Audio News for August 2nd through the 8th, 2026

News items read by Laura Kennedy include:

• New excavations reveal how Moche potters lived and worked at Cerro Mayal (details)
• Sugar may have fueled human brain evolution, not just meat (details)
• Ancient DNA suggests Ice Age people hunted more female mammoths than males (details)
• Scattered bones may point to violence at a Roman villa in Britain (details) (details)