News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Engraved clay tile from Japan reveals details of an early Buddhist shrine (details) Radiocarbon and tree-ring dating upends the timeline of Iroquois and European contact (details) Neolithic burial from Sweden suggests plague hit Europe long before steppe people invaded (details) Medieval skeleton found in Thames dig, still wearing his thigh-high leather boots (details)
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include: Earthenware pagoda in Japan; questioning evidence of Iroquois-European contact; early plague in Sweden; and leather boots on Medieval London skeleton.