Contents:

• Iron in ancient Egyptian relics came from space
• Early Palaeolithic sites in Northern China
• Thousands of prehistoric artefacts returned to Greece
• Scouts restore Long Man of Wilmington
• First ever prehistoric fashion show announced
• Island off the Australian coast surveyed on ancient human life
• Climate change - prehistoric style
• Apulian dolmen under constant threat by vandals
• Why our early ancestors took to two feet
• Baby Neanderthal breast-fed for 7 months
• Bronze Age boat reconstruction is changing view of era
• Submerged structure in Sea of Galilee stumps archaeologists
• Did Japanese fishermen reach America 5000 years ago?
• Thousands of ancient cave paintings found in Mexico
• New insights on prehistoric dog burials

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 38:50]

Contents:

• Beaker burial ground uncovered in Scotland
• Indus civilization: a melting pot with powerful women
• Making of Europe unlocked by DNA
• Reconstruction of the face of an ancient Maltese woman
• Neanderthals were right handed
• 40,000 boxes of Neolithic artifacts locked in Turkish warehouse
• Astronomical alignment at Peruvian pyramid
• Neolithic Scotland investigations
• Use of fertilizers 5,000 years ago in Scandinavia
• Ancient burial chamber found in Oman
• First Australians may have been migrants

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 28:38]

Contents:

• Bronze Age evidence in the Norfolk Broads
• Flint-knapping can be child's work
• Iron Age graveyard discovered in France
• Oetzi needed a dentist
• Stonehenge occupied 5,000 years earlier than thought
• Burrup Peninsula rock art among world's oldest
• Iron Age artefacts found at Burrough Hill dig
• Pottery reveals Ice Age hunter-gatherers' taste for fish
• Ancient structure discovered beneath sea of Galilee
• Art, bodies found in ancient Indonesian caves
• 4000-year-old artifacts found in Bhopal
• Early Bronze Age settlement on Greek island of Keros
• Ancient mysteries revealed in Turkmenistan desert
• Climate change threatens Neolithic art
• Fraggle Rock petroglyphs, West Yorkshire

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 39:39]

Contents:

• Ancient Cornish monument threatened by cattle
• Trove of Neanderthal bones found in Greek cave
• Snowy landscape reveals Wales' ancient remains
• Bronze Age collection goes on display
• Ancient artifact lost in plain sight
• Afterlife of early Neolithic houses in Poland
• Unearthing ancient Sweden
• Holy Land farming began 5,000 years earlier than thought
• Disputed finds in South America more than 22,000 years old
• Migration to Marianas longest ocean-crossing in history
• Stone-Age skeletons unearthed in Sahara desert
• 'Stone ships' in Baltic were built by maritime groups
• Skulls of early humans carry signs of inbreeding
• Quarry dig unearths Neolithic settlement in Berkshire
• Donkeys were a Bronze Age status symbol/a>

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 39:12]

Contents:

• Maize was key in early Andean civilisation
• Police return smuggled Neolithic artefacts to Kosovo

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 10:51]

Contents:

• Dig in Micronesia pushes settlement back 3400 years
• Evolution and the Ice Age
• Bronze Age boat to be launched in Cornwall
• Prehistoric necropolis discovered in Romania
• Conservation work of a Macedonian site is under way
• Most Upper Paleolithic human burials were simple
• Piecing together the prehistory of the Himalayas
• Farming arrived in Europe with migrants
• Earlier Neanderthal demise suggested

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 18:46]

Contents:

• Amazing find in Dartmoor Bronze Age grave
• Prehistoric origins of skin decoration
• Did overhunting lead to domestication?
• A glimpse into 9,000 years of village life
• Soup making in the Stone Age
• Intact dolmen found in Switzerland
• Ancient rock art under threat in Paraguay

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 12:58]

Contents:

• Californian rock carvings recovered after theft
• Native Americans built massive mound in less than 90 days
• Guernsey Neolithic grave protection plan submitted
• Ancient rock art uncovered in the Scottish Highlands

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 12:58]

Contents:

• Clovis culture not wiped out by comet
• Oldest stone hand axes unearthed
• Early sweet potato trade
• Human skull found beneath Scottish golf course
• Archeologists revise image of ancient Celts
• 9,000-year-old remains discovered in England
• Loom weights reveal weaving in Turkey 2,500 years ago

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 13:42]

Contents:

• Ancient Chinese arrowhead found in Japan
• Campaign renewed to save Iron Age fort in Scotland
• Prehistoric headless skeleton unearthed in Cambridgeshire
• Indians 'broke Australian isolation 4,000 years ago'
• War was central to Europe's first civilisation
• 4,000-year-old shaman's stones discovered in Panama
• Baby bones found in ancient Italian village
• Neolithic remains discovered in Istanbul
• Prehistoric rock art site found in Western India
• Stone circle found at church in Northern England
• Storms expose Iron Age skeleton in Shetland
• Intact Neolithic floor surface uncovered in Cyprus
• Vietnamese caves occupied for over 11,000 years
• Mesolithic man should be re-named 'hunter-gatherer-farmer'
• Modern 'palaeo diet' not as good as the original

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 28:54]

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Contents:

• 2000 BCE cemetery unearhted in Oman
• Iron Age temple discovered near Jerusalem
• The Moorehead Circle - A cermonial machine
• Ancient burial rituals uncovered in Maryland
• 4,000-year-old spearheads found in Mexico
• Trojan pottery holds key to great Bronze Age collapse
• Human hands evolved for fighting
• Crisis in Syria has Mesopotamian precedent
• Stone smoking pipes overturns a century-old assumption
• Ancient caves and rock shelters under threat in Brazil
• Possible prehistoric site uncovered in northern Italy

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Contents:

• Crowds gather at Stonehenge and Newgrange to mark winter solstice
• Ancient humans cared for sick and disabled
• Oldest wood architecture found in Germany
• Prehistoric burial site unearthed in China
• Bronze Age surprise discovery in Suffolk
• Uncertain future of Sighthill stone circle
• Israeli archaeologists unearth 'elite' Stone Age society
• Fury at plan to move Cornish ancient stone
• New light on the Nazca Lines
• Archaeology in Oregon

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Contents:

• Iron Age feast found in England
• Ancient tsunami in the Caribbean
• Possible Mesolithic site on North York Moors
• Ancient civilization uncovered in Bulgaria
• Art of cheese-making dates back to the Neolithic
• Museum to examine remains found in Irish bog
• Bronze Age stone back after car crash
• Cavemen were better at drawing animals than modern artists
• Iron Age helmet found in England
• A new timeline for the building of Stonehenge

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 20:32]

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Contents:

• Ancient forts in Scotland at risk of being destroyed
• Bronze Age burial commemorated
• The world's oldest microbrewery
• Our poo can reveal more than you thought!
• Native American heritage vandalised
• Engraved stone from the Paleolithic era found in China
• Secrets of an Iron Age blacksmith
• 'Trust' provides answer to hand-axe enigma
• Stone Age nomads settled in West of England
• Early settlers migrated to Sicily during the last Ice Age
• Clues to Bronze Age woodland in Northern Scotland

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Contents:

• 10,000-year-old home unearthed in Scotland
• Early hominids had a taste for grass
• Hittites ahead of their time in dam building
• New path for ancient flood
• Nunnery dig in Britain uncovers Bronze Age arrowhead
• 3,000-year-old cemetery discovered in Pakistan
• Bronze Age axeheads X-rayed in Jersey
• Stone-tipped spears half a million years old
• One of the oldest hoards in Europe
• Neolithic monument unearthed in Cornwall

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 20:23]

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• First Polynesians arrived in Tonga 2,800 years ago
• Up the fjord without a paddle
• Ancient Temple Found in Israel
• Genetic tests prove that Oetzi was Central Europe native
• An 8,500-year-old murder mystery
• Excavations at the largest Neolithic site in China
• 'Oldest Mayan tomb' found in Guatemala
• Stone triumphs over wind

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 17:37]

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Contents:

• Priddy stone circles vandal ordered to pay £10,000
• Findings dating back to 6,000 BCE unearthed in Armenia
• Ancient tomb found at 'Sweden's Stonehenge'
• Neanderthals - Just like us?
• Muddy lake bed holds radiocarbon 'Rosetta stone'
• Salafists blamed for destroying Morocco stone carvings
• Ancient 'burnt mound' unearthed in Scotland
• Why Orkney is the centre of Neolithic Britain
• Prehistoric artefacts excavated in Israel
• Neanderthal trove in Madrid

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 19:22]

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Contents:

• Bronze Age discoveries at Cheeseman's Green, England
• Crete, 3500-year-old Minoan building found
• Oldest dental filling found in a Stone Age tooth
• Stonehenge scan reveals hidden rock art
• Danish textile history gets re-writtend
• Bronze Age pathway found along London's railway
• Europe's 'oldest urban settlement' found in Bulgaria
• Neolithic Houses are to be built at Stonehenge
• New insight into ancient Mesopotamian trade routes
• The nomadic horse worshippers of Kazakhstan

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 23:58]

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Contents:

• Restoration work begins on Giant's Quoit dolmen
• Early cannibalism tied to territorial defence?
• Archaeologists uncover remains of Stortford Henge
• Restoration of a fallen menhir in India
• Danish bog army revealed
• Secrets of ancient Bon religion uncovered

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 14:35]

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Contents:

• China excavations show initial appearance of the late Palaeolithic
• Stone Age skull-smashers spark cultural mystery
• Prehistoric rock art found in caves on Azores
• Earliest modern human fossil in Southeast Asia
• Indo-European languages originated in Anatolia
• Third figurine found in Orcadian dig
• Earliest British depiction of a boat discovered
• The enduring story of Silchester

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Contents:

• Mysteries of a Neolithic 'Death Pit' revealed
• Neolithic man: the first lumberjack?
• Modern culture emerged in Africa 40,000 years ago
• Flying Lasers reveal ancient buried structures
• Human evolution in Europe more complex than previously thought
• Doubts about hybridisation between humans and Neanderthals
• Climate change shaped ancient burial rituals
• Earliest 'matches' identified?
• Extraordinary human sculpture unearthed in Turkey
• Ancient sites studied from the air in Denmark
• Sitting down all day might not make you fat!

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 31:06]

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Contents:

• Prehistoric flutes date to 42,000 years ago
• Prague district yields evidence of 5500 BCE settlement
• Prehistoric twins discovered in Spain
• Stronger protection to Welsh cave art site after vandalism
• Sussex Bronze Age monument under threat
• Ice Age Scapa Flow mapped
• Popularity of rock art images shifted over time
• Anthropologists discover earliest form of wall art
• Bronze Age boat replica fails to float

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 18:34]

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Contents:

• 6,000-year-old settlement found in Ireland
• Ancient language discovered on tablets found in Turkey
• Analysis suggests France cave art is 'oldest'
• Neolithic burial discovered in Qatar
• How was Europe repopulated after Ice Age?
• Modern technology helps identify ancient Peruvian mounds
• Prehistoric animal remains discovered in Irish cave
• Ancient cairns found in Scotland on wind farm area
• Extinction of Australian megafauna explained
• Is this the first evidence of fire?
• Ancient buildings and fields found on Welsh island
• Palaeolithic rock art at risk in Egypt

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Contents:

• Worsley Man: hospital scanner probes Iron Age bog death
• Stone Age cartoons
• Artefacts show sophistication of ancient nomads
• Megalithic Indian burial complex unearthed
• Race to record ancient rock art in Texas
• Was graphic code a forerunner to writing?
• New human species or isolated tribe?
• Iron Age hillfort in Wiltshire to undergo major repairs
• Prehistoric monolith may be astronomically aligned
• Ancient skeleton found in Taiwan linked to Polynesia
• Survey in Scotland reveals cluster of ancient cairns
• Woolly mammoth carcass may have been cut into by humans
• Western Europe's 'earliest string instrument' found in Scotland
• Urn burial site discovered in southern India

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 28:21]

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Contents:

• Estonian students find Iron Age life smoky and cold
• Prehistoric stone row discovered in Wales
• Ancient jade tool baffles scientists
• Neanderthal mammoth hunters in Jersey?
• 4,000-year-old artifact found in Connecticut
• Underwater archaeology: The elusive Minoan wrecks
• 7,500-year-old fishing village found in Russia
• Early evidence of popcorn found in Peru
• Ancient geoglyphs found under Amazonian rainforest
• Haematite to colour ancient stones found in Scotland
• Seafaring in the Aegean: new dates
• Cave in Croatia yields oldest-known astrologer's board
• Ancient Sumerian fermented cereal beverage
• Oldest evidence of ploughing in the Czech Republic
• Stonehenge tunnel idea resurrected

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Contents:

• A new theory on the disappearance of Neanderthals
• Bronze Age boat to take to Cornish waters after 4,000 years
• Indian megalithic sites project begins
• Achill-Henge may be built over prehistoric site
• Ancient bones discovered on Milton Keynes building site
• 5,000-year-old pottery found on Scottish island
• Remains of prehistoric hut found in southern Texas
• Yorkshire appeal to save Iron Age Torcs
• Earliest modern human
• Rare ancient artefact found in Malta
• Stonehenge enters the 21st Century

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Contents:

• Stargazing at Irish stone circles
• 2,000 year-old cave paintings found in Mexico
• Mystery of the fulacht fiadh
• New German-Israeli center to study human evolution
• China's tomb raiders
• Ancient cave paintings found in Peru
• Yorkshire's ancient sites threatened by hikers and bikers
• Megalithic burial urn excavated in southern India
• Human remains from 450 BCE unearthed in a Nepalese cave
• Ancient burial chamber on Dartmoor restored
• Pendant could be the oldest found at open-air digs in Spain
• Oldest representation of the Tower of Babel
• Better view of Mississippi Indian mounds

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• Neolithic site discovered in northern China
• British heritage Minister gives protection to Mesolithic site
• Prehistoric artefacts unearthed at a country house in England
• Neanderthals built homes with mammoth bones
• Neolithic jade ring returned to Jersey
• Brain structures separate us from Neanderthals
• Scientists discover Oetzi's last meal
• 9,500-year-old spear point discovered in Iowa
• The enigmatic standing stones of Al-Rajajil
• 3,600-year-old high status structure found in China

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Contents:

• Bronze Age Britain revealed as never before
• Excavations in Serbia question early humans in Europe
• Our ancestors speak out after 3 million years
• Man faces jail for demolishing ancient Irish ring fort
• Archaeologists save Iron Age monument in England
• Cave yields oldest human remains ever found in Japan
• Evidence of 42,000 year old deep sea fishing revealed
• Bronze Age treasure returns to northern England
• Stone Age axe found on Cotswold 'shore line'
• Significance of Stonehenge pre-dates the famous stone circles?
• Monte 'e Prama ancient statues on display - at last!

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 23:56]

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• The mystery of the golden torcs
• Dowsing or guesswork?
• Bashed skull earliest evidence of human aggression?
• Sex Pistols' drawing as important as prehistoric art?
• Ancient Indus bones show gender discrimination
• Two large enclosures found near Knowth
• Oetzi may have smashed eye in fall
• How humans adapted to Ice Age climate change
• Israelis mapping Mount of Olives necropolis
• Bronze Age hoard goes on show in Wiltshire
• Ancient Bulgarian settlement destroyed by bulldozers
• Early Bronze Age cist excavated on Dartmoor
• Twigs help identifying a 'genuine Iron Age broch'

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