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Welcome to program 406 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA.

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted:

  1:40 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:52 MFSK32: Voice of America reactivates Persian service
  5:07 MFSK64: Neandertal fingerprint has been found in Spain
10:09 MFSK64: This week's images
28:28 MFSK32: Closing announcements

 

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From Radioinfo Asia:

Voice of America abruptly reactivates Persian service amid
Israel-Iran conflict

18 June 2025

The US government-funded Voice of America has suddenly recalled
its Persian-language staff from administrative leave, the US
Agency for Global Media said on [June 13].

Several dozen employees, sidelined since March under a directive
from the Trump administration, were told to return to work
"effective immediately" to boost Farsi programming amid the
Israel–Iran crisis.

The recall represents a significant reversal for the broadcaster,
which had its operations drastically reduced when the Trump
administration implemented major cutbacks in March 2025.

Prior to the March cutbacks, VOA broadcast four or more hours of
"Persian-language programming to Iran" every day.

The VOA website said the content "confronts the disinformation
and censorship efforts of the Iranian regime and enhances U.S.
efforts to speak directly to the Iranian people and the global
Persian-speaking diaspora."

It is unclear how much content VOA has been beaming into Iran in
recent weeks. The broadcaster's VOA Farsi channel on YouTube
showed eight new videos since Israel struck inside Iran early
[June 13].

https://radioinfo.asia/news/voice-of-america-abruptly-reactivates-persian-service-amid-israel-iran-conflict/
 

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From Science News:

A 43,000-year-old Neandertal fingerprint has been found in Spain

By Javier Barbuzano
June 10, 2025

In a rugged landscape in central Spain, archaeologists have
discovered a unique granite cobblestone marked with a red ochre
dot that preserves the mark of a Neandertal fingerprint. Dating
back approximately 43,000 years, it could be the oldest and most
complete Neandertal fingerprint ever identified.

Roughly 20 centimeters long, the rock bears a resemblance to a
human face, with the ochre dot where a nose might be, researchers
report May 24 in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
This arrangement, the scientists say, suggests it's a case of
pareidolia -- the tendency to perceive familiar shapes, such as
faces, in random objects. It's possible the likeness inspired the
Neandertal who placed the pigment there.

The stone was excavated in the summer of 2022 at Abrigo de San
Lázaro, a Paleolithic rock shelter carved into dolomite cliffs
overlooking the Eresma River. It emerged from a sediment layer
precisely dated to 43,000 and 42,000 years ago through
radiocarbon analysis of organic material. That's near the end of
Neandertal history.

The rock appeared with the red dot facing upward, in a layer with
few other stones, most showing signs that they were once used as
hammering tools. It quickly attracted the archaeologist's
interest because it was larger than any other stone in the layer,
"and from the first moment, we saw that it had a red dot," says
David Álvarez Alonso, an historian and archaeologist at the
Complutense University in Madrid.

Intrigued by the dot's precision and placement, the team first
confirmed that it wasn´t a natural feature of the rock through a
mineralogical analysis. They hypothesized the dot may have been
made by dipping a fingertip into a mixture of the natural pigment
ochre and water, then pressing it to the rock. To test the idea,
the team consulted forensic specialists at Spain's national
police.

Puzzled by the request, the forensic specialists were initially
skeptical of their ability to solve such a cold case, Álvarez
Alonso says. But multispectral imaging -- a technique that
examines surfaces under different wavelengths of light -- revealed
fingerprint ridges, showing the print was made as the ochre was
applied.

The shape suggests it was likely made with the tip of a finger,
though it's unclear which one. Based on comparisons to
fingerprint databases, the most probable match is an adult male,
rather than a woman or child.

Unlike incidental prints left on objects such as resin balls
found in Germany -- probably during toolmaking -- this print
appears intentional. The placement of the dot, combined with the
lack of obvious utility for the rock, suggests a symbolic
purpose, the researchers say.

It is impossible to determine the painter's intention, Álvarez
Alonso says. But in a context where rocks were used as tools, to
him it's clear the person who marked this one was conferring it a
different meaning.

This interpretation contributes to an ongoing reevaluation of
Neandertal cognitive abilities. For much of the last century,
Neandertals were viewed as lacking symbolic thought -- a trait
thought to separate them from modern humans. But over the past
two decades, discoveries such as painted seashells and pendants,
have eroded that distinction.

Some of the most compelling evidence comes from the painted caves
of southern Spain -- such as Ardales and Maltravieso -- where
Neandertals made geometric patterns and hand stencils roughly
20,000 years before Homo sapiens arrived in the region. Although
those markings lack the vivid imagery of later Upper Paleolithic
art, produced between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, the work's
symbolic intent is becoming increasingly accepted.

"This is a beautiful and original study," says archaeologist José
Ramos-Muñoz of the University of Cadiz, Spain, who was not
involved in the research. "The oldest art consists of dots, lines
and smudges," he says, and more evidence of that keeps appearing.
"This is another data point in the same direction."

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-neandertal-fingerprint-spain
 

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Image: Red pigment on a rock in Spain revealed an embedded
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This week's images ...

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The sun rose through clouds, with the result looking somewhat
like Saturn. York Beach, Maine, June 13. tinyurl.com/237ulx2g ...

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Intense rainbow in Potomac, Maryland, after a heavy rain, June
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A Pieris rapae butterfly flies towards a flower in a field in
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A northbound train approaches a crossing in central Florida.
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This Erin Rachel hibiscus bloomed June 17 in Silicon Valley.
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Smoky sunset at Roque Bluffs State Park in Machias, Maine.
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On June 14, the Air Qualty Index (AQI)in the Washington DC area
was 151 -- unhealthy -- due to wildfire smoke from New Jersey.
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Sunrise at Reagan National Airport in Washington DC, June 12.
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A Phainopepla at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior,
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A ladybug (ladybird) at the Tyler Arboretum in Media,
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Our painting of the week is “Provence lavender” by Anastasia
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