Contents:

• 7000-year-old bricks discovered in China
• Bronze Age ritual stone enclosure unearthed in Italy
• The seeds of written communication on cave walls
• Megalithic site found in South Sumatra
• Primitive humans conquered sea, finds in Crete suggest
• Many objectors to bypass near Irish prehistoric sites
• Archaeological dig in grounds of a Cambridgeshire college
• Orkney Islands Council cash for archaeology projects

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 21:05]

Contents:

• Bronze Age shipwreck found off Devon coast
• New tool improves accuracy of radiocarbon dating
• Sea levels erratic during latest Ice Age
• Could Neanderthals live again?
• Scrub clearance at Old Sarum
• Stone Age Siberians settled in Greenland
• Ancient tree carving in California may point to the stars
• Stonehenge proposed centre heavily criticized
• 8,000-year-old skeleton unearthed in Malaysia
• Stonehenge 'hedge' found, shielded ancient rituals?
• Danish bog woman given a face

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 20:39]

Contents:

• Iron Age settlement unearthed in Kent
• A thousand new sites discovered off the British coast
• Skeleton of western man found in ancient Mongolian tomb
• Prehistoric archaeological project in Dorset gets lottery grant
• Last Neanderthals in Europe died out 37,000 years ago
• Amputation is evidence of medical knowledge in the Neolithic
• 5th Megalithomania Conference
• Evening walks at Stonehenge

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 18:26]

Contents:

• Zimbabwe's prehistoric paintings show the past and a celebration of life
• Motorway bypass would run close to Newgrange
• Stonehenge visitor centre finally approved
• Iron Age adventures in England
• Iron Age treasure on display in Edinburgh
• Search for an ancient settlement in Southern Spain
• 3,000-year-old remains of a woman found in California
• Stanton Drew circle older than thought
• Seahenge set to be complete

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 16:43]

Contents:

• Neanderthal 'make-up' containers discovered
• Excavations at an Iron Age site in Suffolk
• Ancient hominids may have been seafarers
• Rare sheep killed at Flag Fen
• Archaeologists claim discovery of oldest Hebrew writing
• Brockdorff Circle report literally rewrites Maltese history
• Deal signed to protect ancient art in Utah canyon
• Early human remains found in Vietnam
• Ancient monument found on North York Moor
• Method found to read 30,000-year-old DNA
• Neolithic stonewares discovered in Tibet

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 24:14]

Contents:

• Campaign launched to save ancient Irish monuments
• Coso Petroglyphs: a lesser known Californian marvel
• Researchers germinate 4,000-year-old seed
• Exploring the Stone Age pantry
• Power work in Yorkshire Dales turns up Iron Age site
• Submerged man-made structures discovered off Orkney
• Bronze Age burial discovered alongside new Irish road
• Astronomers celebrate at Stonehenge
• French find puts humans in Europe 200,000 years earlier
• 4,000-year-old flowers found at Scottish Bronze Age dig
• Modern humans colonized Tibetan plateau 21,000 years ago
• Mystery of the Narara caves in Fiji

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Contents:

• Ancient Pacific islanders brought to light
• A new method for absolute dating of Rock Art
• Iron Age dump on Skye threatened by erosion
• Evidence of Australia's first human occupation found
• The mysterious Plain of Jars
• Winter soltsice events at Newgrange
• New study on the diffusion of maize to the USA
• Ancient artifacts found on University of Washington's greenhouse
• No evidence for a meteorite impact 13,000 years ago
• Early Ohioans tracked solstices
• Ancient volcano's devastating effects confirmed

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Contents:

• Oslo is older than previously thought
• Signs of mass cannibalism in the Neolithic
• French immigrants founded first British farms
• China had bronze early on
• Canadian prehistoric site can be saved
• 4,000-year-old grave unearthed in Iraq
• Ancient gold unearthed in southern Hungary
• Sound waves and ancient Maltese temples
• Lectures at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum
• Cup-marked boulder dumped because 'awkward to drive around'
• Britain cut off from Europe by ancient 'super-river'
• Paleolithic cave painting found in Central India

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Contents:

• Bronze Age findings unearthed near Moscow
• Ancient hunters not to blame for driving mammoths to extinction
• Hunters' remains earliest known in Scotland
• Early humans may have been 'hobbits', scientists say
• Valley in Jordan irrigated for 13,000 years
• Indus Valley's civilisation 'had first sophisticated exchange system'
• Protest over hill fort land sale in Britain
• Archaeologists to study Bronze Age barrow in West Sussex
• Ancient stone moved from archaeological site in Cyprus
• Europe's largest rondel enclosures unearthed in Bohemia
• Expert says ancient art was 'an instinct'

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 24:53]

Contents:

• Additional details on 'dugong' prehistoric ritual site
• Oregon caves yield evidence of continent's first inhabitants
• Ancient weapons factory unearthed in Leicestershire
• Iron Age burial mound found in the Netherlands
• Prehistoric burial ground discovered on Skye
• Novice metal detector man discovers treasure hoard in Scotland
• Father and son cleared of illegal treasure hunting in England
• Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 18:23]

Contents:

• Nazcas' destruction of forests caused downfall
• Expert uncovers celestial connection in desert US Southwest
• Possible Bronze Age burial site discovered in Oxford
• 11th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium
• Fallen standing stone found in Cornwall
• Mesolithic flint found by 11-year-old boy in England
• Bronze Age cattle travelled long distances
• Extinct bison could rewrite Canadian archaeological record
• The oldest 'continuously inhabited' place in Britain?
• Evidence of human habitation on Trinidad 7000 years ago
• Neanderthals and modern humans got together

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 27:27]

Contents:

• World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years
• Prehistoric burial site unearthed in Suffolk
• Ancient settlements unearthed in Sri Lanka
• Bronze Age arrowhead discovered in England
• A 200,000-year-old cut of meat
• Edmonton archeological dig uncovers ancient campsite
• Archaeologist recreates ancient brews
• The mysteries of La Hougue Bie site in Jersey
• Tribe wants Ohio mound protected from wind farm
• Neolithic axe unearthed in India

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 20:06]

Contents:

• Traces of a stone circle discovered near Stonehenge
• Japan's Jomon sculptures are still a mystery
• Visitors littering Burren with mini-dolmens
• Remains of world's oldest human brain found in Armenia
• Japan's oldest stone tools found
• Prehistoric axe head unearthed in India
• Completion of the Choirokoitia digs for 2009
• Neolithic axehead found near Norwich
• Chilean family finds millennia-old human bones in yard
• Mesolithic village found off the coast of the Isle of Wight
• Network of 3,000-year-old canals discovered in Arizona

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 22:57]

Contents:

• 5,000-year-old Venus figure found in Turkey
• Funding crisis could cost Flag Fen its future
• Scottish town puts its past on display
• Dayschool - Neolithic and Bronze Age Yorkshire: Recent Work
• Prehistoric dugong worship site discovered in UAE
• New archaeological sites discovered on Exmoor
• Scandinavians are descended from Stone Age immigrants
• Human ancestors conflicted on monogamy
• Fridgehenge
• 3,300-year-old site discovered in Sri Lanka
• Dolmen with petroglyphs found in India
• Lectures by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 19:35]

Contents:

• Orkney dig gives clear picture of life in Neolithic Britain
• 'Whicker Man' tomb to yield Bronze Age secrets
• 4,500-year-old arrowhead found in Burren excavation
• Orcadian carving may represent human eyes and eyebrows
• Rice existed 4,000 years ago in Yangtze basin
• Excavation on Iron Age hilllort in Cheshire
• Iron Age remains found at port site in Essex
• Huge cult complex unearthed in Bulgaria
• Controversial motorway in Ireland is 90% complete
• British monuments part of an ancient navigational aid?
• Caterthuns hillforts are part of a single entity
• Archaeologists fight to get back Neolithic Indian artifacts

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 24:48]

Contents:

• Stonehenge visitor centre looks 'cheap and nasty'
• Iron Age roundhouse unearthed at Scottish farm
• Oldest-known fiber materials discovered in Georgia
• Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin
• Stone figurine unearthed at Çatalhöyük
• Ancient Peruvian remains uncovered
• Excavations report from Cyprus
• Fossil find in Georgia challenges theories on early humans
• Cumbrian museum acquires Bronze Age treasure
• Destruction at archaeological sites following Dakar Rally
• Ancient site in Guernsey could be fenced off
• Fairy tales have ancient origin

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 28:58]

Contents:

• Rock shelter yields rare proof of early Ohioans
• Dogs first tamed in China - To be food?
• Europe's first farmers replaced their forerunners
• 3,700-year-old fortification uncovered in Israel
• Europe's oldest axes discovered
• Iron Age history day on North Yorks Moors
• Port threat to Irish passage tombs
• Scottish Bronze Age boat proves a handful for volunteers
• Cavern dig in England uncovers 15,000-year-old weapon
• £150,000 for the Wiltshire Heritage Museum

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 25:13]

Contents:

• Artefacts uncovered during roadworks give hints on early Irish life
• British caves give up more secrets
• Racing against time to save prehistoric Orkney site
• Unearthing Bronze Age Dartmoor
• Temple shelters in Malta 'enhance visitors' experience'
• Tiny ancient shells point to earliest fashion trend
• Exploration into how prehistoric Italians made their living
• The enigmatic stone mounds of Alabama
• Ancient burial mounds to be razed in Bahrain
• Spear tip sheds light on ancient people in Arizona
• Clues to a prehistoric raid from skeletons at a German site
• A Celt in China: the mysterious origins of Cherchen Man
• Land of the Standing Stones

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 36:52]

Contents:

• Spanish prehistoric sites in danger
• The mystery of Nigerian Nok culture
• Earliest image of a human discovered in Scotland
• China's founding legend may not be true
• Coastal damage by early inhabitants
• 3,000-year-old butter found in Irish bog
• Did ancient humans cause the extinction of the pygmy hippo?
• Clues to Caribbean's earliest inhabitants
• Ancient stone artwork discovered in Scotland
• 16,000-year-old figurine unearthed in Turkey
• Early land-clearing may have altered global climate
• Additional information on the timber circle found in Tyrone
• Ground broken for new park at ancient Miami Circlee
• 4,000-year-old tomb found empty on Exmoor
• Australia's first astronomers

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 31:40]

Contents:

• 5,000 year-old sites found in Derry
• Massive Neolithic building unearthed in Orkney dig
• Neolithic stone axehead discovered in Scotland
• 5,000-year-old spear point found by a boy in Florida
• Early humans used fire to engineer tools from stone
• Prehistoric skeleton found near hillfort in Derbyshire
• London's earliest timber structure found
• Unique Bronze Age burial uncovered in Scotland
• Memorial planned to Bronze Age man
• Prehistoric Czech people had contact with Black Sea area
• Early Bronze Age artefacts discovered in Prague

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 23:50]

Contents:

• Bronze Age burials eroding in Northumberland
• Archaeologists reveal cannibalism link to early Britons
• Cuneiform tablets found in 2,700-year old Turkish temple
• Engraved map from 14,000 years ago discovered in Spain
• 13 ancient burial sites, temples unearthed in Lebanon
• Ancient burial ground gets national designation in California
• Calls for remains to be returned to Stonehenge
• Array of archaeological sites and finds uncovered in Ireland
• Bronze Age settlement discovered in Hungary
• Skara Brae and other coastal sites threatened by erosion
• Domestic dog origins challenged
• New study on Flores 'hobbits'
• 8,000-year-old human skeleton found in Turkey

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 25:48]

Contents:

• Ancient warrior's skeleton found near Rome
• Study into hidden history of Pendle Hill in Lancashire
• Welsh hillfort comes to life
• In search of prehistoric settlements off the coast of Florida
• 5,000 year-old circular site discovered in Northern Ireland
• Remains of an ancient paraplegic found in Vietnam
• Caithness broch centre opened
• 40,000-year-old human bone found off the Dutch coast
• Prehistoric hut gives clues to ancient Alp life
• Human population expanded during Late Stone Age
• Findings of hill fort project unveiled in Buckinghamshire
• 3,000-year-old ax found by an 8-year-old child in Maryland
• New device traces archaeological finds fast
• Digging archaeology along a pipeline in Nebraska

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 26:10]

Contents:

• Oetzi's tattoos came from fireplace
• Megalithic burial site excavated in India
• Neanderthals were few and poised for extinction
• Cave record of Britain's pioneers
• New findings on ancient snake cult in UAE
• News from Flag Fen
• Children find ancient bones at Irish golf club
• Dental wear establishes when hominids lived at sites
• Isotope analysis dates ancient Mexican
• Bronze Age sanctuary discovered in Bulgaria
• Ancient dwelling unearthed at Isle of Man airport
• Stone rings unearthed at prehistoric sites in Java

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 26:19]

Contents:

• Africa's oldest ceramic unearthed in Mali
• Danish students uncover hundreds of Iron Age remains
• Underwater exploration seeks evidence of early Americans
• Gristhorpe Man slowly gives up his secrets
• 15 new prehistoric sites found in Java
• Illness brought down early human rival
• Mesolithic human traces discovered in Romania
• Switzerland proposes underwater UNESCO sites
• Ancient supervolcano's eruption caused severe winters
• Festival of British archaeology (18th July - 2nd August 2009)

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 17:32]

Contents:

• Oldest human settlement in Aegean unearthed
• Excavation of a Bulgarian Neolithic site
• Models of earliest vehicles found in Turkmenistan
• Bronze Age finds during road construction in Ireland
• Ancient well and body found in Cyprus
• Rare petroglyphs discovered in Cuban caves
• Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known
• Possible Bronze Age roundhouse found in Cornwall
• The first Europeans were cannibals
• Intact ancient tomb uncovered in Bethlehem
• Obsidian 'trail' shows how humans settled in Russian islands
• Food storage began well before farming
• Pagans, partygoers greet solstice at Stonehenge
• Archaelogists find Neolithic grave in Serbia
• Prehistoric European cave artists were female

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 22:16]

Contents:

• Damage to prehistoric monuments in Northern Ireland
• New discovery of Neolithic jade culture in China
• Stone circle in East Anglian village?
• Iron Age bodies found in pit on road in England
• New details on the prehistoric necropolis discovered in Kerala
• Ancient hunting camp may lie at bottom of Lake Huron
• Excavation uncovers Bronze Age burial mound in Wales
• Archaeological dating by re-firing ancient pots
• Neolithic discoveries in Abu Dhabi
• Stones, snakes and sun - Summer Solstice in Brittany
• Prehistoric mounds under threat near Dublin

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 21:19]

Contents:

• Prehistoric sites discovered in India
• Galway may have had 'major' ancient settlement
• Larger populations triggered Stone Age learning
• 13,000-year-old carved bone discovered in Florida
• Suspected chambered tomb unearthed in Orkney
• Ancient artefacts found in West Yorkshire
• Two prehistoric tombs unearthed in Hampshire
• New 'molecular clock' aids dating human migrations
• Mammoths roasted in prehistoric kitchen pit
• Hell Gap dig underway again in Wyoming
• Chinese pottery may be earliest ever found
• Ancient humans knew sustainable fishing

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 25:26]

Contents:

• Rising seas could spell doom for Orkney islands
• Site in Pennsylvania gives clues to early civilization
• Ancient tombs being restored in Mallorca
• 'Kelp highway' theory proposed for coast settlement
• Miami Circle site may soon open as park
• Skeleton found in India pushes back leprosy's origins
• Gypsum Cave in Nevada holds glimpses of the past
• Middle East oldest village unearthed in Iran
• Bronze Age road found in Wales
• Ancient irrigation system unearthed in Arizona

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Contents:

• Evidence of prehistoric humans in India
• Controversy over cleaning of ancient art in Utah
• Prehistoric trans-Atlantic crossings: fact or fiction?
• New visitor centre opens at Creswell Crags
• Mesolithic tool unearthed by 9-year-old schoolboy
• Prehistoric cave found in southwest China
• Five-year plan for Maltese megalithic temples
• World's oldest beads older than previously thought
• Prehistoric spear tip found in Slovenia
• Ancient artifact unearthed in Massachusetts
• 'Hobbit' foot like no other in human fossil record
• Archaeologists uncover ancient site in Maryland

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 18:17]

Contents:

• Face of the first European reconstructed by scientists
• Major dig at earliest Scots site
• Archaeologist bemoans looting in Arkansas
• DNA confirms Native Americans descended from a single group
• China's earliest known carving found
• Vandal damage to cave paintings in Lybia

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