News items read by Laura Kennedy include: <ul> <li>Humans helped transport Stonehenge’s massive Altar Stone hundreds of kilometers (<a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-06-stonehenge-altar-stone-epic-ancient.html">details</a>) (<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70080">details</a>)</li> <li>South Africa cave extends timeline of human fire use by hundreds of thousands of years (<a href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/06/ancient-humans-used-fire-nearly-1-8-million-years-ago-cave-evidence-suggests/158261">details</a>) (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347480">details</a>)</li> <li>Researchers find three shipwrecks in Bahamas linked to Golden Age of Piracy (<a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/first-shipwrecks-linked-to-real-pirates-of-the-caribbean-found-in-bahamas">details</a>)</li> <li>Mass burial shows Copper Age children experienced high rates of respiratory illness (<a href="https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/ancient-mass-grave-reveals-respiratory-disease-affected-most-children-nearly-5000-years-ago">details</a>) (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2026.04.001://phys.org/news/2026-05-anglosaxons-celts-vikings-dna-uncovers.html">details</a>)</li> </ul>