in Britain (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Ancient Amazon civilization reshapes understanding of rainforest history (details) (details)
• Byzantine shipwreck yields remarkable gold treasure (details)
• Ghost DNA study uncovers unknown human ancestors (details) (details)
• Newly identified Assyrian kings reshape ancient royal history (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Possible all-female prehistoric burial deep in a South African cave system (details) (details)
• New study shows Neanderthals were genetically diverse prior to extinction (details) (details)
• First identification of ancient human DNA on cave walls (details) (details)
• Researchers find incredible Maya city with pyramid and stelae (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Ancient solar monument predates Stonehenge alignment (details)
• Hunter-gatherer burials reveal earliest known plague outbreak (details) (details)
• Archaeologists uncover evidence of large-scale fishing in the Canary Islands (details) (details)
• Second Alamo cannonball sheds light on famous 1836 battle (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Small clay figurine from Guatemala may contain the oldest written numbers in Mesoamerica (details) (details)
• New study argues for gradual, regionally-based development of “modern” humans (details) (details)
• Iron Age burial in northern Scotland reveals unusual manipulation of the dead (details) (details)
• 22,000-year-old jewelry from Spanish cave outlines Ice Age social networks (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Humans helped transport Stonehenge’s massive Altar Stone hundreds of kilometers (details) (details)
• South Africa cave extends timeline of human fire use by hundreds of thousands of years (details) (details)
• Researchers find three shipwrecks in Bahamas linked to Golden Age of Piracy (details)
• Mass burial shows Copper Age children experienced high rates of respiratory illness (details) (details)