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)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Forensic archaeologists seek to unmask Namibia’s colonial-led genocide (details)
• Ancient beds in South African cave show a glimpse of stone-age life (details) (details)
• DNA study in Peru unveils pre-Inca migration and marriage trends (details) (details)
• New DNA studies in Britain explore reality of historical impacts from Vikings and others (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Archaeologists investigate the Great Pyramid’s resilient engineering (details) (details)
• Prehistoric megastructure found in small Romanian settlement (details)
• Ancient Mesoamericans used ritual transformations to connect to divine beings (details) (details)
• Archaeologists use medical kit to identify doctor among Pompeii’s victims (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Study argues horse domestication and riding began earlier than believed (details) (details)
• Neanderthal tooth shows possible dental treatment 59,000 years ago (details) (details)
• Researchers challenge study that questioned Monte Verde antiquity (details)
• Restoration project reveals size of Amphipolis tomb (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Four new crew member identifications made from Arctic Franklin Expedition (details) (details)
• Maya highly valued dogs and traded them across long distances (details) (details)
• Australia presents earliest evidence of heat-treated chert for knapping (details) (details)
• Revised photography method helps uncover timber base of island in Scottish loch (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Patagonian burial site shows earlier habitation along the Atlantic coast of South America (details)
• Genetic research in Germany points to smaller-scale migrations of northerners after Roman rule. (details) (details)
• New evidence ties the origins of bread wheat to ancient Caucasus (details)
• Shamash Gate in Nineveh shows evidence of ancient and modern battles (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Papyrus fragment of the Iliad found inside Egyptian mummy (details)
• DNA study reveals population movements across Southern Cone (details) (details)
• Major settlement complex uncovered along Czech rail route (details)
• Study finds multiple factors behind Neanderthal extinction (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Ancient lakeshore charcoal remains indicate hominins used driftwood as fuel source (details) (details)
• Precolonial Bolivian mummy shows evidence of scarlet fever (details) (details)
• Ancient megastructure in Romania shows power of communal leadership (details) (details)
• Early humans deliberately made tools with geological features (details) (details)">details)">details)">details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• Isotopic analysis illuminates 10,000-year European gender gap in meat consumption (details) (details)
• Ancient humans ran stone factory for 100,000 years (details) (details)
• Ancient DNA reveals population collapse in northern France near the end of the Neolithic (details) (details)
• Ancient Maya architecture reveals shift in style of governance (details) (details)

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• New Radiocarbon Dates Push Mohenjo-daro Back to 3300 BC- Rivaling the Earliest Cities of Egypt and Mesopotamia (details) (details)
• ative Americans were making dice, gambling, exploring probability millennia before their Old World counterparts (details) (details)
• Lost mosaic reveals first image of female beast-fighter from the Roman era (details) (details)
• Shroud of Turin may have Indian origin, DNA analysis suggests (details) (details)