News items read by Laura Kennedy include: <ul> <li>Small clay figurine from Guatemala may contain the oldest written numbers in Mesoamerica (<a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ancient-clay-figurine-guatemala-oldest.html">details</a>) (<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/laq.2025.10146">details</a>)</li> <li>New study argues for gradual, regionally-based development of “modern” humans (<a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-06-human-evolution-messy-gradual-abrupt.html">details</a>) (<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109981">details</a>)</li> <li>Iron Age burial in northern Scotland reveals unusual manipulation of the dead (<a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-000-years-ago-in-scotland-people-removed-a-corpses-brain-and-fashioned-the-arm-bones-into-tools">details</a>) (<a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10353">details</a>)</li> <li>22,000-year-old jewelry from Spanish cave outlines Ice Age social networks (<a href="https://greekreporter.com/2026/06/10/jewelry-ice-age-social-networks-spain/">details</a>) (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0351170">details</a>)</li> </ul>