News items read by Laura Kennedy include: <ul> <li>Indonesian island of Sulawesi holds world’s oldest cave art almost 70,000 years old (<a href="https://theconversation.com/humanitys-oldest-known-cave-art-has-been-discovered-in-sulawesi-273364">details</a>)(<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09968-y">details</a>)</li> <li>Oldest elephant-bone tool in Europe shows early human technological ability (<a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/archaeology/elephant-bone-tool-hammer-archaeology-england-b2904061.html">details</a>)(<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adw3020">details</a>)</li> <li>Ancient remains extend timeline of bacteria related to syphilis by more than 3,000 years (<a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-01-year-skeleton-yields-oldest-evidence.html">details</a>)(<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adw3020">details</a>)</li> <li>Ancient mass burial in Jordan shows how massive plague reveals migration patterns (<a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ancient-jordan-mass-grave-reveals.html">details</a>)</li> </ul>