<description>News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
                  &lt;ul&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Medieval stone catapult balls found at Kenilworth Castle
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/8-stone-catapult-shots-linked-to-king-henry-iii-discovered-at-besieged-british-castle"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Sweet find in the cellars of Mount Vernon
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13535613/archeologists-discovery-george-washington-mount-vernon-estate-virginia.html"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Protein analysis reveals human blood in plaster used on royal tomb in Benin
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/royal-tomb-in-benin-has-traces-of-human-blood-on-its-walls-hinting-at-human-sacrifice-study-finds"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Remains of Celtic people at Swiss site show violent death, probably in a bridge collapse
                  (&lt;a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-06-victims-tsunami-human-sacrifice-celts.html#google_vignette"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;/ul&gt;
                  
                  </description>

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Stone catapult balls in England; intact bottles of preserves at Mount Vernon; human blood in West African plaster; and Celtic human remains with collapsed bridge in Switzerland.


Audio News for June 16th through the 22nd, 2024

<description>News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
                  &lt;ul&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Dietary evidence shows how a Bronze Age city in Syria survived
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2024-06-12/ty-article-magazine/archaeology-reveals-how-a-town-in-syria-survived-the-bronze-age-collapse-of-civilizations/00000190-0634-da02-a1dc-fe7f623d0000"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Glass beads reveal Indigenous American trade networks
                  (&lt;a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-06-glass-beads-indigenous-americans-early.html"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)(&lt;a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/tracking-glass-beads-communities-and-exchange-relationships-across-the-atlantic-in-the-seventeenth-century/FD4BEDFB6E7910349E2480061C9180BE"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;New evidence shows where survivors of Vesuvius eruption resettled
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/evidence-of-more-than-200-survivors-of-mount-vesuvius-eruption-discovered-in-ancient-roman-records"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Dating for the world’s oldest wooden sculpture
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/shigir-idol-worlds-oldest-wood-sculpture-has-mysterious-carved-faces-and-once-stood-17-feet-tall"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)(&lt;a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/early-art-in-the-urals-new-research-on-the-wooden-sculpture-from-shigir/1EE151AB1E571968B10267E48B78362A"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;/ul&gt;
                  
                  </description>

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Bronze Age city in Syria; Indigenous American glass beads; survivors of Vesuvius; and world’s oldest wooden sculpture.

Audio News for June 9th through the 15th, 2024

<description>News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
                  &lt;ul&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Cooking techniques of Mongolian nomads revealed
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Bronze-Age-cuisine-of-Mongolian-nomads.html"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-60607-4"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Woman warrior uncovered among 25 warrior monks in Spain
                  (&lt;a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-06-body-woman-warrior-monks-calatrava.html"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/06/female-burial-found-among-23-warrior-monks-of-the-order-of-calatrava-in-guadalajara/152160"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-61792-y"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Prehistoric South American rock art served as possible territory markers
                  (&lt;a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-06-documents-world-largest-prehistoric-art.html"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.newsweek.com/map-what-world-largest-rock-engravings-may-mean-1907664"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/monumental-snake-engravings-of-the-orinoco-river/147F83AA4381153C4D0F4EA4817B3766"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Study proposes that Seahenge was built to extend the warm weather
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/05/study-suggests-seahenge-was-built-to-control-climate-change/152127"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)
                  (&lt;a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-024-11088-5"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;/ul&gt;
                  
                  </description>

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Monglian cauldrons and blood sausage; female warrior monk in Spain; huge South American rock art; and new Seahenge interpretation.

Audio News for June 2nd through the 8th, 2024

<description>News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
                  &lt;ul&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt; 4,000 year old tablet reveals Anatolian business plan
                  (&lt;a href="https://arkeonews.net/anatolias-first-company-was-founded-4000-years-ago-with-15-kilos-of-gold/"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)(&lt;a href="https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/first-company-anatolia-0020850"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Ancient Egyptians may have performed cancer-treating surgeries
                  (&lt;a href="https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/ancient-egypt-cancer-treatment-skull/"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)(&lt;a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2024.1371645/full"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Characteristics of prehistoric Central European burial mounds may indicate trends in inequality
                  (&lt;a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-05-largest-burial-mound-differences-upper.html"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)(&lt;a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03053-x"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;Seven-century-old ceremonial offerings recovered at Mexico’s Tlatelolco Archaeological Zone
                  (&lt;a href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/05/stone-box-containing-rare-ceremonial-offerings-discovered-at-tlatelolco/152061"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)(&lt;a href="https://arkeonews.net/rare-ceremonial-knives-offering-discovered-in-the-great-basement-of-tlatelolco-mexico/"&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;/ul&gt;
                  
                  </description>

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Ancient tablet records first Anatolian company; cancer surgery in ancient Egypt; inequality study examines Central European burial mounds; and ceremonial offerings in ancient Mexico City temple.

Audio News for May 26th through June 1st, 2024

The news of the week in audio, for many years compiled and written by the late Michelle Hilling of Archaeologica, is now the product of our dedicated volunteer team. Read by Laura Kennedy, the Audio News is compiled from Archaeologica’s daily news updates. The musical interludes are original compositions by Anthony Kennedy. The Audio News from Archaeologica is compiled from Archaeologica.org's daily news updates.

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