News items read by Laura Kennedy include:
                <ul>
                <li>Cave site in Turkey reveals cultural similarities between Neanderthals and early modern humans
                (<a href="https://www.sci.news/archaeology/neanderthal-homo-sapiens-cultural-continuity-14904.html">details</a>)</li>
                <li>100,000-year-old facial wound may be earliest known incident of sharp-force violence
                (<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/roughly-100000-years-ago-this-man-got-stabbed-in-the-face-and-survived-hes-likely-one-of-the-first-known-victims-of-an-attack-by-a-sharp-weapon-180989103/">details</a>)
                (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-58670-0">details</a>)</li>
                <li>Lost Pima Himeri village located alongside 17th-century Jesuit mission
                (<a href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/07/discovery-of-lost-pima-village-reveals-indigenous-resistance-in-colonial-mexico/158539">details</a>)</li>
                <li>New computational study estimates the majority of medieval chivalric literature has been lost
                (<a href="https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/study-suggests-up-to-60-of-medieval-chivalric-stories-and-more-than-95-of-their-manuscripts-have-been-lost">details</a>)
                (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag207">details</a>)</li>
                </ul>
                
                

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Cave reveals cultural similarity in Neanderthals and modern humans; 100,000-year-old facial wound; lost Indigenous village alongside Jesuit mission; and most chivalric literature has been lost.

Audio News for July 5th through the 11th, 2026

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