Stone Pages Archaeo News

• Stonehenge (used to be) sold to the highest bidder!
• Five-year-old boy finds Bronze Age arrowhead
• Teeth from China reveal early human trek out of Africa
• Iron Age settlement revealed in Devon
• Bronze Age graves give up their secrets
• Neolithic causewayed enclosure discovered in Oxfordshire
• Another sign of Neanderthal intelligence and resourcefulness
• Bronze Age Britons mummified their dead
• Prehistoric 'sauna house' unearthed in Orkney
• Sardinian menhir stolen and recovered
• Petroglyph in Spain marks when Atlantic and Mediterranean cultures met
• Bronze Age burial site discovered in Omsk
• Ancient site on Skye to be investigated
• Were Stone Age rituals really signs of witchcraft?

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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 27:28]

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• Temple culture of Malta

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Prehistoric pit discovered on Irish beach
• Early humans in Saudi Arabia were a diverse lot, says study
• Ancient Harappan reservoir dwarfs that of Mohenjo Daro
• Bronze Age palace and grave goods discovered in Spain
• Neanderthal human remains found in Normandy
• Cave paintings in Indonesia shatter theories about the origin of art
• Bronze Age knife discovered in Denmark
• Neolithic pottery found on Scilly Isles
• Armenian site challenges assumptions about human technology

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• The geoglyphs of Kazakhstan
• 43,000-year-old modern human settlement in Central Europe
• Iron Age bowl tells a grisly tale
• Earliest sign of human habitation in Canada
• Chinese boy discovers 3,000-year-old bronze sword
• 3,900 year old bone armour unearthed in Russia
• Underground scans show 17 new sites around Stonehenge
• Massive 5,000-year-old stone monument discovered in Israel
• Neolithic necropolis unearthed in Northern France
• Ancient boat and settlement found off Denmark's coast
• Possible Pre-Clovis artefacts found in Kansas
• Modern Man is not responsible for decline of Neanderthals
• Archaeologists discover Bronze Age wine cellar in Israel
• Kennewick Man looked Polynesian and came from far away

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Citizen archaeologists help rediscover British Bronze Age
• Technology boom 50,000 years ago correlated with less testosterone
• Ancient fragment of ivory is missing piece of animal figurine
• Schoolboy finds evidence of ancient conflict in Wales
• Spain tests limited visits to Altamira cave
• Earlier Stone Age artefacts found in South Africa
• Romanian cave holds some of oldest human footprints
• Ancient astronomy in northern Peru
• Road improvements lead to finds in Philadelphia
• Prehistoric henge found in Austria
• Early Clovis hunting ground discovered in Mexico

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Ancient log boats found in Irish lake
• 8,000-year-old skull found in Norway
• Discoveries shed light on Mesolithic and Early Neolithic in Denmark
• Prehistoric circle dated to same Seahenge neighbour
• Ancient erotic graffiti found on Aegean island
• Meteorite fragment discovered in a 9,000-year-old hut
• Neanderthals may have had plants in their diet
• Iron Age hillfort in Britain open to tourists
• Bronze Age bling: black stone, amber and shells
• Ancient burial with chariots discovered in Caucasus
• Archaeo-astronomy steps out from shadows of the past
• Scientists find 6,200-year-old parasite egg in ancient skeleton
• Mesolithic settlement found in north of England

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 40:46]

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• Carwynnen Quoit rebuild completed
• Ancient skull reveals secrets of Siberian society
• Melting Yukon ices reveals prehistoric treasures
• 45,000-year-old artefacts unearthed in Australia
• Celestial and landscape interactions of megalithic sites in Scotland
• DNA of first Near Eastern farmers sequenced
• 3,000-year-old remains of an infant found in Ireland

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Ancient tomb on Dartmoor gives up its secrets
• Vandals destroy prehistoric rock art in Libya
• Bronze Age settlement discovered near Aberdeen
• Northern Irish Mesolithic settlement lost
• Ancient standing stone at Hill of Tara vandalised
• 2,300-year-old false tooth found in France
• Success of early modern humans due to dog domestication
• World's oldest trousers are Chinese
• Stonehenge builders' homes re-created
• Students discover 7,000-year-old mummy in Chile
• Prehistoric hunting scenes unearthed in Spanish cave

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 23:17]

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• Bronze Age chronology revised by ancient weather report
• Prehistoric DNA paints more complex picture of human evolution
• 4,000-year-old pit houses found in Arizona
• New insights on ancient Portuguese horse engraving
• Vandals damage rock art in Northumberland
• Log boat dating back 4,500 years found in Ireland
• Evidence of first human settlers in Scotland
• Scottish standing stone returns to its age-old position

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• 'New' housing development at Stonehenge
• Excavation of Neolithic chambered tomb on Anglesey
• Earliest complete example of human cancer found
• European hunter-gatherers had blue eyes and dark skin
• Unveiling the secrets of Dutch 'Celtic fields'
• Recent research on prehistoric buildings near Liverpool
• Ancient pollen reveals how humans shaped forests
• Iron Age woman's footless body found in Wiltshire
• 3,000-year-old pottery kilns unearthed in Poland
• Bronze Age firepit discovered in north-east Wales

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Storms expose prehistoric human remains on Cornish beach
• Valdals hit Nine Ladies stone circle
• Striking find in Dartmoor Bronze age grave
• Sound and prehistoric art in caves
• The Ice Age occupants of a long submerged land bridge
• Climate change is the cause of decline in Indus Valley
• Altamira cave paintings opened to the public
• Ancient Los Angeles driven by its wetlands
• World's oldest cheese found in China

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Human ancestors at West Asian site deemed two species
• Cup marked stone discovered in Wales
• Iron Age Scandinavian settlement uncovered
• Firefighter's persistence leads to Palaeolithic find
• Neolithic bones discovered in Irish cave
• Ancient stone decorated on two sides found in Scotland
• Development danger to Iron Age hillfort

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Bronze Age skeleton removed from school playground
• Move to reunite Mungo Man with his Lady
• Neolithic altar discovered in China
• Bronze Age woman found in Highland woods
• Ancient Britons 'loved dairy food'
• 11,000-year-old settlement found under Baltic sea
• 3D modeling of Welsh megalithic sites
• Clovis skeleton reveals origins of Native Americans

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Ancient palace begins to be uncovered in Turkey
• 6,000 years of occupation in Alsace
• Dig reveals secrets of prehistoric Cambridge
• Donkey sanctuary threatens Bronze Age sites in Ireland
• Study solves a 3,000-year-old mystery with pollen
• Arminghall Henge in space and time
• Preparing for death in Bronze Age Scotland
• Fire setting at Stone Age Norwegian quarries
• Spear points raise questions about human arrival in North America

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Cemetery dating back more than 2500 years studied in Poland
• One of the oldest cases of tuberculosis discovered
• Early stone tool making more sophisticated than thought
• Ancient mural may be first picture of volcanic blast
• Extreme archaeology in the mountains of Wyoming
• New Stonehenge visitor centre

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Linguist reconstructs sounds of prehistoric language
• Excavations at the capital of a Bronze Age Canaanite kingdom
• Ancient Chinese wrote with brushes
• Jersey, home of the last Neanderthals?
• Archaeologists to restore dolmen In Cornwall
• Skull find rebuts multiple human species idea
• Neanderthals roamed with elk, bison east of Berlin
• Denisovans may have occupied Australia
• Bronze Age obsidian sources in Syria
• Frogs' legs: an English delicacy since 8000 BCE
• Women left their handprints on ancient cave walls

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• Early South Americans conquered the Atacama desert
• 3,000-year-old stone shields excavated in China
• Dig reveals evidence of ancient tsunami
• 3,000-year-old spice trade in Israel
• Prehistoric meteorite 'shrines' in Arizona may be linked
• Lough Gur Heritage Centre redeveloped
• Excavation of a prehistoric settlement in Quebec
• Prehistoric Europeans spiced up their food
• Stone circle discovered in Ukraine
• Handaxe design reveals distinct Neanderthal cultures
• Iron Age hill fort under threat in Shropshire
• The elusive chalk carvings of Wanborough
• Ancient Egyptian brewery recreated in 3D

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 30:37]

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• Excavation and events at The Hurlers stone circle
• World's oldest temple may have been built to worship Sirius
• Set of 5000-year-old board game pieces discovered in Turkey
• Human presence in Cuba 10,000 years ago
• Project to protect Indian megalithic sites
• Irish 'bog body' said to be world's oldest
• Neolithic engraved stone discovered in Scotland
• Ancient campsite discovered along Minnesota River
• Ice core data supports ancient space impact
• A drowned world off north west coast of Australia
• Neolithic 'halls of the dead' found in England
• Evidence of human presence on Thames in 7,000 BCE
• Carved ball found at the Ness of Brodgar dig
• Tomb of ancient noblewoman discovered in Russia
• The ancient secrets of the Lesser Cyclades

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 29:09]

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• Possible discovery of forerunner to Chinese language
• Epigravettian remains found in France
• Could we have communicated with Neanderthals?
• Ice Age figurine's head found in Germany
• Manure used by Europe's first farmers 8,000 years ago

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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• 6,000 year old carved wooden post found in Wales
• Remains of pre-Ashokan shrines in Nepal
• Earliest Middle Palaeolithic stone tools in India
• Volunteers to map ancient hill forts
• 'New Stonehenge' tourist attraction proposed
• The world's first calendar discovered in Scottish field
• Painted bronze excavated from central China tombs
• Protein analysis sheds new light on Oetzi
• Mammoths may not have been hunted only for food
• Harappan-era site bigger and older than Mohenjo-daro?
• Ancient rock art maps cosmological belief
• Prehistoric flint mines discovered in Poland
• Farming in Iran 12,000 years ago

Speaker: David Connolly (BAJR)
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 Listen to the weekly Archaeo News [Total time 29:52]