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The Frontonasal Suture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontonasal_suture

Is carbon dating fake? Pseudo-Archaeology 180: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo/180

Ark of the Covenant in Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_Mary_of_Zion#Ark_of_the_Covenant

The Oak Island Mystery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island_mystery

The Kensington Runestone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Runestone

Moundbuilder Myths and Viking Runestones – Great Plains Archaeology Podcast 36: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/great-plains-archaeology/36

Holy Grail in America (2009): https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/223652-holy-grail-in-america

Is There Archaeological Evidence That The Knights Templar Came To America? Mysteries Unearthed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpbBxUrq230

Genesis 19: Sodom and Gomorroah Destroyed: https://www.bible.com/bible/111/GEN.19.NIV

1 Samuel 17: David and Goliath: https://www.bible.com/bible/111/1SA.17.NIV

Surovell et al. (2026) A mid-Holocene age for Monte Verde challenges the timeline of human colonization of South America: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adw9217

Dog digs up possible link to notorious 19th-century Devon murder case: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/20/dog-19th-century-devon-murder-case-discovery

Under the Banner of Heaven (2022): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1998372/

Johnny Jerusalem’s sarcophagus in a Utah dump: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/8lclrc/friend_found_this_in_a_dump_yardin_utah_btw/

Episode 126: Luggage of the Gods (1983)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Luggage of the Gods (1983) is the surprisingly unproblematic story of a relict tribe of cave people living in the uncharted central part of America who are thrust into contact with the outside world when an airliner is forced to dump its passengers’ luggage while flying overhead. This is a low budget ‘80s caveman movie, so you know what that means: we’re playing Caveman Movie Bingo!

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Play Caveman Movie Bingo: https://bingobaker.com/#681e1d01d32b436e

Oryctolagus cuniculus, the domestic rabbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_rabbit

Piebald: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piebald

Vic Reeves singing in the style of a club singer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2prE-DUyESY

Urki from Far Cry: Primal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HkrLuV6_Rs

The Gods Must be Crazy (1980): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/

Cargo Cults: https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/cargo-cults

QAnon as a New Religious Movement: https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/what-the-study-of-new-religious-movements-can-tell-us-about-qanon/

Episode 125: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) is a surreal documentary by Werner Hertzog offering viewers an unprecedented glimpse of Europe’s oldest Palaeolithic art inside France’s Chauvet Cave. As we step into the cave, we cross a threshold between present and past, waking and dreaming, fact and truth... sanity and insanity... A place where juggling archaeologists dream of lions, perfumers find caves by smell, and nuclear crocodiles draw closer every year.

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Watch Cave of Forgotten Dreams: https://watchdocumentaries.com/cave-of-forgotten-dreams/

Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09968-y

Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd4648

The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13621

Neanderthal hashtag: https://theconversation.com/is-that-rock-hashtag-really-the-first-evidence-of-neanderthal-art-31238

Mask of La Roche Cotard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of_la_Roche-Cotard

Majkić et al. (2017) Sequential Incisions on a Cave Bear Bone from the Middle Paleolithic of Pešturina Cave, Serbia: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-017-9331-5

Life Drawing and the Chauvet Lions: https://doi.org/10.4000/palethnologie.2677

The Crocodile Farm: https://www.lafermeauxcrocodiles.com/

Viminacium Archaeological Park: http://viminacium.org.rs/en/

Our review of The Lost City (2022): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-64-the-lost-city-2022/

Kathy Reichs’ Temperance Brennan Series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/43556-temperance-brennan

Hertzog explains “ecstatic truth” vs. “accountant’s truth”: https://www.indiewire.com/news/general/werner-herzog-fesses-up-to-the-fake-mutated-albino-crocodiles-in-cave-of-forgotten-dreams-118193/

Azéma and Rivère (2012) Animation in Paleolithic Art: https://doi.org/10.4000/palethnologie.2094

Neanderthal perfume: https://neandertal.eu/

Episode 124: Stone Age Advertising (Part 2)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0000

We’re back with more caveman TV commercials! From deodorant to veganism to car insurance, it seems like prehistoric people have been exploited to sell everything. All this commercialism seems to be getting to us and this episode kinda devolves into an anti-capitalist rant. So go plant a garden, buy local, and eat the rich! (This is Part Two of a two-part episode)

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Watch our Caveman Advertisements playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzzOAyef3Dypl9g6GIFBv1_oLylmjpsku&si=ZNJvJD74X2jc-IYS

The Invention of Prehistory (2023) by Stefanos Geroulanos: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091455

Vanished (2025) by Sadiah Qureshi: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadiah/9780241352106

Electric Pow Wow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpkUISUx3Low

Erich von Däniken dead at 90: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/obituaries/erich-von-daniken-dead.html

The Fortean Times: https://subscribe.forteantimes.com/

How to transition to reduced-meat diets: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137208

Brassica flavour and genetics: https://doi.org/10.1080/10408398.2017.1353478

James Van Der Beek's Widow Kimberly and Their 6 Kids Are 'Out of Funds' After His Death, 'Facing Uncertain Future': https://people.com/james-van-der-beeks-widow-and-their-6-kids-are-out-of-funds-after-his-death-11904875

Episode 123: Stone Age Advertising (Part 1)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re exploring the crazy world of marketing – caveman style! We’re reviewing a compilation of television commercials featuring prehistoric people. McDonald’s, Budweiser, Doritos—if it’s modern and convenient, you can bet a caveman has tried to sell it. Why? I’m not sure, but I’m kinda craving some cheese products for some reason. (This is Part One of a two-part episode)

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Font-de-Gaume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font-de-Gaume

Cotte de St. Brelade “mammoth drive”: https://eameigs.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-jersey-mammoth-drive

Zdeněk Burian Palaeoart: https://www.proistoria.org/paleolithic/upper-paleolithic/upper-paleolithic-by-zdenek-burian/

The Invention of Prehistory (2023) by Stefanos Geroulanos: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091455

Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans

Canadian dairy farmers react to changing market trends: https://canadiangrocer.com/dairy-farmers-pulls-print-ad-following-complaints

Episode 122: Boonie Bears: Blast into the Past (2019)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:32:46 +0000

Today we’re exploring the world of the Boonie Bears, China’s biggest animation brand. In the sixth feature film, the bears Blast into the Past—30 thousand years, to be exact, to a time when dinosaur skeletons dotted the landscape and humans were at war with wolves... and giants pandas took their name literally, and rainbow terror birds defied the physics of flight, and cavemen punched lava bombs out of the air with their bare hands!

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Watch Boonie Bears: Blast into the Past on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vwcaf6aj90

Eucladoceros (the bush-antlered deer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucladoceros

Homotherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotherium

Megacerops... or Brontops, or Brontotherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacerops

Phorusracids (terror birds): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae

Kumar et al. (2017) The evolutionary history of bears is characterized by gene flow across species: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep46487

Wu et al. (2022) High-precision U-series dating of the late Pleistocene – early Holocene rock paintings at Tiger Leaping Gorge, Jinsha River valley, southwestern China: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105535

Fu et al. (2025) Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.040

Callaway (2021) Oldest DNA from a Homo sapiens reveals surprisingly recent Neanderthal ancestry: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00916-0

Episode 121: Cavegirl (1985)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing Cavegirl (1985), a movie which Wikipedia misleadingly describes as a “sex comedy”. It tells the story of a teenage nerd (i.e., incel) who is accidentally thrown back in time due to some magic crystal/military helicopter shenanigans and meets a charming manic pixie cavegirl who nonetheless fails to instill in him any growth or character development whatsoever.

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Watch Cavegirl: A Second Journey Back in Time (2013): https://vimeo.com/193203934

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Altamira cave paintings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Altamira

Homo erectus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus

Shirley Temple – Animal Crackers in my Soup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNwFXLcrsbc

What is a “dude ranch”? https://www.clazyu.com/blog/working-dude-ranch/what-is-a-dude-ranch-a-brief-history/

Stacy Q – Two of Hearts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBdGT4dn4E

Michelle Bauer in Dinosaur Island (1994): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000292/mediaviewer/rm3165827072/?ref_=nm_ov_ph

Episode 120: Korg: 70,000 B.C. (1974)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing Korg: 70,000 B.C. (1974), a children’s TV series about a Neanderthal family from Hanna-Barbera, creators of The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, and more. Unlike those series, however, this one is live-action! Who knew? Anyway, we talk about a lot of academic papers about Neanderthals, because nothing happens in the episode we watched.

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Cave lions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_spelaea

Caspian tigers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_tiger

Paleoloxodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoloxodon

Phylogenetic trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic_tree

California woodpeckers: https://avibirds.com/woodpeckers-of-california/

UK woodpeckers: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/how-identify/identify-uk-woodpeckers

Shanidar 1: https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/paleoanthropology/shanidar-1-neanderthal-05355.html

Trinkaus et al. (2019) External auditory exostoses among western Eurasian late Middle and Late Pleistocene humans: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220464

Buzi et al. (2025) The first preserved nasal cavity in the human fossil record: The Neanderthal from Altamura: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426309122

Márquez (2008) The paranasal sinuses: The last frontier in craniofacial biology: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.20791

The Invention of Prehistory (2024) by Stefanos Geroulanos: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091455

Episode 119: The Rap Guide to Evolution (2009)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000

To kick off the New Year, we’re reviewing The Rap Guide to Evolution, a music album by Baba Brinkman which is... pretty self-explanatory, really. So here’s an hour and 15 minutes of us explaining it! We get into evolutionary psychology, 2000s-era edgelord atheism, postmodernism, genital evolution, and much more!

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Ambulocetus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulocetus

Gol’din and Radović (2018) A Middle Miocene baleen whale from Bele Vode in Belgrade, Serbia: https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/9751

Marković et al. (2025) First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106177

Recapitulation theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory

Out of Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa

Jebel Irhoud: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22335

Apidima: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z

Social constructivism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructivism

Tim Minchin - Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

Science communication and science denial: https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/busting-myths-a-practical-guide-to-countering-science-denial/

Grizzly bear attacks school children in Canada: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz68x1n5qd6o

Evolutionary Psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Pig domestication: https://www.thoughtco.com/the-domestication-of-pigs-170665

Ape testicle size: https://theconversation.com/why-did-humans-evolve-big-penises-but-small-testicles-71652

James Watson dead at 97: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/watson-james-obituary-9.6971457

Episode 118: Cavemen S01E09 Caveman Holiday (2007)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Happy Longnight! Today is the December Solstice, and to celebrate we’re reviewing a very special holiday episode of 2007 sitcom Cavemen, based on the popular Geico insurance commercials. Everyone is invited, whether we like them or not, so grab a slice of forager’s pie and a glass of Beef Fizz and settle in to listen to your favourite palaeo researchers trying to explain basic astronomy. To the cow!

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Watch Cavemen S01E09 Caveman Holiday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtbPiIMQ2g&list=PL81C5835E560AE6BE&index=26

Listen to our review of Cavemen S01E01: https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-78-cavemen-s01e01-her-embarrassed-of-caveman-2007/

Neanderthal diet: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/neanderthal-diet/

Weyrich et al. (2017). Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21674

Richards and Trinkaus (2009). Isotopic evidence for the diets of European Neanderthals and early modern humans: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903821106

Beasley et al. (2025). Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt7466

Fellows Yates et al. (2021). The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021655118

Adler et al. (2017). Evolution of the Oral Microbiome and Dental Caries: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40496-017-0151-1

Phytoliths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolith

Chinique de Armas et al. (2015). Starch analysis and isotopic evidence of consumption of cultigens among fisher–gatherers in Cuba: the archaeological site of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.03.003

Solstice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice

Analemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma

Crazy Ancient Greek planet math: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle

The Antikythera Mechanism – Pseudoarchaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo/96

Beef fizz: https://vinepair.com/articles/beef-fizz-drink-history/

Episode 117: Teenage Cave Man (1958)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing the paradoxically and yet aptly named Teenage Cave Man (1958), the story of a 30-something teenage rebel who dares to break the rules and explore beyond his Stone Age tribe’s borders – and discovers a shocking twist!! In this episode we talk about [REDACTED: SPOILERS], [REDACTED: SPOILERS], and how much Josh hates Game of Thrones.

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Watch Teenage Cave Man (1958) on MST3K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XG0zAjYMvE

The mutant wolves of Chernobyl: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a46799706/mutant-wolves-of-chernobyl/

One Million B.C. (1940) lizard fight (TW: animal cruelty): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utmDH1iwTpw

Game of Thrones Ikea rug fur capes: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/08/166757/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-fur-secret-ikea-rugs

Game of Thrones Starbucks cup: https://www.refinery29.com/en-ca/2019/05/232192/game-of-thrones-starbucks-coffee-cup-memes-season-8

The Man from UNCLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM5gbwUrIgw

Long-term nuclear waste warning messages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

99 Percent Invisible: Ten Thousand Years: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

The Twilight Zone – The Old Man in the Cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_in_the_Cave

Pidgins, creoles, and the language instinct: https://www.discovermagazine.com/kids-creoles-and-the-coconuts-40017

Genie the feral child: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/14/genie-feral-child-los-angeles-researchers

Critical period hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis

Atkinson (2011) Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1199295

Episode 116: Prey (2022) with Dr. Carlton Shield Chief Gover

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

This week, by popular request, we are reviewing Prey (2022), a prequel to the Predator franchise in which the eponymous alien hunter meets his match on the American Great Plains of 1719. We’re joined by archaeologist Dr. Carlton Shield Chief Gover, who helps us navigate the movie’s medicinal plants, upside-down archery draws, and inadvisable sharpening techniques, and reminds us why we should never whistle at night.

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Fatal cougar attacks in North America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_cougar_attacks_in_North_America

Cougar stalks hiker – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pg2CDCm34w

Cougars in Boulder, Colorado, during Covid lockdown: https://www.dailycamera.com/2020/04/18/mountain-lions-sighted-during-snowy-week-for-boulder/

Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie by Kelly Kindscher: https://prairieedge.com/all-products/medicinal-wild-plants-of-the-prairie-an-ethnobotanical-guide-book/

Breadroot/Biscuitroot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediomelum_esculentum

Calendula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendula

Carolina dog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Dog

No rats in Alberta: https://www.alberta.ca/albertas-rat-control-program

Native American Gender Roles: https://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.gen.026.html

Chert and Flint: https://www.britannica.com/science/chert

Knife River Flint: https://albertashistoricplaces.com/2019/07/24/knife-river-flint-quarries-and-the-alberta-connection/

Archery bow draws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_draw

Devin Pettigrew and Justin Garnett: https://basketmakeratlatl.com/

Comanche bow and arrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G1Vo9GV2H8

Taylor et al. (2023) Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adc9691

Pia Mupitzi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche#Children

Legends of the Northern Lights: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/legends-of-the-northern-lights/

Never Alone: https://store.steampowered.com/app/295790/Never_Alone_Kisima_Ingitchuna/

Playlist of songs featuring Cougar/Jaguar screams: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzzOAyef3DyqWudpeqU1BckUBAotcsuCP

Episode 115: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) with Joe Wood

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

We’ve dug too far! We overshot the Stone Age and hit the Dinosaur Age again! Today we’re joined by palaeontologist Joe Wood to review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), the second movie in the Jurassic franchise (and the last good one). We talk about lumpers, splitters, slappers, clappers, and everything you ever wanted to know about our fine feathered friends.

Joe’s links:

An Hour of Our Time podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-hour-of-our-time/id1357779625 and https://open.spotify.com/show/0Mc5nXRa8XEn1UJJvhySXY?si=5EtqTooBRCqW4ccaNYoRnw

The Shifting Realms Dungeons and Dragons actual play: https://youtube.com/@quasirealpublishing?si=XakeSxGg8CrFO_Xa

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List of Dinosaurs

Compsognathus (“Compies”): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compsognathus

Sinosauropteryx (preserved feathers!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinosauropteryx

Stegosaurus (not tail-draggers!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus

Tyrannosaurus (Ty-what? Never heard of it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus

Edmontosaurus (Cretaceous cows): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmontosaurus

Pachycephalosaurus (boneheads): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosaurus

Parasaurolophus (“The one with the pompadour! Elvis!”): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasaurolophus

Mamenchisaurus (OK, that neck is actually too long): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamenchisaurus

Pinacosaurus (the one with the syrinx): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinacosaurus

Velociraptor (slapper vs. clapper): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor

Citipati (Big Mama): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citipati

Palaeontologists

David Hone: https://www.davehone.co.uk/

Robert Bakker: https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Bakker

Jack Horner: https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Horner

Books

Michael Crichton – Dragon Teeth: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31287693-dragon-teeth

Mark Jaffe – The Gilded Dinosaur: https://archive.org/details/gildeddinosaur00mark

Edward Dolnick – Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199798305-dinosaurs-at-the-dinner-party

Other talking points

Holotype: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holotype

Huxley proposed that birds evolved from dinosaurs: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/thomas-henry-huxley-and-the-dinobirds-88519294/

The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Oxford_evolution_debate

Which dinosaurs had feathers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathered_dinosaur

Phylogenetic bracketing: https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Phylogenetic_bracketing

Dinosaur syrinx: https://www.livescience.com/extremely-rare-fossilized-dinosaur-voice-box-suggests-they-sounded-birdlike

Crocodile heart shunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfrtGzazKI

Stegosaurus gular armour: https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/gular-armour/

Lumpers vs splitters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters

Enchodus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchodus

Ben Shapiro doesn’t understand lions (Behind the Bastards podcast): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdm6bFMoqh4

Do palaeontologists really call it a “thagomizer”? https://www.reddit.com/r/Dinosaurs/comments/1axr07u/the_thagomizer/

Terrible Lizards podcast: https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/

Episode 114: The Lost Tribe (2009)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:00:00 +0000

We’re continuing spooky month with a movie that’s as confused about theology as it is about evolution: The Lost Tribe (2009) tells the story of some insufferable tech bros and their girlfriends who stumble into the middle of a Catholic conspiracy to cover-up undeniable proof of human evolution, in the form of a bloodthirsty tribe of “primevil” hominins!

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Watch The Lost Tribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaOfWV72vmM

Saltation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltation_(biology)

Richard Klein (2000) The Archaeology of Human Behaviour: https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(2000)9:1%3C17::AID-EVAN3%3E3.0.CO;2-A

Darwin and the Church: https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/commentary/religion/darwin-and-church

Colour vision in animals: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/colors-animals-see

Sagittal crest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittal_crest

Nails and claws in primate evolution: https://doi.org/10.1006/jhev.1998.0263

Homo floresiensis and island dwarfism: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-22166736

Ebu gogo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebu_gogo

Gamer dent: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gamer-dent

Piltdown Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

Genus Gansus: https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Gansus

Baháʼí Faith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith

Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, and It Ends With Us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Ends_with_Us_controversy

“The Implication” (IASIP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgUvwcU6P7I

Episode 113: Legend of the Bog (2009)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:00:00 +0000

It’s October, and as is tradition, we’re reviewing scary Halloween movies this month! First up is Legend of the Bog (2009), a movie with just enough Vinnie Jones in it to justify putting him on the cover. You’ve seen mummies; you’ve seen zombies; but what about a resurrected Iron Age bog body? Plus: a special guest appearance from a Sp0okY Gh0st!

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List of Bog Bodies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bog_bodies

Our episode on Neander-Jin (2011): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-25-neander-jin-2011/

Forensic archaeology: https://icmp.int/what-we-do/science-and-technology/forensic-archaeology-and-anthropology/

Tollund Man’s last meal: https://foodstudies.org/celebrating-the-bog-mans-last-meal/

How to use an optical level in archaeology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ7DFdF3lVs

Archaeology of the undead: https://archive.archaeology.org/online/interviews/zombies/

Speculative Vampire metabolism: https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/vampire-science-how-much-blood-would-a-vampire-need-to-drink

Peat fires: https://natural-resources.canada.ca/forest-forestry/wildland-fires/peatland-fires-carbon-emissions

Bog roads – The Corlea Trackway: https://allaroundireland.ie/corlea-bog-road/

Episode 112: Phineas and Ferb (2007-)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher are precocious STEM-minded stepbrothers trying to make the most of their 104 days of summer vacation. Today we’re reviewing five episodes of this popular Disney Channel series, featuring Egyptian movie mummies, dinosaur time-travel capers, cartoon cave people, and a “corn colossus”, whatever that means.

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Play Caveman Movie Bingo with us! https://bingobaker.com/#681e1d01d32b436e

The University of Alberta’s Egyptian mummy: https://calgary.thessea.org/ct-scans-uofas-egyptian-mummy/

Geological Ages: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/time-scale.htm

The Palaeolithic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic

The African Stone Age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_archaeology

The history of Mirrors: https://longreads.com/2019/07/11/the-ugly-history-of-beautiful-things-mirrors/

Our episode on Timeline (2003): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-56-timeline-2003/

Our episode on Futurama: https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-8-futurama/

Our episode on Iceman (1984): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-3-iceman-1984/

Our episode on the other Iceman (2017): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-4-iceman-2017/

Our episode on Year One (2009): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-12-year-one-2009/

Our episode on Clan of the Cave Bear (1986): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-6-the-clan-of-the-cave-bear-1986/

Our episode on Ironmaster (1983): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-58-ironmaster-1983/

Our episode on Caveman (1981) (the one with Ringo Starr): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-20-caveman-1981/

Our episode on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-52-indiana-jones-and-the-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981/

Episode 111: The Armstrong and Miller Show – The Origins Of…

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 05:00:00 +0000

The Armstrong and Miller Show (2007-2010) was a very British sketch comedy show featuring a recurring cast of characters, including a group of cavemen navigating anachronistic scenarios. Join us today as we break down nine short sketches and learn The Origins Of several familiar modern concepts!

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The Origins Of playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b56eAUCTLok&list=PLHPcoj7GjvN2Ik5pUnP1eCZAEhkHljvLX

Saharan Rock Art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_rock_art

Palaeolithic portable art: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-portable-art-172101

All cavemen were Neanderthals: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllCavemenWereNeanderthals

Reticulation in evolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulate_evolution

Growing up in the Ice Age by April Nowell: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv13nb8xw

How Neanderthal molar teeth grew: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05314

The “fateful hoaxing” of Margaret Mead: https://doi.org/10.1086/669033

Weird name spellings: https://medium.com/@marilyn_yung/dear-new-parents-complicate-your-childs-life-spell-their-name-weird-4eb22c77e2f6

Neanderthal cannibalism: https://magazine.libarts.colostate.edu/article/cannibalism-ritual-or-both-the-neanderthal-debate-continues-at-krapina-cave-in-croatia/

Upper Palaeolithic human sacrifice: https://www.livescience.com/1594-early-europeans-practiced-human-sacrifice.html

Earliest evidence of alcohol: https://www.penn.museum/research/project.php?pid=12

Life expectancy in the past: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-ancient-people-live-life-span-versus-longevity

Is that skeleton gay? https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/04/08/is-that-skeleton-gay-the-problem-with-projecting-modern-ideas-onto-the-past/

Sex assessment from Palaeolithic hand prints: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.01.028

White Sands footprints: https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/nature/fossilized-footprints.htm

Population size of elephants: https://ourworldindata.org/elephant-populations

Neanderthal Eagle Talon Pendant: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191101143959.htm

Armin Meiwes on LPOTL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcGFjyMlTyo

Episode 110: Uncharted (2022) with Rachel McMullan

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:00:00 +0000

On this episode we’re joined by OG archaeology YouTuber Rachel McMullan of the channel Inside Archaeology to review Uncharted (2022), a movie that explores many diverse settings, none of which are uncharted. It’s a movie that defies physics, and logic, and sense, and yet somehow feels like a bland rehash of other movies we’ve covered.

Inside Archaeology on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Inside_Archaeology

Inside Archaeology on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inside.archaeology

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In this episode:

The Uncharted video game franchise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Uncharted_media

The Magellan Expedition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_expedition

Francis Drake's circumnavigation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake%27s_circumnavigation

Henry Avery/Every: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Every

Uncharted (2018) fan film starring Nathan Fillion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5CZQpqF_74

The Nine-Dash Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line

El Born Centre of Culture and Memory: https://elbornculturaimemoria.barcelona.cat/en/visit/the-center/

Early World Maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps

Ancient Origins on Uncharted: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/uncharted-film-0016862

The San Jose shipwreck in Colombia: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn18xl3j7o

Episode 109: King Arthur (2004) with Dr. Brian Buchanan

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re joined by Dr. Brian Buchanan to review King Arthur (2004), a modern retelling of the ancient myth based on “recently discovered archaeological evidence,” allegedly. Brain leads us on a journey beyond Hadrian’s Wall and helps us tease apart this movie’s tangled mess of Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Picts, Sarmatians, and more.

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Gefrin Trust:

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Sisa: https://deadline.com/2025/01/hilda-koronel-jun-robles-lana-sisa-philippine-american-war-1236252344/

In this episode:

Historicity of King Arthur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_King_Arthur

“Anglo-Saxonism”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxonism_in_the_19th_century

Sarmatians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatians

Picts: https://www.digitscotland.com/who-were-the-picts/

Hadrian’s Wall: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/hadrians-wall/hadrians-wall-history-and-stories/history/

Rome’s Ninth Legion: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-12752497

Battle of Badon Hill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Badon

Episode 108: The Dig (2021) with Rob Rownd

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re joined by professor/filmmaker/archaeologist Rob Rownd to review The Dig (2021), a film which tells the (mostly) true story of the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon ship burial excavation of 1939. Find out why we love this movie so much, even though it makes some questionable decisions about the portrayal of real-life archaeologist Peggy Piggot. Check out Rob’s projects:

Cinemartyrs: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-film-fatales-fund-indie-film-cinemartyrs--2#/

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In this episode:

Phillips (1940) The excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500009677

The True Story Behind the Dig: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/suffolk/sutton-hoo/digging-the-dirt-at-sutton-hoo-the-true-story-behind-the-dig

The Misrepresentation of Peggy Piggot in “The Dig”: https://theheritagehut.wordpress.com/2021/03/23/the-misrepresentation-of-peggy-piggott-in-the-dig/

Stuart Piggot’s Poetry: https://stuart-piggott-poetry.com/stuart%20and%20peggy.html

Artifacts from Sutton Hoo: https://digventures.com/2021/01/16-brilliant-discoveries-from-the-sutton-hoo-ship-burial/

Cornelius Holtorf (2007) Archaeology is a Brand! https://archive.org/details/archaeologyisbra00holt/mode/2up

Episode 107: Kon Tiki (2012) with Fredrik Trusohamn

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’ve invited Fredrik Trusohamn of Digging Up Ancient Aliens to help us review Kon Tiki (2012), the true story of Thor Heyerdahl and his adventure on the Pacific Ocean which proved that Polynesia was settled by explorers from Peru... or did it? In this episode we reveal the dark secrets that movie doesn’t want you to know, and identify what Kon Tiki, Ancient Aliens, and Atlantis all have in common (spoilers: it’s hyperdiffusionism!)

Hear more from Fredrik:

Digging Up Ancient Aliens: https://diggingupancientaliens.com/

DUAA on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@digging_up_ancient_alien

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In this episode:

Watch Kon Tiki (2012) on Plex: https://watch.plex.tv/movie/kon-tiki-2012

Watch Kon Tiki (1950) (the documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvBYfba8nv8

Read The Kon Tiki Expedition (1950) by Thor Heyerdahl: https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.524366/

Read American Indians In The Pacific (1952) by Thor Heyerdahl: https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.505573/

Why do waves come in sets? https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/why-do-waves-come-in-sets

Victor Melander (2019) David’s Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Reception of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki Theory’: https://archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.5334/bha-612

Alexander Ioannidis et al. (2020) Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2

Hōkūleʻa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dk%C5%ABle%CA%BBa

Czech archaeologists trace ancient sea routes in Neolithic dugout replica: https://english.radio.cz/monoxylon-iii-czech-archaeologists-trace-ancient-sea-routes-neolithic-dugout-8130367

Sarmatian log boat (monoxylon) at Novi Sad Museum: https://europebetweeneastandwest.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/how-will-we-be-forgotten-petrovaradin-of-sarmatians-monoxylon-a-balkan-affair-30/

Brief Update / Bonus Video

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are not able to post our regularly scheduled episode today, but in its place we'd like to share a YouTube video Josh made for the ComSciCon Canada conference! You can find it at the following link: https://youtu.be/I_jHuLPhF7I

Please check it out, and leave us a comment letting us know what you think!

ComSciCon Canada: https://www.comsciconcanada.org/

Episode 106: Sasquatch Sunset (2024)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing Sasquatch Sunset (2024), the story of a family of Bigfoots searching in vain for more of their own kind while coming to terms with a new threat to their survival: humans. It’s a beautiful, powerful film about grief, uncertainty, perseverance, hope, and poop. Lots of poop.

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In this episode:

Ross’ yeti paper: Edwards & Barnett (2015). Himalayan ‘yeti’ DNA: Polar bear or DNA degradation? A comment on ‘Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti’ by Sykes et al.(2014): https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1712

Sasquatch Birth Journal 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVTw2w6MiFw

Riley Keough – Creatures of Nature – grunt version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlueLd7Kqo

Number sense in animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sense_in_animals

The Patterson Gimlin film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q60mSMmhTZU

Wild chimps play with dolls: https://www.npr.org/2010/12/21/132231422/wild-chimps-may-play-dolls

Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) - drowning scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W3sZedBfIM

Bigfoot behaviour: https://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_FAQ.asp?id=587

Why do chimps throw poop? https://www.livescience.com/66042-why-chimps-throw-poop.html

Bowland et al. (2025). The evolutionary ecology of ethanol: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.005

Did ‘shrooms send Santa and his reindeer flying? https://www.npr.org/2010/12/24/132260025/did-shrooms-send-santa-and-his-reindeer-flying

Episode 105: Robin from Ghosts

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Ghosts is a BBC sitcom about a young couple who inherit a mansion which happens to be haunted by a cast of spirits from various periods of Britain’s history—including the Stone Age. Today we’re reviewing the character Robin, who is some sort of caveman ghost who has been haunting the grounds since long before Button House was built. His is a tragic story of extreme loneliness and solitude, but through it all he’s developed a strong sense of humour, a sage-like wisdom, and an appreciation of bums.

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9 minutes of Robin chaos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrgFgyTGKwI

Roger Clark (2012) A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Natural_History_of_Ghosts

Greyfriar’s Kirkyard: https://greyfriarskirk.com/visit/kirkyard/

Ghosts of Roman soldiers haunt ancient city of York: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1977/01/19/Ghosts-of-Roman-soldiers-haunt-ancient-city-of-York/6631571073639/

Jaubert et al. (2016). Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18291

The BBC article about the “highly inbred” Neanderthal woman from Denisova Cave: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25423498

Episode 104: Saturday Night Live

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 25 May 2025 03:17:46 +0000

Live from New York: It’s the Stone Age! Today we’re reviewing an anthology of sketches from Saturday Night Live, the long-running American variety show, featuring Cockney cavemen, osteological phobias, Nile Valley girls, a real banger about Ancient Rome, and a lot of celebs humping each other.

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Watch our Stone Age SNL playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDF68rM3VM&list=PLzzOAyef3Dyrhg07MnEfFircHodV_OPjj

Don’t You Go Rounin’ Round to Re Ro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6p0W4ZsLXw

The earliest known fermented beverage: https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3424

Moosa et al. (2021). Sexual dimorphic parameters of femur: a clinical guide in orthopedics and forensic studies: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8811676/

The March of Progress: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl.edu/dist/1/1202/files/2018/10/MarchofProgressComplete-192k4uo.png

Sapolsky and Share (2004). A Pacific culture among wild baboons: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0020106

Maya vs. Aztec Calendar: https://mymayansign.com/blog/aztec-vs-mayan-calendar/

Ancient Rome Meme: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2023/09/21/tiktoks-roman-empire-meme-explained/

Hadrian was hella gay: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/antinous-and-hadrian

Eosimias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosimias

Orang Pendek: https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Orang_Pendek

Episode 103: Creatures the World Forgot (1971)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 11 May 2025 03:17:21 +0000

Today we’re playing Caveman Movie Bingo again! Creatures the World Forgot (1971) is another 70s caveman-sploitation film that’s heavy on the stereotypical tropes and light on plot. Despite the name, it might be most notable for not featuring any forgotten creatures.

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Watch Creatures the World Forgot on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/creatures-the-world-forgot

Play Caveman Movie Bingo: https://bingobaker.com#681e1d01d32b436e

Ostrich eggshell beads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich_eggshell_beads

Ostrich egg water bottles: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/213331

Elephant bird eggshells: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/28/ancient-eggshells-unlock-discovery-extinct-elephant-bird-lineage

Formicola and Buzhilova (2004) Double child burial from Sunghir (Russia): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15197816/

Dance of the Tiger (1995) by Björn Kurtén: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/dance-of-the-tiger/paper

The Asaro Mudmen of Papua New Guinea: https://www.tribes.world/en/community/who-are-the-asaro

The Dogon People of Mali: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogon_people

Episode 102: Dire Wolf (2009)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Big news! An American biotech company announced this week that they have brought the dire wolf back from extinction! We’ve honoured this great achievement by watching the prophetic film Dire Wolf (2009), a gory werewolf movie in which an American biotech company brought back the dire wolf from extinction... to create a military bioweapon! We’ve got our eyes on you, Colossal Biosciences...

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In this episode:

Watch Dire Wolf (2009) on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/641656/dire-wolf

The Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus): https://tarpits.org/stories/our-evolving-understanding-dire-wolves

Bone Clones Dire Wolf Skull: https://boneclones.com/product/dire-wolf-skull-tarpit-finish-BC-020T

Colossal Biosciences: https://colossal.com/

Colossal’s Dire Wolf preprint on BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.09.647074v1.abstract

Perri et al. (2021) Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x

Janczewski et al. (1992) Molecular phylogenetic inference from saber-toothed cat fossils of Rancho La Brea: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.89.20.9769

Hank Green – They Didn’t Make Dire Wolves, They Made Something...Else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0zgedLyTw

Beth Shapiro (2020) How to Clone a Mammoth: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691209005/how-to-clone-a-mammoth

Episode 101: The Simpsons S09E08 Lisa the Skeptic (1997)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing Lisa the Skeptic, a classic episode of The Simpsons in which Lisa discovers an apparent angel skeleton at an archaeological dig. In this episode we dig into hoaxes, the use of AI in academic writing, and the work of Stephen J. Gould. But in a larger sense, this episode will settle the age-old question of Science vs. Religion (spoiler alert: Capitalism wins).

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The Burgess Shale: https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/

Stephen J. Gould: https://achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/

The Cardiff Giant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant

AI in academic writing: https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/generative-ai-in-academic-writing/

Operation Flagship: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnd0p192kn2o

Operation Flagship on Stuff You Should Know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYcGopqLvEs

The Prophecy (1995): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PSZ7NDEgU

Kenneth Copeland is evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20y2Alkbc30

Christian Science reading rooms: https://apnews.com/article/christian-science-reading-rooms-religion-65a68fb88b7db958aa1c939e0d69719d

Anomalocaris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalocaris

Billy Beer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Beer

Episode 100: One Hundredth Episode Spectacular!!

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Today we’ve reached a milestone – 100 Episodes!! To celebrate, Josh is taking Kim and Ross on a trivia-based tour of some of the best and worst movies from our podcast’s prehistory. What have we learned after nearly four years of caveman movies? Let’s find out! Plus, a bonus review of Mastodons (1997).

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Watch Mastodons (1997): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXU3BC9Zie4

Part horn sound effect: “Party Horn Close 03” by Lucas_Schacht -- https://freesound.org/s/713658/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Episode 99: Mistress of the Apes (1979)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 04:30:00 +0000

Mistress of the Apes (1979) tells the harrowing tale of Susan, an anthropologist who lost her pregnancy and learned of her husband’s murder in Congo Kenya in the same week. But she remained strong, without showing any visible signs of emotion whatsoever, until she learned to love again, in the arms of a Homo habilis her husband had discovered prior to his death (his murder was unrelated).

Content warning: this movie contains multiple scenes involving sexual assault.

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Watch Mistress of the Apes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o9bYwBLBiU

Homo habilis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_habilis

Australopithecus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus

Koko banga saka: https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&text=koko%20banga%20saka&op=translate

African Genesis (1961) by Robert Ardrey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Genesis

Congolian Rainforest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congolian_rainforests

Jimmy Kimmel – Can you name a country? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRh1zXFKC_o

Rick Mercer – Talking to Americans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUWas-yQSw

Timbits: https://company.timhortons.com/ca/en/menu/timbits.php

Writing systems: https://www.britannica.com/topic/writing/Types-of-writing-systems

Ape sign language was a bunch of babbling nonsense: https://bigthink.com/life/ape-sign-language/

Episode 98: Curious George (2006)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Curious George (2006) tells the tail of the beloved eponymous monkey (sic) and reimagines (and sanitizes) The Man in the Yellow Hat as an archaeologist. This movie sets up a thoughtful and nuanced take on archaeological ethics and neocolonialism, and then says “Fuck it, it belongs in museum after all.” But George is soooo cuuuute!

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https://archive.archaeology.org/0605/news/insider.html

In this episode:

The History of Curious George: https://www.curiousgeorge.com/history/

Nicholas Wade (2007). In Lice, Clues to Human Origin and Attire. New York Times: https://cell2soul.typepad.com/cell2soul_blog/files/Lice.pdf

Aiello and Wheeler (1995). The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis. Current Anthropology: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/204350

Richard Wrangham (2009). Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Profile Books: https://dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-DDoNCJJ_Wt0qOH7e/Catching%20Fire%20%5BHow%20Cooking%20Made%20Us%20Human%5D.pdf

Ann Nicgorski (2006). Curious George’s Bad Example. Archaeology Magazine: https://archive.archaeology.org/online/reviews/curious.html

Curious George and the Looted Idol (2006). Archaeology Magazine:

Alfred Russel Wallace: https://wallacefund.myspecies.info/content/biography-wallace

Kirk Wallace Johnson (2018) The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Random House: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44153387-the-feather-thief

Jim Corbett: https://www.corbettnationalpark.in/corbett-heritage.htm

Clovis Culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture

Episode 97: Silent Films Double Feature

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing two films from a brutal, primitive time in humanity’s past, when both politics and romance were conducted through violence: the early 20th Century! His Prehistoric Past (1914) and Clubs are Trump (1917) follow suspiciously similar plots in which Silent Era stars Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Snub Pollard dream of a simpler time when they could commit violent assaults unimpeded and sexually harass women.

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Watch His Prehistoric Past (1914) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOVyT2rz6c

Watch Clubs are Trump (1917) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJWimG0AOI

Victorian Calling Cards: https://hobancards.com/blogs/thoughts-and-curiosities/calling-cards-and-visiting-cards-brief-history

The Truth about “Caveman Courtship”: https://daily.jstor.org/the-truth-about-caveman-courtship/

Timeline of Human Fossil Discoveries: https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/a-timeline-of-fossil-discoveries/

Piltdown Man: https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-problem-of-piltdown-man/

Archaeoraptor fossil hoax: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/fake-dino-bird-explained-1.274812

Cheetah fossil hoax: https://evolutionnews.org/2023/06/fossil-friday-the-oldest-cheetah-was-yet-another-fraud/

The scientific hoax that rocked Japan: https://spyscape.com/article/the-man-who-forged-ancient-artifacts

The Hays Code: https://www.npr.org/2008/08/08/93301189/remembering-hollywoods-hays-code-40-years-on

Winnipeg 1920 exhibit at the Manitoba Museum: https://manitobamuseum.ca/step-into-the-past-winnipeg-1920/

Episode 96: Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991) answers the age-old question: what if Jim Henson’s Dinosaurs and Honey I Shrunk the Kids had a baby, but it was put up for adoption and raised by the Ninja Turtles and The Flintstones, until it ran away from home and turned to sex work to survive? Kim insisted she loves this movie but then she got drunk and showed up late to the recording, and, honestly, that tells you everything you need to know.

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Watch Adventures in Dinosaur City on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODUA2sTtLY

Judge Whitey – Theft of Money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtUfNtgawNY

FATHER! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsriu6a_ukw

Ceratopsian Dinosaurs: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/body-shape/ceratopsian/gallery.html

Dinosaurs didn’t have a second brain in their butt: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-double-dinosaur-brain-myth-12155823/

Plural of “octopus”: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes

Stegosaurus/Giraffe size comparison: https://www.bipbapbop.com/images/how-tall-is-a-stegosaurus.webp

Facelift for T. rex: analysis suggests teeth were covered by thin lips: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00928-y

80s kids’ movies were traumatizing: https://collider.com/traumatizing-kids-movies-80s-ranked/

Roger Rabbit shoe dip scene (click at your own risk!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYk3LvHMPWM

Episode 95: Ross from Friends

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Today we’re talking about Dr. Ross Geller, the best friend from NBC’s hit 1990s sitcom. Ross is probably the world’s best-known palaeontologist, except it’s not clear if he specializes in dinosaurs or Pleistocene mammals. And sometimes he seems to be doing palaeoanthropology… or geology. Anyway, we’re not on a break, so prepare to pivot and achieve a state of true unagi, because we have 18 pages of notes for this episode—front and back!

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In this episode:

Ross Palaeontology YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4rnE_UsfHM&list=PLzzOAyef3Dyo8xLTGP_E2aW_yZhA3PkXf

Museums in Friends Blog: https://museumsinfriends.wordpress.com

“Mastodon” means “breast tooth”: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/mammoth-mastodon-differences

Chambers and McCahey (2024) 1990s dinomania: Public and popular cultures of palaeontology from Jurassic Park to Friends: https://doi.org/10.1177/03080188241233121

Robert Bakker and the “Dinosaur Renaissance”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_renaissance

Whom should we really call a “doctor”? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5973890/

T. rex and the Crater of Doom (1997) by Walter Alvarez: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691169668/t-rex-and-the-crater-of-doom

Bruce Trigger Warning: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/5081017-bruce-trigger-warning?store_id=145043

Real palaeontologist Dr. David Schwimmer: https://www.columbusstate.edu/profiles/schwimmer-david

Is it this Ted Rigby? http://rienco.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Ted-Rigby-CV-Updated-Sep-2015.pdf

David Schwimmer didn’t steal beer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2pDsCk01F4

The Felidae of Rancho La Brea (1932) by John Merriam and Chester Stock: https://archive.org/details/felidofranchol4221932merr/page/12/mode/2up

John C. Merriam, Palaeontologist: https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/about-ucmp/history-of-ucmp/john-c-merriam/

Ross Barnett on Ross Geller: https://twilightbeasts.org/2014/05/13/the-one-with-the-sabretooth/comment-page-1/

Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-06ki92PyVY

What is Chandler’s Job? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIpA9j1TVYo

Episode 94: La Brea S01E01 (2021)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Today we’re returning to L.A.’s famous tar pits for the pilot episode of La Brea (2021), the timey-wimey story of a family of Los Angelinos who fall into a sinkhole in Wilshire Boulevard and somehow end up in the Pleistocene. If you love ice age megafauna, this episode is for you! The show, maybe not so much.

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Smilodon: https://tarpits.org/stories/smilodon-saber-tooths-and-tigersoh-my

In this episode:

Dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus): https://tarpits.org/stories/our-evolving-understanding-dire-wolves

Teratornis merriami: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-giant-bird.htm

Megatherium: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-was-megatherium.html

Marcus (1960 ) A Cens us of abundant large Pleistocene mammals from Rancho La Brea: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226104339id_/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/226856

Spencer et al. (2003) Taphonomic Analysis of Large Mammals Recovered from the Pleistocene Ranc ho La Brea Tar Seeps: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4096974.pdf

La Brea W oman: http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi02v.php

Episode 93: The Christmas Quest (2024)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Happy Holidays! To celebrate the season we’re reviewing The Christmas Quest (2024), a brand-new Hallmark movie starring Lacey Chabert as an archaeologist searching for the lost treasure of Iceland’s Yule Lads. Josh regales us with stories of his Icelandic/Canadian heritage, from prune cake to giant classist cats to the witch living in his grandmother’s attic.

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In this episode:

Gryla and the Yule Lads: https://guidetoiceland.is/history-culture/the-icelandic-yule-lads-and-gryla

Icelandic patronymic surnames: https://www.routesnorth.com/language-and-culture/icelandic-last-names-a-simple-guide/

Icelandic Runic Alphabets: https://guidetoiceland.is/history-culture/a-guide-to-icelandic-runes

The Galdrabók (Icelandic Book of Magic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galdrab%C3%B3k

Necropants: https://guidetoiceland.is/connect-with-locals/aldasigmunds/the-necro-pants-revisited

The Rosetta Stone: https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-know-about-rosetta-stone

Geographic coordinate system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system

Jólabókaflóðið: https://jolabokaflod.org/about/founding-story/

One in ten Icelanders will publish a book in their lifetime: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/444296-most-published-writers-per-capita

Snowmance (2017) trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WeODKICqxA

Hot Frosty (2024) trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmi794YO-0w

Kilchurn Castle, Scotland: https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/kilchurn-castle/

Kæstur hákarl (fermented shark): https://yourfriendinreykjavik.com/fermented-shark-iceland/

Harðfiskur (hard fish): https://grapevine.is/food-main/2016/06/30/food-of-the-week-hardfiskur/

Vinarterta: https://macleans.ca/society/life/dont-ask-icelanders-how-to-make-their-traditional-christmas-cake/

Pönnukökur: https://www.cietours.com/en-ca/blog/recipe-icelandic-pancakes

Dimmuborgir: https://guidetoiceland.is/travel-iceland/drive/dimmuborgir

UK Escalator PSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zirp59zm1qE

Episode 92: One Million B.C. (1940)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing One Million B.C. (1940), a film from Hollywood’s Golden Era which is probably the common ancestor of all caveman movies. The 1966 remake with Raquel Welch is much more famous, but as it turns out it’s pretty faithful to the original, the main difference apparently being the blatant on-screen animal cruelty (consider this your content warning).

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In this episode:

Watch One Million B.C. (1940) on YouTube in glorious AI colour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgJBtn417Qo

Listen to our review of One Million Years B.C. (1966): https://youtu.be/gcTrCwrR0tk?feature=shared

Victor Mature: “I’m not an actor – and I’ve got 64 films to prove it!”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature#:~:text=Mature%20was%20famously%20self%2Ddeprecatory,That%20is%20my%20real%20occupation.

Snow White singing with the animals in the forest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmrr7-W6BA

The TVTropes entry for “Slurpasuar” has a screenshot from this movie: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Slurpasaur

Animal cruelty in One Million B.C.: https://www.californiaherps.com/films/lizardfilms/OneMillionBC1940.html

The modern bikini was born in 1946: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/07/05/culture-re-view-a-short-history-on-the-invention-of-the-bikini

Seventeen thousand-year-old conch shell horn: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966322717/why-a-musician-breathed-new-life-into-a-17-000-year-old-conch-shell-horn

Palaeolithic flutes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_flute

Episode 91: National Treasure (2004) with the History According to Hollywood Podcast

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0000

National Treasure (2004) is lowkey an American history lesson disguised as a heist movie—or vice versa? Either way, there are no cavemen in it, so we have invited Kyle from the History According to Hollywood Podcast to help us Commonwealth citizens understand the American obsession with faded old documents, broken bells, and Benjamin Franklin.

Listen to the History According to Hollywood Podcast – maybe the episode where Josh joined them to discuss 10,000 B.C.? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdkfjssevo&list=PLMIHuz5VH0Xdk_w8feD8qJiLM0ygQ-eBl&index=2

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In this episode:

The Silence Dogood Letters: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0008

The Charlotte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_(1784_ship)

Revolutionary War codes and invisible ink: https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-revolutionary-war/spying-and-espionage/spy-techniques-of-the-revolutionary-war

Symbols on American Money: https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/frbp/assets/institutional/education/publications/symbols-on-american-money.pdf

Ben Franklin didn’t invent Daylight Saving Time: https://fi.edu/en/science-and-education/benjamin-franklin/daylight-savings-time

George Washington Inaugural Buttons & Medalets 1789 & 1793 by J. Harold Cobb C.P.A.: https://kirkmitchell.tripod.com/CobbGW/GWIBM.pdf

Treasure hunting laws: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/130306-finders-keepers-treasure-hunting-law-uk-us

The Repatriation of Egyptian Art: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1054&context=jtlp

Treasure hunters allege the FBI made off with Civil War-era gold and covered it up: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/1104823285/treasure-hunters-fbi-gold-civil-war

Metal detectorist who stole £3m Viking hoard jailed for five more years: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/12/metal-detectorist-who-stole-3m-viking-hoard-jailed-for-five-more-years

Amistad (1997): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/

Skullduggery (1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEyACQ0Yvy0

Episode 90: Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas, Episode 6 (2024)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Today we’re making a sacrifice to the gods of the algorithm and reviewing an episode of Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas (2024). To help carry this burden, we’re joined by Dr. Andrew Kinkella, who helps us evaluate claims about the ancient Maya in this series’ sixth episode. How did ancient people learn to count? How did they find out that the sun exists? It’s a real mystery.

Check out Andrew Kinkella’s shows:

The Pseudo-Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo

The CRM Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/crmarchpodcast

Kinkella Teaches Archaeology: https://www.youtube.com/@KinkellaTeachesArchaeology

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In this episode:

Fingerprints of the Gods (1995) by Graham Hancock: https://ia803100.us.archive.org/8/items/fingerprintsofthegodsbygrahamhancock/Fingerprints%20of%20the%20Gods%20by%20Graham%20Hancock.pdf

Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882) by Ignatius Donnelly: https://archive.org/details/atlantisantedilu00donnuoft

Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl: https://www.worldhistory.org/Kukulcan/

Palenque: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/411/

Palaeolithic Calendars: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_115

How to track the solstices and equinoxes yourself: https://johnmuirlaws.com/sun-shadows-exploring-the-solstice-and-equinox/

Milky Way Mythology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way_(mythology)

Ayahuasca: https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/ayahuasca/

The Mayan Numeral System: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/waymakermath4libarts/chapter/the-mayan-numeral-system/

Serra da Paituna: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5173343/

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825211000262

Flint Dibble livestream with Ken Feder for #RealArchaeology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEimOPN_pO8

Homer Simpson deceptively edited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A

Episode 89: As Above, So Below (2014)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Today we’re getting spooky with As Above, So Below (2014), the story of yet another unethical archaeologist who has no qualms about breaking into sites, vandalizing artifacts, and never documenting anything. Unlike most archaeological heroes, however, she is forced to atone for these sins by passing through the nine levels of Hell, à la Dante’s Inferno.

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In this episode:

Visit the Paris Catacombs: https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en

The movie was actually filmed in the catacombs: https://ew.com/article/2014/08/28/as-above-so-below-dowdle/

The real Nicolas Flamel was not an alchemist: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/cobbling-together-legend-nicolas-flamel

Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell: https://www.thoughtco.com/dantes-9-circles-of-hell-741539

You can’t get a PhD in “Symbology”: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/09/in-the-dan-brown-books-robert-langdon-is-a-professor-of-religious-symbology-is-there-really-any-such-thing.html

Semiotics: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/courses/BIB/semio2.htm

The Sedlec Ossuary: https://sedlecossuary.com/

We ArE lIvInG iN a SiMuLaTiOn – R/sUpErStOnK kNoWs ThE tRuTh! https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/q0m68d/so_uh_anyone_read_manly_p_hall_lucifer_equals_741/

Manly P. Hall – The Secret Teachings of All Ages: http://www.themasonictrowel.com/books/hall_the_secret-teachings_of_all_ages/files/chapter_29.htm

“It’s the Trevi Fountain! There can be no question!”: https://comb.io/iPRAQX

Episode 88: Tar (2020)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 05:00:00 +0000

It’s October so we’re reviewing scary movies! Tár (2022) is the story of a groundbreaking orchestra conductor who… wait, that doesn’t sound right… Oh, I see, we actually watched Tar (2020), the story of a greasy prehistoric demon who emerges from the La Brea tar pits to haunt a small computer repair store. Well, Josh and Ross did – Kim messed up and watched the wrong movie, but we decided to spare her the ordeal and record the podcast anyway.

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Watch Tar (2020) on YouTube (with Sinhala subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5SN57t9OA

Academy Award Nominee Graham Greene as explosives expert Edgar Montrose on The Red Green Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyPjeeoVMU0

Predator Traps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_trap

Predator fossils from La Brea: https://tarpits.org/research-collections/tar-pits-collections

La Brea Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMKptjhffrM

Other tar pits: https://tarpits.org/tar-pits-world

Horses in the Americas: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-americans-spread-horses-through-the-west-earlier-than-thought-180981912/

Matchee Manitou: https://dchp.arts.ubc.ca/entries/Matchi%20Manitou

Episode 87: 65 (2023)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing the Adam Driver vehicle 65 (2023), a story about humans fighting dinosaurs, except the humans aren’t really humans and the dinosaurs aren’t really dinosaurs. We talk about Triassic archosaurs, shrink-wrapped dinosaurs, and “dinosauroids”, and try to figure out who this film was meant for.

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In this episode:

The tongue-eating louse: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/1048718433/the-tongue-eating-louse-does-exactly-what-its-name-suggests

Tyrannosaurs claw: https://www.theprehistoricstore.com/products/tyrannosaurus-rex-life-size-thumb-claw-replica

Velociraptor claw: https://www.fossilcrates.com/products/velociraptor-killing-claw-and-artwork

Dinopedia’s list of dinosaurs in 65: https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/65

Screen Rant’s list of dinosaurs in 65: https://screenrant.com/65-movie-dinosaurs-species-list/

Shrink-wrapping dinosaurs: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/tetrapod-zoology/dinosaurs-and-the-anti-shrink-wrapping-revolution/

The Sixth Extinction (2014) by Elizabeth Kolbert: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185/thesixthextinction

Times when you know the most about dinosaurs: https://i.imgur.com/8I6sTZW.png

65 Pitch Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FwjddnNMcM

The Dinosauroid: https://tetzoo.com/blog/2021/8/30/dinosauroid-at-nearly-40-years-old

Quicksand on Mythbusters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhV-WpY24nE

Episode 86: When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) w/ Greeced Lightning Podcast

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0000

When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) is an Italian sex comedy in which cave women of two warring tribes stage a sex strike until their cave men make peace. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s a stone-age adaptation of the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes. It’s all Greek to us, so we’ve invited Dr. Sara Hales-Brittain and Sam Siegel of the Greeced Lightning podcast to help us understand the erotic chicken cosplay, glory-hole fish emasculation, and petroleum-based conversion therapy. You heard me.

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Watch When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/when-men-carried-clubs-and-women-played-ding-dong

Read Lysistrata by Aristophanes: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7700/7700-h/7700-h.htm

Chi-Raq on Greeced Lightning: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chi-raq-lysistrata/id1667396859?i=1000623681450

Il Primo Re on Greeced Lightning: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/il-primo-re-the-founding-of-rome/id1667396859?i=1000641708307

Attila on SotSA: https://pasc-scpa.ca/sotsa/sotsa-e60

“Spare me your space-age techno-babble, Attila the Hun!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aid8hBOGePw

“Chickens don’t clap!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaS_WXQ9QK0

Circummingo: https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/verb/1700/

Petronius’ werewolf story: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0027%3Atext%3DSatyricon%3Asection%3D62

Lingurium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyngurium

Crannogs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crannog

Episode 85: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) w/ Dr. Advait Jukar

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Dr. Advait Jukar, our first ever guest, returns for another crack at the Ice Age franchise. In The Meltdown (2006), we catch up with the world’s most famous computer-animated megafauna as they flee climate change, and a snake-oil salesman, and vultures, and Mesozoic monsters, and in the end it turns out the stakes were never really that high. But if you like long lists of scientific names for animals, then you’re in for a treat!

Advait’s links:

Florida Museum of Natural History: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/

The Montbrook fossil site: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/sites/montbrook/

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https://worldofpaleoanthropology.org/

In this episode:

The Channeled Scablands: http://www.sevenwondersofwashingtonstate.com/the-channeled-scablands.html

The fan list of species we’re using in this episode: https://parody.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Species_in_Ice_Age_2:_The_Meltdown

Sloths:

Megalonyx:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalonyx

Nothrotheriops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothrotheriops

Eremotherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremotherium

Paramylodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramylodon

Armadillos:

Dasypus bellus, the beautiful armadillo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasypus_bellus

Pampatheres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampatheriidae

Holmesina (a genus of Pampathere): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmesina

Glyptodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptodon

Sea Creatures:

Huphesuchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hupehsuchus

Metriorhynchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metriorhynchus

Dakosaurus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakosaurus

Brachauchenius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachauchenius

Globidens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globidens

Pacus: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/pacu-fish.htm

Elephants:

Platybelodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platybelodon

Paracerotherium, the inspiration for Star Wars’ ATAT: https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-did-a-mega-mammal-inspire-star-wars/

Aphanobelodon: https://www.deviantart.com/cisiopurple/art/Aphanobelodon-zhaoi-939120720

Other animals:

Megaloceras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaloceros

Protoceratideae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoceratidae

Macrauchenia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrauchenia

Serranía de la Lindosa cave art: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0496

Chalicotherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalicotherium

Tylocephalonyx (dome-headed chalicothere): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylocephalonyx

Mylagaulidae (horned rodents): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylagaulidae

Bootherium (extinct Muskox): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootherium

Dodo (Raphuscucullatus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo

The only painting of a dodo from life? https://www.reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/ts256f/the_dodos_true_coloursa_dodo_that_was_painted/

Other dodo sketches from life: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228371340_The_history_of_the_Dodo_Raphus_cucullatus_and_the_penguin_of_Mauritius

The White Dodo: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/anh.2004.31.1.57

New woolly rhino mummy: https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/siberian-gold-miners-accidentally-find-ancient-woolly-rhino-mummy-with-horn-and-soft-tissues-still-intact

Episode 84: Quest for Fire (1981) w/ Seth Chagi

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re joined by Seth Chagi of World of Paleoanthropology to review a stone age classic: Quest for Fire (1981) hits almost all the caveman movie tropes, but to be fair, it probably originated most of them. We talk about the origins of controlled use of fire, “conlangs”, and how this movie has become more scientifically accurate over time.

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Watch Quest for Fire on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MV1H_bAt-E

Nonhuman ape sense of humour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJarjlRVZzY

Bonobos laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhlHx5ivGGk

Bonobo sex: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bonobo-sex-and-society-2006-06/

Sabre-toothed cats’ coat patterns: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/laelaps/did-saber-cats-have-spotted-and-striped-coats/

The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Ape

Anthony Burgess created the Ulam language: https://www.anthonyburgess.org/quest-for-fire/quest-for-language/

Australian firehawks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zcJs16aZ5s

Were there any human tribes who didn’t have the ability to start fire? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/872kfd/is_it_true_that_ther_arewere_isolated_peoples_who/

Episode 83: Jurassic Park 3 (2001) w/ Dr. Andrew Kinkella

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing the third movie in the Jurassic Park franchise with extra special returning guest and actual star of the film: Dr. Andrew Kinkella! He takes us behind the scenes of his breakout role as “Lecture Attendee #231” and reveals why he gave up his film aspirations to pursue a much more practical career in archaeology.

Listen to Dr. Andrew Kinkella on the Pseudo-Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork …

Kinkella Teaches Archaeology on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaREZDSg-l3pOyu0AW3tfjA

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The strange saga of Spinosaurus: https://carnegiemnh.org/the-strange-saga-of-spinosaurus-the-semiaquatic-dinosaurian-superpredator/

Spinosaurus, Baryonyx, and Suchomimus: https://www.sciencethatstuff.com/post/2018/03/01/spinosaurus-suchomimus-baryonyx-and-irritator-what-were-they-werent-they-all-just-the-sam

Pteranodon means “Toothless Wing”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteranodon

Velociraptor had feathers: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/velociraptor-facts.html

Tyrannosaurus had lips: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-had-lips-that-concealed-its-teeth-study-says-180981914/

The history of 3D printing: https://www.autodesk.com/design-make/articles/history-of-3d-printing

Egyptian mummy voice reconstruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Iok_QiE64

Paleontologist Jack Horner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Horner_(paleontologist)

Episode 82: It’s About Time S01E01 (1966)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Ross is away today but undergrad student Zach Hoorman is filling in to help us review the first episode of It’s About Time (1966), a sitcom from the creator of Gilligan’s Island about two astronauts who accidentally “break the time barrier” and find themselves stranded one million years in the past. There’s not much real palaeoanthropology to talk about in this episode, so instead Josh does a poor job of explaining Einstein’s theory of special relativity.

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Watch It’s About Time on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QguKIuhEiI

Neanderthal eyes and brains: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21759233

Just-so stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story

Hair in the Palaeolithic: https://www.academia.edu/81780985/Bad_Hair_Days_in_the_Paleolithic_Modern_Re_Constructions_of_the_Cave_Man?f_ri=2403396

Einstein’s theory of special relativity: https://www.space.com/36273-theory-special-relativity.html

The speed of light on a train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVKFBaaL4uM

1960s car crash songs: https://riffmagazine.com/mp3/rewind-20220122/

Episode 81: Firebringer (2016)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Firebringer (2016) is a musical play about the discovery of fire by a tribe of polyamourous, matriarchal ancient humans. They also invent stone tools, art, hunting—they pretty much hit all the classic caveman tropes, and even subvert some of them. The only problem is… it’s a musical.

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Watch Firebringer (2016) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmVuNlu0LCk

The earliest controlled use of fire: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2743299

The oldest stone tools: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32804177

Neanderthals hafted tools with birch tar: https://www.science.org/content/article/50000-year-old-tar-smeared-tool-shows-neanderthal-smarts

The oldest cave paintings: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap7778

Divje Babe Neanderthal “flute”: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/holes-in-a-bone-flute-or-fluke

Palaeolithic Lithophones: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0092.1985.tb00229.x

Homo naledi: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-naledi-your-most-recently-discovered-human-relative.html

Early art at Blombos Cave: https://theconversation.com/south-africas-blombos-cave-is-home-to-the-earliest-drawing-by-a-human-103017

Goog Enough on Twitter: https://x.com/goog_enough

Sima de los Huesos: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-sima-hominins-an-ancient-human-cold-case

The Mauer mandible: https://efossils.org/page/boneviewer/homo%20heidelbergensis/Mauer%201

Bae et al. (2023) Moving away from “the Muddle in the Middle” toward solving the Chibanian puzzle: https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.22011

Roksandic et al. (2021) Resolving the “muddle in the middle”: The case for Homo bodoensis sp. nov. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21929

The Middle Pleistocene was renamed to “Chibanian”: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chibanian-age-earths-newly-named-geological-period-180974224/

Episode 80: Evolution (2001)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Evolution (2001) is a star-studded soft-disclosure propaganda film masquerading as a shampoo commercial intended to prepare us for extraterrestrial butt stuff. I think? I mean it doesn’t seem to know what evolution is. In this episode we discuss organic chemistry, asexual reproduction, and Lamarckism, and also firetrucks for some reason.

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Lamarckism: https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/1800s/early-concepts-of-evolution-jean-baptiste-lamarck/

In this episode:

Evolution (2001) production information: https://www.cinema.com/articles/458/evolution-production-information.phtml

Tillers and Quillers (i.e. fire trucks): https://www.fireapparatusmagazine.com/features/cantankerous-wisdom-tillers-quillers/

Head and Shoulders “Intensive treatment”: https://reference.medscape.com/drug/selsun-blue-tersifoam-selenium-sulfide-topical-343485

Asexual reproduction in plants: https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_General_Biology/Biology_(Kimball)/16%3A_The_Anatomy_and_Physiology_of_Plants/16.03%3A_Reproduction_in_Plants/16.3E%3A_Asexual_Reproduction_in_Plants

Stephen J. Gould (1989) Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History: https://archive.org/details/wonderfullifebur0000goul_r6i5/page/n7/mode/2up

Multiple sexes in fungi: https://www.the-scientist.com/this-fungus-has-more-than-17-000-sexes-69930

Starfish Regeneration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_regeneration

Hypothetical types of biochemistry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry

Natural Gas Odorizers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odorizer

Evolution wouldn’t follow the same path twice: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190709-would-humans-evolve-again-if-we-rewound-time

Episode 79: Adam and Eve Meet the Cannibals (1983)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Adam and Eve (Bingo!) Meet the Cannibals (Bingo!) tells the story of two blond (Bingo!) early humans who are banished from their home (Bingo!) and go on a rambling journey (Bingo!) where they encounter dinosaurs (Bingo!) and several tribes of cave people. Of course, everyone will be familiar with the plot because it’s a loose adaptation of the famous story, The Quest for Fire. What’s that? “Bible”? “Genesis”? Never heard of it.

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Where did Cain’s wife come from? https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/department/biblical-views-who-did-cain-marry/

In this episode:

Cannibalism in the bible: https://www.openbible.info/topics/cannibalism

Simian and feline immunodeficiency viruses (SIV and FIV): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1659310/

Disease transmission by cannibalism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2189571/

Can vampires get HIV? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/nwcs93/vampires_can_vampires_get_hiv_or_aids/

How many holes does a human have? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ

Can you run a string through your entire GI tract? https://www.straightdope.com/21341206/can-yogas-swallow-a-cloth-and-have-it-come-out-the-urk-other-end

Family Guy Seagulls are not cannibals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG0MxhkQ67w

Origin and diversification of birds: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.003

Plants take up chronic wasting disease prions in the lab: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wasting-disease/plants-can-take-cwd-causing-prions-soil-lab-what-happens-if-they-are-eaten

Kuru disease: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/kuru

Did Adam and Eve have bellybuttons? https://www.doesgodexist.org/SepOct06/TheGreatBellyButtonDebate.html

Men don’t have fewer ribs than women: https://answersingenesis.org/creationism/arguments-to-avoid/women-have-more-ribs-than-men/

Was Eve made from Adam’s baculum? https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/ncbi-rofl-what-did-god-do-with-adams-penis-bone

Os clitoridis (baubellum): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_clitoridis

Episode 78: Cavemen S01E01 Her Embarrassed of Caveman (2007)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 26 May 2024 05:00:00 +0000

If you were watching American TV in 2004, then you remember the Geico caveman commercials. What you might not remember is that they spun off a sitcom: Cavemen (2007), starring Nick Kroll, was cancelled after only six episodes and is considered one of the worst TV series of all time. But how does it hold up to scientific scrutiny? Find out on today’s episode, where we do the research the screenwriters didn’t!

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In this episode:

The Geico caveman commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8o_YqzMBoo

Watch the full Cavemen series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9Q41jqFKU&list=PL81C5835E560AE6BE

Green et al. (2010) A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1188021

Green et al. (2006) Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05336

Denny, the first generation Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/24/denisovan-neanderthal-hybrid-denny-dna-finder-project

Interbreeding between archaic humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans

“Ghost lineages” in human ancestry: https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-ghost-populations-had-multiple-trysts-human-ancestors

Oase 1 – a modern human with recent Neanderthal ancestry: https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature14558

Bacho Kiro – modern humans with recent Neanderthal ancestry: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03335-3

Nikolai Valuev (is not a Neanderthal): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Valuev

Allometry: https://www.britannica.com/science/allometry

Episode 77: JRE #2136 Graham Hancock and Flint Dibble (2024)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 12 May 2024 05:00:00 +0000

It finally happened! Archaeologist Flint Dibble faced-off against pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan Experience, so we’ve invited Dr. Andrew Kinkella to help us break down this four-and-a-half-hour-long podcast episode! Was there an advanced civilization before the Younger Dryas? Find out once and for all in this episode!

Listen to Dr. Andrew Kinkella on the Pseudo-Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo

Kinkella Teaches Archaeology on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KinkellaTeachesArchaeology

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Watch JRE#2136 Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-DL1_EMIw6w?si=2iZKAAz5vHIVdcP_

Flint Dibble on why he did JRE – Sapiens: https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/graham-hancock-joe-rogan-archaeology/

John Hoopes on Hancock’s book Talisman: https://twitter.com/KUHoopes/status/1598744692321026065?lang=en

Aaron Rabinowitz on antisemitism in Hancock’s work – The Skeptic: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/02/netflixs-ancient-apolocalypse-hosted-by-graham-hancock-from-alien-conspiracies-to-antisemitism/

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion

I forgot to mention! Hancock wrote about about a lost civilization on Mars. He has definitely supported the ancient aliens hypothesis: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53330.The_Mars_Mystery

The Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate: https://www.youtube.com/live/z6kgvhG3AkI?si=Xc1SRmSBCYO7d5l2

Andrew Kinkella on Wired Tech Support: https://youtu.be/pUstiwexvkI?si=AV2ql0wjBsJvjpsQ

Flint Dibble on Archaeosoup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pVbAT8LORA

Stefan Milo – Atlantis is Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWugM4XRPuc

Archaeodeath with Fredrik Trusoham of Digging Up Ancient Aliens on the Dibble/Hancock debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOzxl7wyTDs

Andrew Kinkella on the Dibble/Hancock debate: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo/140

Episode 76: Evolution’s Child (1999)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing Evolution’s Child (1999), a made-for-TV movie in which a woman is accidentally impregnated by sperm from an Ötzi-inspired ice mummy, and ultimately gives birth to a child with magical bronze age powers—and one fatal weakness. We talk ancient diseases, DNA contamination, and genetic memory, and Ross reassures us that this probably won’t happen at your local IVF clinic.

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Alzheimer’s disease throughout history: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00052-9

Origins of sickle cell disease: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/blood-types/diversity/african-american-blood-donors/history-of-sickle-cell-disease.html

Ancient pollution from metallurgy: https://vice.com/en/article/z4m7e4/ancient-metallurgy-suggests-the-anthropocene-started-thousands-of-years-ago

Present-day DNA contamination in ancient DNA: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000081

A woman requested to be impregnated by Ötzi’s sperm: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418206/

Evolution of lactase persistence: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230503/What-is-lactase-persistence-and-how-did-it-evolve.aspx

Museum of Anthropology, UBC: https://moa.ubc.ca/

Robson Square Steps: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/robson-square-accessibility-1.5255477

Epigenetics: https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/epigenetics.htm

“Genetic memory” in mice: https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnn.3594

Epigenetic effects of famines: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.html

Geordi is a fucking incel: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/9uz83w/remember_the_time_dr_brahms_stumbled_upon_geordis/

Star trek the Next Futurama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU09gLXwc_A&list=PLghELjfG88YEGpW22Y5AAZxiihGj3qEPb

Episode 75: Out of Darkness (2022)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 05:00:00 +0000

We rarely the get change to review a newly released caveman movie, so we’re really excited about Out of Darkness (2022), the story of Upper Palaeolithic modern humans venturing into Europe for the first time, and encountering a mysterious enemy. What could it be? Well if you’ve kept up with the field of palaeoanthropology over the last twenty or thirty years, it’s probably exactly what you expect!

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Palaeolithic thaumatrope/whirlygig: https://rockartblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/prehistoric-animation-paleolithic.html

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06923-7

Microliths of the Aurignacian: https://doi.org/10.1525/ap3a.2002.12.1.83

Earliest evidence of woven fabric: https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-textiles-172909

Hairdos in prehistoric Europe: https://richlyadorned.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/hairdos-in-prehistoric-europe/

Prehistoric humans had better teeth than we do: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/prehistoric-humans-had-better-teeth-than-we-do-26567282/

Fictional languages are called “conlangs”: https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/

Self defense against strangulation: https://mbcc.mt.gov/_docs/Events/Educational-Power-Hour/Strangulation-Response/Safety-Plan-Brochure-Strangulation.pdf

David Bock does our graphic design; check out his amazing work! https://www.dkbock.com/

Check out our great new YouTube title cards! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC04f7AHZm92A0wGw-kA6yww

Episode 74: Star Trek: TNG S06E20 The Chase (1993)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re travelling to the 24th century to discover humans’ earliest ancestors in The Chase, a 1993 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which Captain Picard gets a chance to follow the road not taken and fulfill his dream of being an archaeologist. We talk pottery, ancient DNA, and linear progressive evolution.

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Pottery by Aurora: https://www.instagram.com/potterybyaurora/

Archaeological laws and ethics: https://www.saa.org/about-archaeology/archaeology-law-ethics

Naiskos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiskos

Polychrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychrome

Seth Rogen’s Sidecar Ashtray: https://www.houseplant.com/products/sidecar-ashtray

Xenoarchaeology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoarchaeology

Animals with archaeological records: https://www.livescience.com/which-animals-use-stone-tools

Ancient DNA (aDNA): https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frstb.2013.0371

Environmental DNA (eDNA): https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/environmental-dna-edna

Marine sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA): https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1185435

Episode 73: The Beast from the Beginning of Time (1965)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:00:00 +0000

The Beast from the Beginning of Time (1965) is a story we’ve seen many times: archaeologists find a caveman who wakes up and kills everyone. It doesn’t have the camp of Trog, or the star power of Horror Express, or the quotable lines of The Neanderthal Man, or the catchy surf-rock tunes of Eegah, or the budget of Neander-Jin… Well, enjoy the episode.

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Watch The Beast from the Beginning of Time on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxtboADRTuw

Liquid scintillation counting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdFWcJFMUlI

Rigor mortis: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-causes-rigor-mortis-601995

Lichtenberg figures (Lightning fern burns): https://www.glenallenweather.com/alink/20thunder/Lichtenberg%20Figures.pdf

Thagomizer: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/07/thagomizer-why-stegosaurus-spiky-tail.html

Learn more about archaeological giants on Digging Up Ancient Aliens: https://diggingupancientaliens.com/episode-55-giants.html

The Myth of the Moundbuilders: https://www.thoughtco.com/moundbuilder-myth-history-and-death-171536

J.B.S. Haldane’s “Precambrian rabbits”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precambrian_rabbit

Episode 72: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) tells the story of Hushpuppy, a young girl living with her daddy in the Louisiana bayou, adapting to a changing world: her father is dying, the climate is warming, and prehistoric beasts are returning from the ice to haunt her. Aurochs, the titular beasts, were real Pleistocene animals – although the movie takes some artistic liberties. It’s a wonderful movie with many layers, but the only one we’re really qualified to dissect is the evolution of cows.

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Aurochs, the extinct wild ox: https://www.britannica.com/animal/aurochs

Aurochs behind the scenes in Beasts of the Southern Wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUE0VXyLi7w

Get Ross’ book! The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain’s Lost Mammals: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/missing-lynx-9781472957351/

When the Nazis tried to bring back animals from extinction: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-nazis-tried-bring-animals-back-extinction-180962739/

Cows Gone Wild: The Cattle of Heck: Cows Gone Wild: The Cattle of Heck: https://daily.jstor.org/cows-gone-wild-the-cattle-of-heck/

The Lascaux Shaft Scene: https://alistaircoombs.com/2018/08/24/the-lascaux-shaft-scene/

Cows kill more people than sharks or crocodiles: https://www.businessinsider.com/deadliest-animals-us-dont-include-sharks-crocodiles-dogs-cows-2019-8

Elysian Fields: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-were-the-elysian-fields-in-greek-mythology-116736

Episode 71: Music Videos

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:05:00 +0000

Today we’re diving into the music industry and reviewing seven stone age music videos: from Pearl Jam to Wu-Tang Clan, from folk to metal, musicians seem to love the ancient past. We explore the intersection of art and science, the way every generation projects their own ideals onto the past, and the disturbing amount of sperm in these videos!

Featured music videos:

Fatboy Slim – Right Here, Right Now (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8

Pearl Jam – Do the Evolution (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI

Stoner Kings – Cro Magnon (2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8HpWcF1tL0

Wu-Tang Clan – Gravel Pit (2000): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of-lpfsBR8U

Josh Ritter – The Curse (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxWxiuJRApU

Caroline Polachek – Welcome To My Island (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxgcz_6GKX0

Hotlegs – Neanderthal Man (1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e0qYP_PTlY

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https://www.straightdope.com/21343548/after-the-1929-stock-market-crash-did-investors-really-jump-out-of-windows

In this episode:

A new placoderm fish was just published with a huge underbite like the one in the Fatboy Slim video! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231747

The Miller-Urey experiment: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment

The myth of the 1929 stock market crash suicides:

Cro magnon 1 had a tumorous face: https://www.newsweek.com/cro-magnon-1-had-skin-disorder-causing-face-be-covered-tumors-867225

Stoner Kings: Alpha Male (2019): https://stonerkings.bandcamp.com/album/alpha-male

Michael Majalhati, the Canadian Rebel Starbuck: https://majalahti.com/

Hevisaurus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhhlYdySqQ

Winds of Genocide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br19bey-TPA

Cemican: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UTRDQtpgL8

Heilung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbc_Fwbt50

Jurassic Park Scarf: https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Jurassic-Park-Large-Knitted-Scarf-When-Dinosaurs-Ruled-The-Earth/PRD77TLFPB7K79C

Josh Ritter on Q (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-vLDmvvjHY The Chimera of Arezzo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_of_Arezzo

Caroline Polachek visits a Przewalski’s horse with Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/caroline-polachek-desire-new-album-profile.html

Episode 70: Master of the World (1983)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 06:00:00 +0000

We’re getting back to our roots with Master of the World (1983), an Italian film about modern humans and Neanderthals, and cave bears, and cannibalism, and fighting! And herons. And a plot? Well this is an artistic film, so if you didn’t get it then maybe you’re just not as evolved as we are.

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-018-0016-8

In this episode:

The world’s oldest spears: https://archive.archaeology.org/9705/newsbriefs/spears.html

Modern humans ate Neanderthals? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/may/17/neanderthals-cannibalism-anthropological-sciences-journal

The Fore people and Kuru disease: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged

Endocannibalism, finger amputation, and other funerary practices: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-these-5-death-rituals-from-around-the-world-honor-the-dead

You’re Wrong About – Survival in the Andes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flight-571-survival-in-the-andes-with-blair-braverman/id1380008439?i=1000584554361

The Last Podcast on the Left – Survival in the Andes: https://podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/episode-557-survival-in-the-andes-part-i-stayin-alive/id437299706?i=1000638739044

The Cult of the Cave Bear: https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-cult-of-the-cave-bear/

A Cross-cultural Perspective on Upper Palaeolithic Hand Images with Missing Phalanges:

I couldn’t find an ethnographic source for the use of birthing poles, but here’s an article from OrgasmicBirth.com: https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/birthing-pole/

Were bees the source of the Shanidar burial pollen? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/28/study-casts-doubt-on-neanderthal-flower-burial-theory

Samson killed a thousand men with a donkey’s jawbone: https://www.bible.com/bible/compare/JDG.15.16

Chewbacca’s voice: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/the-remarkable-way-chewbacca-got-a-voice/375697/

Badger badger badger… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1jEh2bUWuM

Episode 69: Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 06:00:00 +0000

It’s Episode 69, dude! So we watched Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), the classic time-travel movie starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as two slackers collecting historical figures to help them pass their history final in order to save a future civilization founded on their band’s music. Imagine how weird that sentence would sound if you had never seen this movie–but of course you have seen it. And just in case you missed it, there are nine seconds featuring cave people in this movie, so it counts!

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Graphic Designer David Bock designed our logo: https://www.dkbock.com/

Oldest evidence of controlled use of fire: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans

Finlayson et al. (2012) Birds of a Feather: Neanderthal Exploitation of Raptors and Corvids: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0045927

Neanderthals wore eagle talons as jewellery: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.17095

Roebrooks et al. (2012) Use of red ochre by early Neandertals: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1112261109

The evolution of language: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.96.14.8028

Acheulean Handaxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe

Know your King Henrys: https://www.historyhit.com/the-8-king-henrys-of-england-in-order/

The Iron Maiden was an 18th Century myth: https://www.livescience.com/55985-are-iron-maidens-torture-devices.html

Napoleon wasn’t that short: https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/napoleon-short.htm

Bonus Episode: Il Primo Re – Greeced Lightning Podcast

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:47:23 +0000

If you like Screens of the Stone Age, you’re gonna love Greeced Lightning, a podcast about Greek and Roman mythology and history in movies! Sara and Sam joined us for our review of Attila, and here we present the other half of that collaboration:

Greeced Lightning is back! We’re kicking off Season 2 with a foreign film and a very special guest. Josh Lindal of Screens of the Stone Age podcast joins us for the story of Romulus and Remus and the movie Il Primo Re: twin drama, swamp settlements, ancient hominids, and how often we think about the Roman Empire.

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Episode 68: Brother Bear (2003)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Happy New Year! To kick of 2024 we’re reviewing Disney’s Brother Bear (2003), the story of a human learning to be nice to animals by being forced to live as one. This is low-key a stone age movie – it’s set in Beringia during the Pleistocene, but other than some mammoths and glaciers, it doesn’t shove its stone-age-ness in your face. In this episode we talk cave art, megafauna, and, as always, Canadiana.

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Bob and Doug McKenzie: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=C_IXyCsZ4bA&list=OLAK5uy_kmIuOa4rRCtjC9tBvhOf35Nda6aV6G-ro

Buy yerself a toque, eh? https://toque.ca/

Petroforms in Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba: https://whiteshellpetroforms.com/

Navajo Sand Painting: https://navajopeople.org/navajo-sand-painting.htm

Indigenous languages of the Arctic: https://www.arcticpeoples.com/sagastallamin-arctic-languages

The Peopling of the North American Arctic: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferraff/2019/06/13/the-peopling-of-the-north-american-arctic/

Bald eagle vs. red-tailed hawk calls: https://www.treehugger.com/you-know-call-bald-eagle-you-hear-tv-thats-not-bald-eagle-4864532

The last woolly mammoths went extinct on Wrangel Island 4000 years ago: https://www.livescience.com/woolly-mammoth-genetic-problems.html

The St. Paul Island mammoths: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/st-paul-island-mammoths-most-accurately-dated-prehistoric-extinction-ever/

Pleistocene megafauna of Beringia: https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-17-1-4.htm

HOPE Lab merch: https://www.facebook.com/people/HOPE-lab/100090365641812/

Episode 67: Saving Christmas Spirit (2022)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Saving Christmas Spirit (2022) is the story of a holiday-hating archaeologist who must travel to Scotland on Christmas to save her job, where she falls in love with a failing Scotch distiller (get it? Spirit? Scotch? It’s a pun! Do you get it?). Ross tells us everything wrong with this movie’s depiction of the Scottish Highlands (also we talk about archaeology).

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In this episode:

The Canadian Barn Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc0yO39IRKg

The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd: https://www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/

Reindeer velvet: https://www.reindeerfarm.com/blog/reindeer-velvet/

The Broddenbjerg idol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broddenbjerg_idol

The Ballachulish Idol: https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/scottish-history-and-archaeology/ballachulish-figure/

Knocknagel Boar Stone: https://highlandpictishtrail.co.uk/project/knocknagael-boar-stone/

Who were the Picts? https://www.digitscotland.com/who-were-the-picts/

Flipco Hand Held Metal Detector Super Scanner with Beep Vibrator on Amazon: https://www.amazon.in/Flipco-Metal-Detector-Scanner-Vibrator/dp/B01NCQAKL6

How ground penetrating radar works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNO9DNFxMQ

Glenfinnan Viaduct (Harry Potter Train): https://www.belmond.com/ideas/articles/harry-potter-glenfinnan-viaduct

Scottish Clans: https://www.highlandtitles.com/scottish-clans-and-families/

Episode 66: After School (1988)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 06:00:00 +0000

After School (1988) is the story of Father Mack, a catholic priest trying really hard to justify sleeping with one of his students. What does this have to do with the Stone Age? Well, inexplicably – INEXPLICABLY – the movie is intercut with scenes of cave people frolicking in a Palaeolithic Garden of Eden. Need answers? Too bad, we don’t have any.

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In this episode:

Watch After School (1988) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBFkgD3zGjg

After School on God Awful Movies podcast: https://audioboom.com/posts/7903200-after-school

40% of Americans believe in Creationism: https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx

Mastering the Theremin (1995): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-UaASv-Lvo

Episode 65: Pokémon (1997-)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing two episodes of Pokémon, a dystopian anime series in which children enslave innocent creatures and force them to fight for their entertainment. In Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon, the protagonists stumble upon a paleontological dig where they awaken giant monsters that battle in a climactic showdown. In The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis, the gang stumbles upon an archaeological dig where… they awaken giant monsters that battle in a climactic showdown. Having never seen another episode, we have to assume they all end this way.

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In this episode:

Watch Pokémon S01E43 Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon: https://watch.pokemon.com/en-us/#/player?id=0a657dfae0894320a49882266647e7c0

Watch Pokémon S02E18 The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis: https://watch.pokemon.com/en-us/#/player?id=fb65911f65ed4d4588cbe3180451027c

The Bone Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8s9_64mDsI

The Gilded Dinosaur by Mark Jaffe: https://search.worldcat.org/title/gilded-dinosaur-the-fossil-war-between-ed-cope-and-oc-marsh-and-the-rise-of-american-science/oclc/890171516

Rocket Robin Hood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSsEgQrjVFA&list=PLLhOnau-tupQnECF0Y36FFYceCGHtTxzG&index=1

Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the Pokémon:

Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokémon: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Satoshi_Tajiri

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1337010/Alba_A_Wildlife_Adventure/

Marshallese cowrie shell breadfruit peeler: https://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/essays/es-tmc-4.html

Aerodactylus, actually a real pterosaur: https://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/aerodactylus.html

Brian David Gilbert’s Pokérap: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rJTeVOOFMHM

Episode 64: The Lost City (2022)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing The Lost City (2022), the story of an archaeologist-turned-romance author who gets swept up in an archaeological adventure which parallels the outlandish plots of her novels. This movie features a star-studded cast, including Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt, Daniel Radcliffe, and Channing Tatum’s butt. But how accurate is the archaeology in this movie? Let’s find out!

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El Dorado: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20964114

Heinrich Schliemann found, and nearly destroyed, the city of Troy: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-many-myths-of-the-man-who-discoveredand-nearly-destroyedtroy-180980102/

The UNESCO 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_1970_Convention

The Lovers of Valdaro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_of_Valdaro

The Lovers of Modena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_of_Modena

The “leaky pipeline” in archaeology: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/leaky-pipeline-and-chilly-climate-in-archaeology-in-canada/B5224D9F4FDB3BAE4624A5079FB67C6A

Check out Ross’s book! The Missing Lynx: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/missing-lynx-9781472957351/

Episode 63: Black Mountain Side (2014)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 05:00:00 +0000

We’re continuing our Halloween-themed month with Black Mountain Side (2014), a very Canadian indie horror film in which a team of archaeologists in a remote northern outpost are driven to madness by a Lovecraftian deer-god. We’re starting to get the impression that you can’t write archaeological horror without parasites crawling under skin and impromptu amputations. But at least this one has actual archaeology in it!

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Clovis points: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2021/02/08/whats-the-point-all-about-clovis-points/

The ice-free corridor: https://www.thoughtco.com/ice-free-corridor-clovis-pathway-171386

“Clovis First” debunked: https://bigthink.com/the-past/ice-free-corridor-clovis-americas/

Meadowcroft Rockshelter: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/145-1409/features/2369-peopling-the-americas-meadowcroft-rockshelter

Monte Verde: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/150-features/americans/2368-peopling-the-americas-monte-verde

White Sands footprints, dated to 23,000 BP: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh5007

Capuchin Monkeys made stone tools in Brazil: https://www.sciencealert.com/monkeys-not-humans-made-ancient-sets-of-stone-tools-in-brazil-study-finds

The Cerutti Mastodon Site: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/busted-mastodon-is-ice-age-roadkill/

SSHRC – The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.aspx

CRM vs. Academia (Kinkella Teaches Archaeology): https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BLBlxW_a2dQ

Episode 62: The Ruins (2008)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 05:00:00 +0000

We’re continuing spooky month with The Ruins (2008), which we reasonably assumed was about archaeology. Turns out the actual Maya ruins on which the movie takes place are really incidental to the plot, which is centred on the least scary thing we can imagine. Here’s a list of things scarier than the monster in this movie: caterpillars; the X-Men franchise; poison ivy; AI-written books. Anyway, enjoy the episode.

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Maya architecture: https://www.worldhistory.org/Maya_Architecture/

“Nesting doll” structure of Maya pyramids: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38008546

Maya cities discovered with lidar: https://www.livescience.com/lidar-maya-civilization-guatemala

Septicemia is blood infection, not bone infection: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/septicemia

“Is there a doctor?” meme: https://imgflip.com/meme/165098350/Is-there-a-doctor-around

Beware the Higad caterpillar!: http://avrotor.blogspot.com/2016/01/beware-of-spiny-caterpillar-higad.html

The Russian sleep Experiment: Creepypasta: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-russian-sleep-experiment/

AI is writing books about foraging: https://civileats.com/2023/10/10/ai-is-writing-books-about-foraging-what-could-go-wrong/

Water Hemlock – the deadliest plant in North America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicuta

Edibility test for wild plants: https://www.backpacker.com/skills/universal-edibility-test/

Safe plants for survival situations: https://www.sunnysports.com/blog/common-wild-plants-can-eat-survival/

Nettle beer recipe: https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/nettle-beer-recipe

XKCD on Brassica: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2827:_Brassica

Episode 61: Sabretooth (2002)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 05:00:00 +0000

It’s October, which means it’s time for scary movies! We’re starting with one that is not scary: Sabretooth (2002) is a made-for-TV Sci-Fi channel movie about an evil geneticist and a greedy capitalist who resurrect a Smilodon, which escapes and starts eating teenagers in the woods. This movie has bad CGI, a C- genetics lab, and John Rhys-Davies, who must have taken time off from Lord of the Rings to be in it.

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Watch Sabretooth on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxVEANFmfxs

Bear Safety: https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/mtn/ours-bears/securite-safety/ours-humains-bears-people

How to identify cat tracks: https://www.bear-tracker.com/caninevsfeline.html

Josh concedes – there are puppets in the closeups: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284445/mediaviewer/rm4037833472/?ref_=tt_md_1

Ross’ first paper – Barnett et al. 2005. Evolution of the extinct Sabretooths and the American cheetah-like cat. Current Biology, 15(15), R589-R590: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(05)00836-5.pdf

American vs. British spelling: https://www.oxfordinternationalenglish.com/differences-in-british-and-american-spelling/

Bats – unfairly maligned? https://www.merlintuttle.org/ebola-bats-prematurely-blamed/

Brief Update: YouTube Video Game Reviews

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 05:07:41 +0000

Recently Josh invited Kim and Ross on a wildlife hike in Skyrim. You can listen to that conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EfGDRrcb274

If you want to see more stone age video game reviews, make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, and let us know which archaeology- and palaeontology-related video games you’d like us to review!

Episode 60: Attila (2001) with the Greeced Lightning Podcast

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing Attila (2001), a two-part TV miniseries about the infamous king of the Huns, who was a different person from Genghis Khan. We know so little about this period that we needed to invite some guests to help us out: Sara Hales-Brittain and Sam Siegel from the Greeced Lightning podcast join us to talk about trebuchets, armour styles, and how Gerard Butler’s abs defeated the Roman Empire.

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Sara’s Sources:

A translation of Priscus’s account of his diplomatic visit to Attila’s court: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/priscus1.asp

A translation of Jordanes’s description of Attila: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/jordanes-attila.asp

A great overview of Roman history, including late antiquity and the “fall” of Rome: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300198317/ancient-rome/

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Watch Hollywood Action Movies 2016 English – Adventure Movies 2016 Hollywood – New War Movies 2016 for free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nrEXMXgjDE

Catapults vs. trebuchets: https://www.dictionary.com/e/trebuchet-vs-catapult/

Evolution of Roman Armour: https://discover.hubpages.com/education/evolution-of-the-roman-infantry-armor

Attila and Lord of the Rings: https://www.blackgate.com/2012/02/26/tolkien-and-attila/

Gerard Butler’s abs destroyed the Roman Empire (Reddit film review): https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/2h3aui/gerard_butlers_abs_destroyed_the_roman_empire_a/

Viminacium Archaeological Park, Serbia: http://viminacium.org.rs/en/

Episode 59: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) with the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 05:00:00 +0000

A new Indiana Jones movie came out this summer, so we’re reviewing an old one! Gabe Hrynick and Ken Holyoke of the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast join us to talk about The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), widely regarded as probably the worst Indiana Jones movie. Is it really that bad? We break down the fridge, the monkeys, and the “magnetism”, and dip our toes into archaeological theory in this episode!

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In this episode:

A Belizean Archaeologist sued Lucasfilm over the depiction of the crystal skull: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/indiana-jones-lawsuit-seeks-hollywood-399236/

The real story behind the crystal skulls: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-real-story-behind-aztec-crystal-skulls

Acquisition history of the Mitchell-Hedges Skull: https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/mitchell_hedges/acquisition_history.html

Artificial Cranial Deformation: https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/what-do-we-call-artificial-cranial-deformation-in-archaeology-and-why-did-ancient-civilizations-practised-it

They’re “interdimensional beings”, not “extraterrestrials”: https://gamerant.com/indiana-jones-kingdom-crystal-skull-aliens-explained/

Spanish Conquistadors and Peruvian Mummies: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/fascinating-afterlife-perus-mummies-180956319/

Indiana Jones and Colonialism: https://sumauma.com/en/indiana-jones-o-arqueologo-mais-racista-do-mundo-volta-a-atacar/

For the Nuer, twins are birds: https://thewonderoftwins.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/anthropologys-twins/

The Culture-Historical approach in Archaeology: https://www.thoughtco.com/cultural-historical-method-170544

Processual Archaeology (The “New” Archaeology): https://www.anoxfordhistorian.com/post/new-processual-archaeology-an-introduction

Kevin McGeough (2006). Heroes, mummies, and treasure: Near Eastern archaeology in the movies. Near Eastern Archaeology, 69(3-4), 174-185. (pdf): https://opus.uleth.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/9b1d05d3-ea88-4fbf-bc8c-244439c721f9/content

The North American House Hippo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0rA

Canada Heritage Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmXzagGJ1EQ&list=PL1848FF9428CA9A4A

Drugs Drugs Drugs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrhuaj540Aw

Don’t put it in your mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuLkMBAFZg

Episode 58: Ironmaster (1983)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re getting back to our roots with a true caveman movie: Ironmaster (1983) tells the story of a tribe of stone age bodybuilders and shampoo models who discover ironworking in a volcano and go on a rampage massacring their neighbours with swords, and the only one who can stop them is an oily-chested steroid enthusiast.

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In this episode:

Who is Sam Pasco and why is nobody talking about him? https://fred-andersson.medium.com/who-is-sam-pasco-and-why-is-nobody-talking-about-him-27448be38610

Seriously, check out this movie poster (nsfw): https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/xuRG2gSnEdqj6Sqsai3z8kujrmP.jpg

Custer State Park, South Dakota: https://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/parks-monuments/custer-state-park

King Tut’s meteorite dagger: https://www.livescience.com/61214-king-tut-dagger-outer-space.html

The Cape York meteorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_meteorite

Telluric (Native) iron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluric_iron

Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177127

Pallasite meteorites look otherworldly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallasite

Syphilis and leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in archaeology: https://emberarchaeology.ca/infectious-diseases-in-the-archaeological-record/

History of the bow and arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_and_arrow#History

How to shoot a bow and arrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGIASAOoa0

Thanks to Duncan for confirmation of UofA’s Egyptian Mummy! https://sites.ualberta.ca/~publicas/folio/35/18/10.HTM

X-Rays and CT scans of the University of Alberta’s Egyptian Mummy: https://calgary.thessea.org/ct-scans-uofas-egyptian-mummy/

Episode 57: The Mummy (1999) with Jay Jay and Patty

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Ross is away today but we’re joined by Jay Jay and Patty from the University of the Philippines to discuss The Mummy (1999), a remake of the classic Universal monster movie which has become a classic in its own right. Regular listeners know how much we love Brendan Fraser and also that we don’t know anything about Ancient Egypt, so Patty and Jay Jay help us navigate the history of papyrus, pigments, and petitions to drink coffin juice.

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In this episode:

University of the Philippines Diliman School of Archaeology: https://archaeology.upd.edu.ph/

Jay Jay’s ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arturo-Joseph-Iii-Tablan

Seti I, second Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty: https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/seti-I.html

Corridor Crew reacts to The Mummy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lKBaK-Q40Y

Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_cosmetics_in_ancient_Egypt

What King Tut’s tomb really cursed? https://daily.jstor.org/was-it-really-a-mummys-curse/

The history of library catalogues: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/01/04/cataloging-evolves/

The history of the Hebrew language: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hebrew-language

The petition to drink the red mummy juice: https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/scientists-identify-mummy-juice-in-egyptian-sarcophagus/

Papyrus, parchment, and paper: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/cover-to-cover/papyrus/

Dwellers on the Nile by E.A. Wallis Budge: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1293690.The_Dwellers_on_the_Nile

Universal’s abandoned “Dark Universe”: https://movieweb.com/dark-universe-all-the-canceled-movies-monsters/

Episode 56: Timeline (2003)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing Timeline (2003), based on a Michael Crichton novel of the same name, in which archaeology and physics team up for wacky time travel shenanigans. Unfortunately we don’t know much about medieval France, but we do love our time travel movies. Except this one. This one is a stinker.

(Sorry for the audio clipping in this episode, but thank god for backup recordings!)

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In this episode:

Timeline by Michael Crichton: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7669

Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals (or did he?): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2274850/

The short story about guy that goes back in time and squashes a butterfly is A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder

Carbon Dating math: https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/tasks/36

Qin Shi Huang’s Terracotta Army: https://www.chinahighlights.com/xian/terracotta-army/color.htm

Provenience in archaeology: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4419-6376-5_8

DNA transcription errors: https://gero.usc.edu/labs/vermulstlab/transcription-errors/

Monkey Dust – The Crusades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEVJ_48YgTg

Episode 55: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 05:00:00 +0000

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a classic film by Stanley Kubrick set in the distant future of 2001, when humankind finally evolves into spacefaring starbabies with no help from the AI they designed to help them. But the first act is set at the dawn of humanity, which means we get to review it on our prehistoric podcast!

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Watch the 2001: A Space Odyssey dubstep remix: https://vimeo.com/98811524

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic_Males

Darren Naish on tapir attacks https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tapir-attacks-past-present-but-hopefully-not-future/

The earliest evidence of stone tool use: https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/150520stonetools/

Chimpanzees hunt with spears: https://phys.org/news/2015-04-chimps-senegal-fashion-spears.html

The Savannah Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_hypothesis

The earliest bipedal hominins: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02226-5

The Turing Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

Eliza Chatbot: https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html

ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt

Lunar regolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil

Space grip shoes: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/magnetic-space-grip-shoe/overview/

Walking is really just falling and catching yourself: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/walking-really-is-just-falling-and-catching-yourself

Episode 54: Chrono-Perambulator (1999)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Chrono-Perambulator (1999) is an Irish short film in which an archaeologist and mad scientist travel back in time to solve an archaeological mystery. At under eleven minutes, this is by far the shortest film we’ve reviewed, but that didn’t stop us from talking about it for almost an hour!

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Watch Chrono-Perambulator on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU6kzpX-7Kw

Ooparts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact

The London Hammer: https://www.iflscience.com/the-mystery-of-the-modern-london-hammer-found-encased-in-ancient-rock-67095

The Antikythera Mechanism: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84310-w

The Kabwe Skull – a 300kya bullet wound? https://www.deviantart.com/paleonerd01/journal/Broken-Hill-1-was-not-killed-by-a-gunshot-879179798

Edison’s Conquest of Mars by Garret P. Serviss: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19141/19141-h/19141-h.htm

Yes, Elon Musk fanfiction exists: https://www.wattpad.com/stories/elonmusk

Roman penis graffiti: https://www.iflscience.com/ancient-roman-penis-graffiti-shows-humans-will-never-change-52659

The Cat Came Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJl_4IsQJ2g

Canada Vignettes – Woolly Mammoth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfrYKCd7ytc

All You Zombies by Robert Heinlein (pdf): https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Robert-A.-Heinlein-All-You-Zombies.pdf

Episode 53: Eegah (1962)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re watching Eegah (1962), the story of a filmmaker nearly bankrupting himself to finance a vehicle for his nepo baby son’s music career. Oh, and there’s a caveman… or a biblical giant. It’s unclear. This movie regularly shows up on lists of the worst movies of all time, but is it really that bad? Find out!

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Watch Eegah on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP64Uw_f0D0

Watch Eegah on Mystery Science Theater 3000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCb5rLjtF-4

The Anga people of Papua New Guinea preserve their dead relatives: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20151130-one-of-most-bizarre-rituals-of-the-ancient-world

The Office – Erin shaves Michael: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi2h2K6D1V8

Gila monster: https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/gila-monster

Greater short-horned lizard (aka horned toad): https://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/what-we-do/resource-centre/featured-species/reptiles-and-amphibians/greater-short-horned-lizard.html

Arch Hall Jr. and the Archers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjeJP2vesJ2WWe8s5l61LQ

Carson City, Nevada, “giant” footprints: http://www.paleo.cc/paluxy/carson.htm

Who Were the Nephilim, the Bible’s Mysterious Race of Giants? https://people.howstuffworks.com/nephilim.htm

Why are giants/cave men depicted wielding clubs? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cavemen-inherited-their-clubs-from-16th-century-european-wildmen

Episode 52: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 28 May 2023 05:00:00 +0000

On this episode we’re reviewing the quintessential archaeology movie: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). We had to get to it eventually, even though there isn’t really any archaeology in it, and there isn’t really anything new we can say about it that hasn’t already been said. Ross and Kim think it’s a perfect movie, but Josh plays devil’s advocate and tries to convince them that it is overrated.

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In this episode:

Does Indy actually affect the plot? https://www.esquireme.com/brief/indiana-jones-hypothesis

The real city of Tanis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanis

The Horton Ho 229: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/truth-stranger-fiction-hortens-all-wing-aircraft-design-180976095/

West Kennet Long Barrow: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/west-kennet-long-barrow/

Marion was 15 when she and Indy had their “affair”: https://www.polygon.com/2015/8/3/9089181/indiana-jones-abusive-creep

Sexual harassment in archaeology: https://news.stanford.edu/2021/03/30/harassment-archaeology-occurring-epidemic-rates/

Did Belloq (actor Paul Freeman) eat a fly? https://www.thebeardedtrio.com/2016/03/did-paul-freeman-accidentally-eat-fly.html

The Antikythera Mechanism on the Pseudoarchaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo/96

Episode 51: Time Trap (2017)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 14 May 2023 20:22:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing Time Trap (2017), a movie that features an archaeologist, his students, cavemen, hippies, cowboys, spacemen, Spanish conquistadors, Native Americans, and children, for some reason. It actually makes more sense than you’d expect!

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In this episode:

How will humans evolve in space? https://www.sciencealert.com/homo-galacticus-how-space-will-shape-the-humans-of-the-future

Sexual selection for human height: https://www.nature.com/articles/35003107

Kris Kristofferson in Millennium (1989): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097883/

Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ponce-de-leon-never-searched-for-the-fountain-of-youth-72629888/

Andrew Wilson as Beef Supreme in Idiocracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHGKq0XtP9s

50th Episode Special: SotSA Tier List!

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’ve reached a milestone: 50 episodes! To celebrate, we’re looking back on every movie we’ve watched and giving each one a definitive rating, tier-list style. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll enjoy reminiscing about our best and worst episodes with us, and if you’re new this episode will be a preview to the type of content you’ll find on this podcast.

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Episode 49: The Man from Earth (2007) w/ Dr. Predrag Radović

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 05:00:00 +0000

On this episode, Dr. Predrag (Pedja) Radović joins us to talk about The Man from Earth (2007), the story of an academic who tries to convince his colleagues that he is 14,000 years old. This low budget movie was filmed on camcorders and takes place in a single room, and yet it’s somehow one of the better movies we’ve seen!

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In this episode:

Watch The Man from Earth on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Fjr658CQs

Doggerland: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/doggerland/

Magdalenian Culture: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Magdalenian-culture

Magdalenian artifacts: http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/01/en/glos_plml/typos7.html

Why Call Them Back From Heaven? By Clifford Simak: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/757061

Panspermia: https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/postcards-from-the-universe/life_traveling_in_space_a/

Alfred Russel Wallace’s battle with flat-earthers: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/wallace-8217-s-woeful-wager-how-a-founder-of-modern-biology-got-suckered-by-flat-earthers/

D’Errico et al. (2001). An engraved bone fragment from c. 70,000-year-old Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origin of symbolism and language: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00060968

McBrearty and Brooks (2000). The revolution that wasn’t: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behaviour: https://doi.org/10.1006/jhev.2000.0435

Neanderthals and modern humans share the same FOXP2 “language” gene: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05859-7

QAnon supporters though JFK Jr. would return: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/02/qanon-jfk-jr-dallas/

The Nxivm Cult: https://www.nytimes.com/article/nxivm-timeline.html

Episode 48: Bones S8E11 The Archaeologist in the Cocoon (2013) w/ Prof. Mirjana Roksandic

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Prof. Mirjana Roksandic joins us again, this time to discuss an episode of Bones. We’re watching the Season 8 episode The Archaeologist in the Cocoon, in which the eponymous forensic anthropologist procrastinates on her real job to solve a Palaeolithic murder mystery left behind by their archaeologist victim. Mirjana explains to us why everything Bones says is wrong, and warns us about the dangers of over-interpretation in forensic investigation.

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In this episode:

The Lagar Velho Child: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.13.7604

Green et al. (2010). A Draft sequence of the Neanderthal Genome: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1188021

Fu et al. (2015). An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14558

Slon et al. (2018). The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0455-x

Hajdinjak et al. (2021). Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03335-3

Greenstick fractures: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513279/

Linear Enamel Hypoplasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_enamel_hypoplasia

Forensic pathologist Dr. Charles Smith’s testimony helped lock up innocent people for decades: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/dr-charles-smith-the-man-behind-the-public-inquiry-1.864004

Episode 47: 2012 (2009) with Dr. Andrew Kinkella

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 05:00:00 +0000

In this episode Dr. Andrew Kinkella joins us to discuss 2012 (2009), a summer blockbuster from Roland Emmerich based on Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods and a misunderstanding of the Mayan calendar. We get into the truth about the Maya, mutating neutrinos, pseudoarchaeology, and Roland Emmerich’s love of conspiracy theories.

Follow Dr. Andrew Kinkella:

Kinkella Teaches Archaeology on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/KinkellaTeachesArchaeology

The Pseudoarchaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo

The CRM Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/crmarchpodcast

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In this episode:

The Maya Calendar explained: https://www.mayaarchaeologist.co.uk/public-resources/maya-world/maya-calendar-system/

The Piri Reis Map – Pseudoarchaeology podcast Ep101: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo/101

Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles Hapgood: https://books.google.ca/books?id=5iLG2D5eBswC

Earth Crust Displacement Theory: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crust_displacement

Andy Samberg’s new series Digman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L05ow5zxfEo

The Genius Factory by David Plotz: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/131876/the-genius-factory-by-david-plotz/

Roland Emmerich is adapting the novel Maya Lord: https://filmschoolrejects.com/roland-emmerich-returning-subject-mayan-culture/

Episode 46: The People that Time Forgot (1977)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 06:00:00 +0000

The People that Time Forgot (1977) answers the question: what if Star Wars had dinosaurs? and was also terrible? This is the sequel to 1974’s The Land that Time Forgot. The original had some thoughtful philosophical musings on human nature; this one has a lot of cleavage.

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In this episode:

Listen to our review of The Land that Time Forgot: https://pasc-scpa.ca/sotsa/sotsa-e22

The history of the “cinnamon bun” hairstyle: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38452953

Primitive Technology on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550

Poecilotheria fasciata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilotheria_fasciata

This article on 54,000-year-old bows and arrows came out after we recorded this episode: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00526-y

Skull Tower in Niš, Serbia: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/skull-tower-nis

Sedlec Ossuary in Czech Republic: https://sedlecossuary.com/

Portugal’s Chapel of Bones: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/portugals-chapel-bones

Episode 45: A.R.O.G: A Prehistoric Film (2008)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 06:00:00 +0000

A.R.O.G (2008), the sequel to G.O.R.A (2004), is the story of a Turkish rug salesman who is sent a million years back in time by an old intergalactic foe, and must help his newfound stone-age friends progress through the technological ages to… eventually invent a time machine to return? That, or win a football match… The logic of it is unclear, but it is very funny and certainly film-literate (if not science-literate).

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In this episode:

Watch A.R.O.G on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr828yRNAu4

Is bee venom acidic and wasp venom basic? Truth vs. Myths: https://chemistryhall.com/bee-wasp-sting-venom/

Just in case the Zoomers don’t know what a Betamax is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax

Miller et al. (2006) Public Acceptance of Evolution: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1126746

The Atlas of Creation (pdf warning): https://orthodox-institute.org/files/Islam/Atlas_of_Creation_v1_e13.pdf

A fly fishing lure was mistakenly published as a real insect in an early edition of The Atlas of Creation: https://www.grahamowengallery.com/fishing/Atlas_of_Creation.html

Turkey stopped teaching evolution in schools in 2017: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/08/20/540965889/in-turkey-schools-will-stop-teaching-evolution-this-fall

How can we date cave paintings? https://sruk.org.uk/the-dating-game-how-do-we-know-the-age-of-palaeolithic-cave-art/

Radiocarbon dating and bomb carbon: https://www.radiocarbon.com/carbon-dating-bomb-carbon.htm

Episode 44: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) with Fredrik Trusohamn

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 06:00:00 +0000

We’re diving into the depths of pseudoarchaeology this week with Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). Ross is away but we’re joined by Fredrik Trusohamn, host of Digging Up Ancient Aliens, who helps us navigate the history of the mythological city. Fredrik came prepared with sources, so if you haven’t had enough of Atlantis by the end of the episode, check the links below for further reading!

Listen to Fredrik’s podcast, Digging Up Ancient Aliens: https://diggingupancientaliens.com/

Check out his website: https://www.ancientapocalypse.net/

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In this episode:

Edgar Cayce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce

Pseudoarchaeology and Racism: https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens/

Hyperdiffusionism: https://www.andytheargumentativearchaeologist.com/hyperdiffusionism.html

Stefan Milo on Ancient Apocalypse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=341Lv8JLLV4

The Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI

Banana: the atheist’s worst nightmare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A

Annelise Baer on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@annelisethearchaeologist

The Coelacanth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jl_txxYQEA

Fredrik’s Sources:

Blavatsky, H. (1888). The secret doctrine: the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy: https://universaltheosophy.com/hpb/secretdoctrine.html

Card, J. (2019a). America Before as a Paranormal Charter: http://onlinedigeditions.com/article/America+Before+as+a+Paranormal+Charter/3531896/634462/article.html

Card, J. (2019b). Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past: https://www.unmpress.com/9780826359148/spooky-archaeology/

Card, J. and Anderson, D.S. eds., (2016). Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/46406

Cicirello, C. and Curry, T. (2022). The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit: https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Unified-Theory-Bullshit/dp/B09TDW7RSR

de Camp, L.S. (1975). Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature: https://store.doverpublications.com/0486147924.html

Donnelly, I. (1882) Atlantis: The Antediluvian World: https://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/

Donnelly, I. (1887) Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel: https://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/rag/index.htm

Feder, K.L. (2010). Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology from Atlantis to the Walam Olum: https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofdu0000fede

Feder, K.L. (2020). Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/frauds-myths-and-mysteries-9780190096410

Jordan, P. (2001). The Atlantis Syndrome: https://archive.org/details/atlantissyndrome00jord/page/n1/mode/2up

López de Gómara, F. (1922). Historia general de las indias: https://archive.org/details/historigeneralde02lprich/page/248/mode/2up

Roding, C.B. ed., (2019). Editor’s Corner: The SAA Archaeological Record: http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=634462

Sarmiento de Gamboa, P. (1907). History of the Incas: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20218/pg20218.html

Staudenmaier, P. (2010) Between Occultism and Fascism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race and Nation in Germany and Italy, 1900-1945: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/17662/Staudenmaier%2C%20Peter.pdf

Steiner, R. (2021). Cosmic Memory (1959): https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA011/English/RSPI1959/GA011_index.html

Stevenson, D.C. ed., (2009a). Critias by Plato: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/critias.html

Stevenson, D.C. ed., (2009b). Timaeus by Plato: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html

Episode 43: Horror Express (1972)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Horror Express (1972) tells the tale of an anthropologist who discovers a frozen hominin in China which, unbeknownst to him, is possessed by a telepathic extraterrestrial life form. It’s basically The Thing on a train. Ross was so excited when he discovered this one that he couldn’t wait until Halloween.

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In this episode:

Optography – How Forensic Scientists Once Tried to “See” a Dead Person’s Last Sight: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-forensic-scientists-once-tried-see-dead-persons-last-sight-180959157/

Early calculations of the age of Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Earth#Early_calculations

How the human brain gets its wrinkles: https://www.livescience.com/47421-human-brain-wrinkles.html

Dmanisi – the first humans outside Africa: https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-frail-small-brained-people-who-first-trekked-out-africa

The history of human origin studies (Including Java Man, the Piltdown hoax, and the Taung Child): https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s12052-010-0248-7

Episode 42: Troll (2022)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 06:00:00 +0000

To kick of 2023 we’re reviewing Troll (2022), a Norwegian movie in which the government enlists the help of a paleontologist to stop a rampaging troll. We dig into mythology, tooth ontogeny, and sexual dimorphism, and determine that taxonomically trolls are monkeys.

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In this episode:

The Myth and Mystery behind Norwegian Trolls: https://adventures.com/blog/norway-trolls/

Iceland diverts roads around elf homes: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/25/iceland-construction-respect-elves-or-else

The Square-Cube Law: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SquareCubeLaw

Primate tooth eruption: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajpa.1330370608

Primate skeletal traits: https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/humans-are-primates/

Hypsodonty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsodont

Orangutan sexual dimorphism: https://www.orangutan.com/orangutan-facts/

Neanderthals, Scandinavian Trolls, and Troglodytes: https://www.norwegianamerican.com/neanderthals-scandinavian-trolls-and-troglodytes/

The Smith and the Devil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smith_and_the_Devil

Theodor Kittelsen’s trolls: http://wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/2016/04/father-of-trolls-art-of-theodor.html

In the Hall of the Mountain King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLp_Hh6DKWc

Episode 41: A Flintstone Christmas (1977)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 06:00:00 +0000

This holiday season we’re traveling back to the town of Bedrock for A Flintstone Christmas (1977), a slapdash holiday special featuring everyone’s favourite modern Stone Age family. In this episode we ask hard-hitting questions, like why or how does this pre-Christian society know about Christmas, and why does Santa exist in the Stone Age with 1970s technology? But in the end, this special left us with more questions than answers.

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In this episode:

The world’s oldest shoes – Fort Rock Cave sandals: https://pages.uoregon.edu/connolly/FRsandals.htm

Trinkaus and Shang, 2008, Anatomical evidence for the antiquity of human footwear: Tianyuan and Sunghir: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2007.12.002

Kevin Can F**k Himself trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oubiQsc9Hw8

Fun reindeer facts: https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/fun-facts-about-reindeer-and-caribou

Reindeer see in ultraviolet light: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20519-reindeer-gained-uv-vision-after-moving-to-the-arctic/

A beginner’s guide to Amanita muscaria mushrooms: https://psychedelicspotlight.com/a-beginners-guide-to-amanita-muscaria-mushrooms/

No, Santa wasn’t a mushroom-tripping shaman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQE_6y2lQyg

Episode 40: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 06:00:00 +0000

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) is the story of a badass woman archaeologist from Belle Époque France. Well, she’s really more of a journalist and grave robber, misappropriating ancient knowledge for personal reasons. Still, it’s the only movie I know of that has resurrected Egyptian mummies, pterodactyls, and nuclear-physics-based telekinesis!

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In this episode:

Based on a graphic novel: https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/the-extraordinary-adventures-of-adele-blanc-sec-vol-1-pterror-over-paris-the-eiffel-tower-demon-tardi

Pterodactyls and Pteranodons and Pterosaurs, oh my! https://www.livescience.com/24071-pterodactyl-pteranodon-flying-dinosaurs.html

The Jurassic period is named after the Jura Mountains in France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic

Canopic Jars: https://www.memphistours.com/Egypt/WikiTravel/History-Egypt/wiki/Ancient-Egyptian-Canopic-Jars

Before the Breathalyzer There Was the Drunkometer: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know-history/breathalyzer-there-was-drunkometer

Graham Hancock’s “Ancient Apocalypse” is the most dangerous show on Netflix: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/nov/23/ancient-apocalypse-is-the-most-dangerous-show-on-netflix

Guillotine facts: https://www.discoverwalks.com/blog/10-grisly-facts-about-the-guillotine/

Episode 39: Ammonite (2020)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Ammonite (2020) is a fictional historical love story based on the lives of two real Victorian paleontologists, Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison. Kim has a bee in her bonnet about this movie: too much hot sex and not enough paleontology! We’re definitely earning our “explicit” tag on this episode!

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In this episode:

Stone Girl Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning by Laurence Anholt: https://books.google.ca/books/about/Stone_Girl_Bone_Girl.html?id=r2v2FfOo684C

Lyell, Hutton, uniformitarianism, and catastrophism: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/uniformitarianism

Forgotten women of paleontology: Charlotte Murchison: https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2021/01/07/forgotten-women-of-paleontology-charlotte-murchison/

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier: https://www.tchevalier.com/10-rc/100-remarkable-creatures

Curiosity by Joan Thomas: http://joanthomas.ca/books/curiosity-a-love-story/

Dr. James Manby Gully’s “Water Cure”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Manby_Gully

The Victorians were not sexually repressed: https://medium.com/perceive-more/what-we-know-about-sex-in-the-victorian-age-is-absolutely-wrong-ca92b49e594a

Anne Lister’s coded lesbian diary: https://www.annelister.co.uk/

Episode 38: Mammoth (2006)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Mammoth (2006) is a made-for-TV Sci-Fi Channel original in which a frozen mammoth becomes possessed by an extraterrestrial being, and the Men in Black enlist the help of a local paleontologist to save the town from total annihilation. This movie asks many important questions, like: How do mammoths behave in the wild? Do they attack? And were they really wiped out by a “pathogon”? The answers to these questions and more on this episode of Screens of the Stone Age!

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In this episode:

Did a “pathogon” kill the mammoths? Ross MacPhee thinks so: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/interview-with-ross-macph/

Deinotherium – the “terrible beast”: https://www.fossilguy.com/gallery/vert/mammal/land/deinotherium/index.htm

Mammoth was filmed at the Grigore Antipa Natural History Museum, Bucharest: https://visitbucharest.today/bucharest-museums/grigore-antipa-national-museum/

Mammoth behaviour: https://www.cdm.org/mammothdiscovery/behavior.html

Museum galleries only show a small fraction of their collections: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/arts/artsspecial/19TROVE.html

Most museum fossils on display are casts: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/30/what-exhibits-in-a-museum-are-genuine

What is the difference between x-rays and CT scans? https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/ct-vs-mri-vs-xray

CT scanners have apertures less than 1 meter – not big enough for a mammoth: https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.14257

How many species of mammoths were there? (and other mammoth facts): https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/expert-guide-to-mammoths-all-your-questions-answered/

Episode 37: The Thaw (2009)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re getting into the Halloween spirit with The Thaw (2009), a climate change horror movie in which a parasitic plague is unleashed from a thawed mammoth. In this episode we talk climate change, virus evolution, and glacial archaeology, and since we are all pandemic veterans by now, we are thoroughly unimpressed by these scientists’ quarantining skills.

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In this episode:

Ross MacPhee thinks that a disease drove the Pleistocene megafauna to extinction: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/interview-with-ross-macph/

Frogs freeze solid while hibernating: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-frogs-survive-wint/

How viruses evolve: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-viruses-evolve-180975343/

Climate change and the mountain pine beetle: https://www2.unbc.ca/releases/2007/climate-change-and-mountain-pine-beetle

Follow Secrets of the Ice on Twitter @breakeologi: https://twitter.com/brearkeologi

Join the Paleontological Association: https://www.palass.org/

Episode 36: Trog (1970)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 05:00:00 +0000

We’re getting into the spooky season with Trog (1970), a British horror movie about a thawed caveman who goes on a murderous rampage, and an anthropologist who wants to study him for reasons which are not always clear. Is this a B-movie classic or does it take itself too seriously to be campy? Find out what we think in this episode!

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In this episode:

Joan Crawford’s final film.

“Troglodyte” just means “cave dweller”

Trog’s costume was recycled from 2001: A Space Odyssey: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066492/trivia

The way you see colour depends on which language you speak: https://theconversation.com/the-way-you-see-colour-depends-on-what-language-you-speak-94833

All apes see the same colour spectrum as humans: https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/primate/color.htm

Neander-Jin has a 7.7 on IMDB; go watch it and then rate it accordingly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i72em0Zb2fM

Episode 35: Inherit the Wind (1960)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Inherit the Wind (1960) is a fictional retelling of the Scopes “Monkey” Trail of 1925, the seminal case which pitted science vs. religion. Turns out the movie is actually a parable for McCarthyism, and there is barely any evolution in it at all. In this episode we talk about evolution anyway, and finally settle the debate between evolution and creationism once and for all

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In this episode:

The Scopes “Monkey” Trial: https://www.npr.org/2005/07/05/4723956/timeline-remembering-the-scopes-monkey-trial

Cain’s wife was from the land of Nod: https://www.bible.com/bible/59/gen.4.16-17

The form of wordplay where the sentence is repeated with words reversed is called antimetabole: https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/antimetabole

Examples of antimetabole in Mystery Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5I94bT23cQ&list=PL95B3D3AC4209F503&t=58s

A “Chopraism” is something else, but it’s also fun: http://wisdomofchopra.com/

Kitzmiller v. Dover: https://www.aclu.org/other/trial-kitzmiller-v-dover

A phylogenetic and Evolutionary History of the Pokemon: https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume18/v18i4/Phylogeny-Pokemon.pdf

Notes on Racial Phylogeny (Skyrim): https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Notes_on_Racial_Phylogeny

Ross’s hecklers in the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/reader-comments/p/comment/link/605328923

Why anthropologists don’t accept the Aquatic Ape theory: https://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/pseudoscience/aquatic_ape_theory.html

Wrinkly fingers are caused by a nervous response: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322705#causes

Episode 34: Skullduggery (1970)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing the most problematic movie we’ll ever recommend you watch (but only once, and then never again): Skullduggery (1970) stars Burt Reynolds as a charismatic misogynistic capitalist who manipulates an anthropologist into accidentally discovering a living missing link, whom he enslaves, and whose humanity he later tries to prove in a court of law. If that sounds unbelievable, you may not be prepared for the twists and turns this movie takes.

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In this episode:

Watch the movie on YouTube before we spoil it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RY1YhVQPbc

This history of Homo erectus taxonomy: https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21873

The tuberculum geniale is on the mandible, not the humerus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_spine

Species concepts: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/evo-eco-lab/species-concepts/

You can’t name a species after yourself: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-get-a-species-named-after-you/

Hominid and Hominin: what’s the difference? https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/hominid-and-hominin-whats-the-difference/

What is an anthropoid? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0908320107#sec-2

Dating an archaeologist: https://digventures.com/2016/02/4-things-you-lose-when-you-break-up-with-an-archaeologist-and-4-things-you-gain/

Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman: https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/

Bonus Episode: Indy-anna Jones and the Tower of Ivory – Chippin’ Away

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 02:09:40 +0000

On this special bonus episode, we’re excited to present the other side of our crossover with the Chippin’ Away Podcast:

From the South of Asia to the North of America, we discuss the influence of popular culture on archaeology and the study of the past. If you started following archaeology after Indiana Jones’ movies, Lara Croft Tomb-Raider, or the likes; this episode is for you! Join us as we interview Josh Lindal (co-host of the podcast “Screens of the Stone Age”). We discuss films, archaeology, and how the field and popular culture represent each other.

Send your comments and inputs to us at chippinawayind@gmail.com and keep the conversation alive on Twitter and Instagram @chippinawayind

https://chippinaway.buzzsprout.com/

Episode 33: Night at the Museum (2006)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 05:00:00 +0000

On this episode we’re spending the Night at the Museum, the 2006 blockbuster where dinosaurs skeletons, historical dioramas, and ancient archaeological artifacts come to life. Josh is frustrated by the plot holes, but Ross uses all of his academic might to rationalize the inconsistent worldbuilding. Either way, this movie is a celebration of museums, and we can all get behind that.

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In this episode:

The museum in the film is modelled after the American Museum of Natural History in New York: https://www.amnh.org/

Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun were different people: https://www.theclassroom.com/difference-between-genghis-khan-attila-hun-23102.html

Neanderthals didn’t usually make cave paintings, but sometimes they did: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02357-8

Alfred Russel Wallace was way cooler than Darwin: https://wallacefund.myspecies.info/content/biography-wallace

Source: “This was once revealed to me in a dream”: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/source-i-made-it-up

Attendance to the AMNH increased in the weeks following this movie’s release: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/nyregion/thecity/14muse.html

Admission UK museums is free: https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/free-entry-to-museums-in-the-uk

Easter Islanders call for return of statue from British Museum: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jun/04/easter-islanders-call-for-return-of-statue-from-british-museum

Howard Carter stole Tutankhamun’s treasure: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/13/howard-carter-stole-tutankhamuns-treasure-new-evidence-suggests

Read Ross’s book, The Missing Lynx: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/missing-lynx-9781472957351/

Anton van Leeuwenhoek identified sperm cells under a microscope after making love to his wife: https://gizmodo.com/the-first-time-anyone-saw-sperm-1708170526

The Scully Effect: https://seejane.org/research-informs-empowers/the-scully-effect-i-want-to-believe-in-stem/

Episode 32: Mohenjo Daro (2016)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 15:51:00 +0000

On this episode we’re joined by Akash Srinivas and Durga Kale of the Chippin’ Away podcast to review Mohenjo Daro (2016), the story of a simple farmboy’s first trip to the big city where he falls in love, discovers his destiny, and saves an entire civilization. Mohenjo Daro was a real city in the Indus Valley, and Akash and Durga help us sift through the real-life archaeological evidence that inspired this film.

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View Akash’s research profile: https://sites.google.com/view/akashsrinivas

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Find Durga on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/durgakale/

Follow Durga on Twitter and Instagram @kalemighty

Read Durga’s Blog: www.kalemighty.com

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In this episode:

Learn more about the Indus Valley Civilization at https://www.harappa.com/

Pineapples as a status symbol: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-53432877

Ancient Harappan DNA: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rare-ancient-dna-south-asia-reveals-complexities-little-known-civilization-180973053/

We still can’t read Harappan writing: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-we-still-cant-read-the-writing-of-the-ancient-indus-civilization

What does the representation of horses in Mohenjo Daro have to do with debates about Indian ancestry? https://openthemagazine.com/features/history/hold-your-horses/

Harappan Plumbing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_of_the_Indus_Valley_civilisation

Dales & Raikes (1968). The Mohenjo-Daro Floods: A Rejoinder! American Anthropologist, 70(5), 957-961. https://www.jstor.org/stable/669762

Harappan unicorn seals: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/bce_500back/indusvalley/unicorn/unicorn.html

The origin of the unicorn myth on Chippin’ Away: https://chippinaway.buzzsprout.com/974125/4803332-set-in-stone

The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7913305-the-immortals-of-meluha

No, Mohenjo Daro was not destroyed by a nuclear explosion: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1qjp4s/if_the_ancient_civilizations_of_mohenjodaro_and/

Episode 31: The Ugly Little Boy (1977)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0000

The Ugly Little Boy (1977) is an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s touching short story about a Neanderthal child kidnapped across time by unscrupulous scientists. In this episode we talk about chaos theory, the ethics of human research, and the 1970s Canadian film aesthetic.

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In this episode:

Watch The Ugly Little Boy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMJpj5YvyL8

Read the novelization of the short story by Robert Silverberg: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195450.The_Ugly_Little_Boy

Neanderthal blood type: https://www.sciencealert.com/surprise-neanderthal-blood-discovery-hints-at-their-origins-and-downfall

How the Rh factor can affect pregnancy: https://www.acog.org/womens-health/faqs/the-rh-factor-how-it-can-affect-your-pregnancy

American Anthropological Association statement on ethics: https://ethics.americananthro.org/category/statement/

Edward Lorenz and the origin of the “Butterfly Effect”: https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/02/22/196987/when-the-butterfly-effect-took-flight/

Episode 30: Prometheus (2012)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 17:58:57 +0000

We’re venturing into the space age again with Prometheus (2012), the Alien prequel in which an archaeologist couple travels to a distant planet in search of humanity’s creators. Our opinions of this one are mixed, but we can all agree that the influence of the Ancient Astronaut hypothesis on popular culture is uniformly bad.

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In this episode:

Scotland was completely covered in in Glaciers during the Ice Age: https://www.nature.scot/landforms-and-geology/scotlands-rocks-landforms-and-soils/landforms/ice-age-landforms/ice-age

It’s Probably (Not) Aliens: https://solo.to/probsnotaliens

Prometheus in Greek Mythology: https://www.greekmythology.com/Titans/Prometheus/prometheus.html

King Pakal’s sarcophagus lid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%CA%BCinich_Janaab%CA%BC_Pakal#Iconography_of_Pakal’s_sarcophagus_lid

Pseudoarchaeology and the racism behind Ancient Aliens: https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens/

Assassin’s Creed: Unity can’t actually help rebuild Notre-Dame: https://www.polygon.com/features/22790314/assassins-creed-unity-notre-dame-restoration-accuracy

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez: https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/

The Xenomorph life cycle in Alien was inspired by real-life parasitoid wasps: http://www.sci-news.com/biology/dolichogenidea-xenomorph-alien-like-lifecycle-06142.html

Does toxoplasmosis make you love your cat more? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-cats-responsible-for-ldquo-cat-ladies-rdquo/

Episode 29: RRRrrrr!!! (2004)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 05:00:00 +0000

On this episode, Predrag (Pedja) Radović joins us as we travel back to l’Âge de Pierre in the French movie RRRrrrr!!! (2004), a comedy in which cavemen use shampoo and investigate the world’s first murder. We wish we understood French better because we probably missed a lot of good puns in the translation.

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In this episode:

Gerard Depardieu claims to have killed two lions: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/13/gerard-depardieu-shot-and_n_6319362.html

Sima de los Huesos, the Pit of Bones: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-sima-hominins-an-ancient-human-cold-case

Rouffignac Cave Paintings: https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/france/rouffignac/index.php

The Red Lady of Paviland Cave: https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/british_isles_prehistory_archive/red_lady_paviland/index.php

Flickering fire light may have “animated” Palaeolithic cave paintings: https://nautil.us/early-humans-made-animated-art-1750/

An “animated” ancient goat from a bowl discovered in Iran: https://theheritagetrust.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/worlds-oldest-animation/

Palaeolithic thaumatropes: https://rockartblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/prehistoric-animation-paleolithic.html

Pedja and Josh have written about Paradolichopithecus, an extinct monkey from Europe: https://theconversation.com/monkey-fossils-found-in-serbia-offer-clues-about-life-in-a-warmer-world-millions-of-years-ago-125420

Mangalitsa – Hungarian Woolly Pig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pseRWj9TDj4

Daniel Fisher suggests Palaeolithic humans may have preserved meat in ponds: https://youtu.be/dJ69uhCxB1Q?t=751

Episode 28: Jurassic Park (1993)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 05:00:00 +0000

We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could we didn’t stop to think if we should! On this episode we’re joined by Dr. Elsa Panciroli to discuss Steven Spielberg’s classic Jurassic Park (1993), even though it has nothing to do with the Stone Age. We all agree it is a perfect movie and possibly the best of all time, but we’re still going to criticize its scientific accuracy, because that’s what we do here.

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Read Elsa’s Books:

Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (2021) https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/beasts-before-us-9781472983978/

The Earth: A Biography of Life (2022) https://www.nhbs.com/the-earth-a-biography-of-life-book

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In this episode:

The oldest DNA found so far: https://www.science.org/content/article/mammoth-molars-yield-oldest-dna-ever-sequenced

Animals that can change sex: https://www.treehugger.com/animals-can-change-their-sex-4869361

How old is amber? https://nammu.com/eng/how-old-is-amber/

Docodonta – Mesozoic mammals: https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Docodonta

3D-printed mummy voicebox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O66mc-bDeXU

Thagomizer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

Herbivores aren’t friendly: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HerbivoresAreFriendly

Inaccurate dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: https://screenrant.com/jurassic-park-completely-wrong-about-dinosaurs/

Jurassic Park’s Velociraptors were actually based on Deinonychus: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/you-say-velociraptor-i-say-deinonychus-33789870/

Raptor Red (1996) by a guy named Bakker: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/7633/raptor-red-by-robert-t-bakker/9780553575613

Episode 27: Encino Woman (1996)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Happy Anniversary! This episode marks one full year of SotSA, so to celebrate we’re reviewing Encino Woman (1996), the made-for-TV sequel to our favourite movie, Encino Man. It’s really not fair to compare the two, but this movie has its own message and it does its best to tell it. Or maybe it’s just the 90s nostalgia…

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In this episode:

Watch a VHS recording of this movie on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAAAWSvjRfA

Archaeological woven sandals: https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/ancient-shoes/

Mousterian bowls make their return! http://www.propbay.com/original/mousterian-bowl-encino-man-1992-movie-prop-5413.html

The history of perspective in art: http://www.classicalart.org/blog/a-brief-history-of-perspective

Lucy, the Australopithecus: https://iho.asu.edu/about/lucys-story

Breccia: https://geology.com/rocks/breccia.shtml

Riviere and Wheeler (2005) Cementum on Smilodon sabers: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20199

Antón et al. (2022) Concealed weapons: A revised reconstruction of the facial anatomy and life appearance of the sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens (Felidae, Machairodontinae): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107471

Episode 26: The Cannibal in the Jungle (2015)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 29 May 2022 05:00:00 +0000

On this episode we’re joined by Dr. Matt Tocheri to discuss The Cannibal in the Jungle (2015), an Animal Planet mockumentary which blurs the line between fact and fiction. The (fictional) story centres around a team of ornithologists who were attacked by a group of Homo floresiensis (the so-called “hobbits”), which happen to be Matt’s area of expertise. We discuss hominin evolution, biogeography, and the boundaries between entertainment and misinformation.

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In this episode:

Watch the director’s cut here: https://www.simongeorgedirector.com/amerikan-kanibal

Homo Floresiensis and the myth of the ebu gogo: https://aeon.co/ideas/investigating-homo-floresiensis-and-the-myth-of-the-ebu-gogo

Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid By Gregory Forth: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Between-Ape-and-Human/Gregory-Forth/9781639361434

Ghostwatch (1992) BBC Halloween special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQfMTktMZLQ

Wolf Creek (2005): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416315/

The Flores Scops Owl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flores_scops_owl

What is the Wallace Line? https://www.thoughtco.com/the-wallace-line-1224711

Evans et al. (2020). Mitogenomics of macaques (Macaca) across Wallace’s Line in the context of modern human dispersals. Journal of Human Evolution, 146, 102852: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102852

Teixeira et al. (2021). Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5 (5), 616-624: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01408-0

Episode 25: Neander-Jin (2011)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 15 May 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Neander-Jin: Return of the Neanderthal Man (2011) is an obscure and inexplicable “romantic comedy” about a Neanderthal who somehow travels trough time and falls in love with a young professional woman, but ultimately becomes corrupted by commercialism and fame. What do Japanese culture, German Unity Day, and gummy bears have to do with Neanderthals? Nothing, but yet they are all in this movie for some reason. Don’t worry, Josh has lost his movie-choosing privileges for at least three episodes.

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In this episode:

If our synopsis sounds unbelievable, you can watch this movie for yourself on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUmIkr9wijQ

Neanderthals had larger brains than modern humans: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/neanderthal-brains-bigger-not-necessarily-better

The Neanderthal Museum: https://www.neanderthal.de/en/home.html

Neandertal (Neander Valley) is a place in Germany: https://www.nrw-tourism.com/neander-valley

The Neander Valley is named after Joachim Neander: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Neander

Episode 24: Harry and the Hendersons (1987)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 01 May 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Regular listeners know how much we love bigfoot, so we’re very excited to be reviewing Harry and the Hendersons (1987), the story of a family of hunters who accidentally befriend a sasquatch and have to protect him from an obsessed cryptozoologist (and the rest of human society as well). What will it take to scientifically prove bigfoot exists? Probably more than we can ethically afford, but at least we can enjoy movies about it!

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In this episode:

Bigfoot hunter Jacques LaFleur is loosely based on Swiss-Canadian bigfoot researcher Rene Dahinden: http://lorencoleman.com/archives/rene-dahinden/

Rene Dahinden was briefly the spokesperson for Kokanee Beer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SoakYhHNA

John Green, Canadian Sasquatch researcher (pdf): https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/essays/Green_Tribute_revised.pdf

John Green’s exhaustive Bigfoot sighting database: https://github.com/jameskbride/sasquatch-data-json

Fahrenbach (1998) Sasquatch Dimensions and Traits. Cryptozoology 13, 47-75: http://www.bigfoot411.com/uploads/2/6/9/7/26977415/bf411-physiology-1998-fahrenbach_wolf-size-scaling-statistics.pdf

Scientist Grover Krantz risked it all… chasing bigfoot: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/scientist-grover-krantz-risked-it-all-chasing-bigfoot-180970676/

The truth behind “Birds aren’t Real”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK1dXuMEpT0

Is it legal to kill bigfoot? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87148/it-legal-shoot-bigfoot

Gregory Forth (2022) Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Between-Ape-and-Human/Gregory-Forth/9781639361434

Mike Morwood (2009) A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the “Hobbits” of Flores, Indonesia https://www.routledge.com/A-New-Human-The-Startling-Discovery-and-Strange-Story-of-the-Hobbits/Morwood-Oosterzee/p/book/9781598744149

Can humans hybridize with other apes? https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/is-it-possible-for-humans-and-chimpanzees-to-interbreed/

Allen et al. (2020). A mitochondrial genetic divergence proxy predicts the reproductive compatibility of mammalian hybrids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1928), 20200690. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2020.0690

Episode 23: King Kong (2005)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 21:20:33 +0000

This week we’re taking a look at King Kong (2005), Peter Jackson’s epic three-hour remake of the 1933 classic. We talk about the biology and evolution of island ecosystems, but we should have had a physicist guest host this episode because this movie can’t seem to help breaking the laws of physics!

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In this episode:

Apes are monkeys – deal with it: https://paoloviscardi.com/2011/04/21/apes-are-monkeys-deal-with-it/

Monkeys travelled to South America by raft: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/monkeys-raft-across-atlantic-twice-180974637/

Insular Dwarfism – the “Island Rule”: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/219453/islands-give-rise-evolutionary-giants-dwarfs/

Human “hobbit” species, Homo floresiensis and Homo luzonensis: https://www.livescience.com/mysterious-hobbits-human-lineage-identity.html

The North American House Hippo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TijcoS8qHIE

Gigantopithecus, the largest ape that ever lived: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/160106-science-evolution-apes-giant

How big can mammals get? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHe1wmEaYWo

King Kong defies physics: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-king-kong-should-have-been-blue-whale-180962603/

The Square-Cube Law: https://sketchplanations.com/the-square-cube-law

American missionary killed by indigenous people of the Andaman Islands: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46313965

Giant Wētā, the largest living insect: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/invertebrates/weta/

Why aren’t there giant insects today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l79FuGuk1qE

Episode 22: The Land That Time Forgot (1974)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing The Land That Time Forgot (1974), the story of a WWI submarine crew who gets stranded on a mysterious island populated by dinosaurs and prehistoric people. It takes itself seriously enough to wax philosophical about war and human nature, but it was also featured on Mystery Science Theatre 3000, so its profundity might have been undercut somewhat by its bad dinosaur puppets.

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In this episode:

The Simpsons character Troy McClure was based on Doug McClure – https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/49169/retrobituaries-doug-mcclure-and-troy-donahue-two-halves-troy-mcclure

Neanderthals wore talons and feathers as jewelry – https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.17095

Is the Loch Ness Monster a Plesiosaur? – https://theconversation.com/have-scientists-finally-killed-off-the-loch-ness-monster-123075

Ogopogo, Canada’s lake monster – https://www.tourismkelowna.com/blog/post/the-legend-the-spirit-the-creature-the-history-of-ogopogo/

Pareidolia – why we see faces in everyday objects – https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140730-why-do-we-see-faces-in-objects

Why does everything taste like chicken? – https://www.smh.com.au/world/why-does-everything-taste-like-chicken-20120921-26akl.html

Changing representation of dinosaurs in film – https://jurassicparkterror.net/changing-view-of-dinosaurs/

Episode 21: The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 05:00:00 +0000

We’re on a stop-motion dinosaurs kick! The Valley of Gwangi can best be described as Jurassic Park with cowboys. Neither are really the focus of this podcast, and while the movie hinted at human and mammal evolution, those topics were never spoken of again once the dinosaurs showed up. I guess the takeaway is that we should have been dinosaur paleontologists.

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In this episode:

Jurassic Park drew inspiration from Gwangi – http://www.rebeatmag.com/fantasia-obscura-why-you-havent-seen-the-1966-film-that-inspired-jurassic-park/

Eohippus and the evolution of the horse – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse

New research divides Tyrannosaurus rex into three species – https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-propose-that-the-t-rex-was-actually-three-different-species-180979663/

Moa genetics – https://www.seeker.com/animals/reconstructed-moa-genome-may-move-the-meaty-bird-closer-to-de-extinction

Tyrannosaur Chronicles by Dave Hone – https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/tyrannosaur-chronicles-9781472911285/

Horse diving was a real thing – https://horseyhooves.com/horse-diving/

The death of a horse in the cowboy film Jesse James led to the Humane Society slogan “no animals were harmed” https://www.cbr.com/movie-legends-revealed-how-a-horse-falling-off-a-cliff-led-to-no-animals-were-harmed/

Episode 20: Caveman (1981)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:00:09 +0000

Caveman is a story about a caveman starring Ringo Starr. Actually, “story” is a bit of a stretch – like many classic caveman movies we’ve reviewed, it’s about a caveman who is banished from his group, and then a bunch of random things happen, and then he returns. But at least it has some fun stop-motion dinosaur animations!

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In this episode:

Starr got his big break as the drummer for a 1960s boy band, but you’d probably recognize him best as the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Ringo_Starr

The Chewits Muncher: https://youtu.be/bg92hFmIDuc

Ringo Starr met his wife Barbara Bach on the set of Caveman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2epvgjoo1Ws

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human by Richard Wrangham: basicbooks.com/titles/richard-wrangham/catching-fire/9780465020416/

Early use of fire at Koobi Fora, Kenya: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248419301411

The Divje Babe “Flute”: https://www.divje-babe.si/en/the-neanderthal-flute/

Neanderthals made glue from birch tar: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50131120

The West Tofts Acheulean Handaxe features a shell fossil: https://digventures.com/2020/06/amazing-artefacts-250000-year-old-hand-axe-knapped-around-a-shell/

The Ica Stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJtIm4jgAFQ

Gideon Mantel and the reconstruction of Iguanodon: http://scihi.org/gideon-mantell/

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-steve-brusatte?variant=32117226536994

Episode 19: The Croods (2013)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Today we’re reviewing The Croods, the story of a Neanderthal family led by a paranoid patriarch whose authority is threatened by an innovative young modern human. Despite the star-studded cast, Ross may never forgive us for making him watch this one.

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In this episode:

Whale phylogeny: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.012

Chang and Eng Bunker, the original conjoined twins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_and_Eng_Bunker

Neanderthal control of fire: https://www.bbcearth.com/news/did-neanderthals-learn-to-make-fire-before-homo-sapiens

Neanderthal art: https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/neanderthal-art-discovery/

Why aren’t there any blue or green mammals? https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg25033370-800-why-are-there-no-green-mammals/

Four-winged dinosaur: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28295571

Neanderthal footprints at Theopetra, Greece: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-60406-6_10

Was hookworm responsible for the “dumb hillbilly” stereotype? https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/

Guinea worm has almost been eradicated: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00385-z

The Hygiene Hypothesis of allergies: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1365-2249.2010.04139.x

Episode 18: One Million Years B.C. (1966)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000

We’re diving into the classics for this episode! One Million Years B.C. is recognizable for two things: Ray Harryhausen’s groundbreaking dinosaur animations, and Raquel Welch’s fur bikini. What’s not to like? Well, everything except for those two things, as it turns out.

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http://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/pgbf-1mbc/

In this episode:

Seriously, check out this Allosaurus scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x8Okrzo4n8

Sima de los Huesos – the Pit of Bones: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-sima-hominins-an-ancient-human-cold-case

Could Roger Patterson have used a costume from this movie to fake his famous bigfoot footage?

Roger Patterson drew a bigfoot with breasts a year before the famous footage #PGhoax don’t @ me: https://medium.com/@christharp/the-problem-with-patty-8911b13d1cbe

Cowgirls vs. Pterodactyls (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA6sJQrqFoA

Stone age twin burial with mammoth scapulae (shoulder blades): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stone-age-twins-discovere/

Episode 17: Early Man (2018)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0000

What do you get when you cross Wallace and Gromit, 10,000BC, and The Mighty Ducks? Early Man is the story of a bumbling tribe of Stone Age cavemen who challenge the Bronze Age to a football (soccer) match to save their village. This movie is drenched in references to both football and British culture, and considering this is a nerdy science podcast we mostly understand the latter!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_periods#General_periods

In this episode:

Difference between geological time periods and cultural ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale

The Beaker People: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/directory/beaker-people

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World#Background

A discussion about colour (Radiolab did it better): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/211119-colors

Lumpers and Splitters: https://xkcd.com/2518/

Prof. Yoel Rak locked out of his office over archaeology drama: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-a-bitter-archaeological-battle-is-rocking-tel-aviv-university-1.10443893

The history of football: https://www.footballhistory.org/

Ba game – medieval Scottish football: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_game

Ancient Mesoamerican ballcourts: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay6964

Pelota – student video game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-aW_gc6xe4

Archaeology of the Olympics: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/health/when-the-games-began-olympic-archaeology.html

Episode 16: 10,000 BC (2008)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0000

There’s no other way to say it: this is the worst movie we’ve reviewed so far. If you’ve seen it, you probably know what we’re talking about, and if not, buckle in for a rant. 10,000 BC is the boring story of a caveman with no personality who needs to rescue a cavewoman with no personality from anachronistic slave traders building the pyramids with the help of domesticated mammoths. If that sounds stupid, it gets even worse: in this episode, we talk ancient aliens, hyperdiffusionism, and the racism underlying archaeological conspiracy theories.

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In this episode:

B.C., A.D., B.C.E., C.E., or B.P.?!?

Phorusrhacids (Terror birds) don’t belong in this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae

The last mammoths survived until 4000 years ago on Wrangel Island: https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191007081750.htm

Atlantis never existed: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/where-is-the-lost-city-of-atlantis-and-does-it-even-exist

Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis:_The_Antediluvian_World

Chariots of the Gods(?) by Erich von Daniken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods

Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprints_of_the_Gods

Pseudoarchaeology and racism: https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pseudoarchaeology-racism/

Episode 15: Rare Exports – A Christmas Tale (2010)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000

We have a special holiday episode today! Rare Exports is the crazy story of an illicit archaeological excavation which unearths the frozen remains of Santa Claus, who then goes on a murderous rampage in search of naughty children. To be honest, it’s not really about archaeology at all, but the Venn diagram of stone age movies and Christmas movies basically only overlaps at this one and a Flintstones Christmas special, and I think we made the right choice.

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In this episode:

Joulupukki, the Finnish Santa Claus tradition: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20171221-does-santa-claus-come-from-finland

Other scary Christmas traditions: https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/scary-christmas-a-look-at-the-world-s-most-unusual-creepy-and-odd-holiday-traditions-1.4726583

Philippa Langley helped to discover the remains of King Richard III in a Leicester car park: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/08/philippa-langley-richard-third-car-park

Hunting mammoth ivory in Siberia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2016/sep/01/mining-woolly-mammoths-ivory-siberia-amos-chapple-in-pictures

Dinosaur 13 (2014), documentary about the ownership of Sue the Tyrannosaurus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZywsT8Sy-c

The Hobby Lobby antiquities smuggling controversy: https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/623537440/hobby-lobbys-illegal-antiquities-shed-light-on-a-lost-looted-ancient-city-in-ira

The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38743554-the-dinosaur-artist

Episode 14: Alpha (2018)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000

On today’s episode we are reviewing Alpha (2018), the story of a lost Solutrean boy who befriends and domesticates a wolf, with TWO special guests! Dr. April Nowell studies the origins of art and language and the archaeology of childhood. Dr. Grant Zazula is the palaeontologist for the Government of Yukon, and he was the palaeontology consultant on Alpha! He takes us behind the scenes as we dissect the real-life inspirations behind the language, artifacts, landscapes, and of course ice-age mammals in this beautiful movie.

Check out April’s new book, Growing Up in the Ice Age: https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/growing-up-in-the-ice-age.html

April is giving a talk on Thursday January 13, 2022 at 9:00 PT / 17:00 GMT as part of the University of Liverpool Evolutionary Anthropology Webinar Series: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/events/evo-anth/

Check out Grant’s work with the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

https://www.beringia.com/

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In this episode:

Christine Schreyer on the construction of fictional languages in film: https://news.ubc.ca/2018/08/23/ubc-linguist-creates-language-for-hollywood-film-alpha/

CBC under fire for documentary promoting the Solutrean Hypothesis: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cbc-under-fire-for-documentary-that-says-first-humans-to-colonize-new-world-sailed-from-europe

Archaeology of the Night: Life After Dark in the Ancient World, edited by Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell: https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3227-archaeology-of-the-night

Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump in Alberta: https://headsmashedin.ca/

Winnipeg professor teachers how to survive falling through the ice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gOW8ZaYqHA&list=PLqCtDryCZFOqhQ-05Nwy9tLrFMsZI3KPh

Mammoth bone houses: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/60-mammoths-house-russia-180974426/

Painted pebbles from Mas d’Azil, France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azilian

Borneo hand stencil cave paintings: https://theconversation.com/borneo-cave-discovery-is-the-worlds-oldest-rock-art-in-southeast-asia-106252

The domestication of dogs: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2264329-humans-may-have-domesticated-dogs-by-accident-by-sharing-excess-meat/

“Alpha wolves” don’t exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ti86veZBjU

Check out Ross’s book: The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain’s Lost mammals: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/missing-lynx-9781472957351/

Episode 13: Missing Link (2019)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0000

In this episode we discover that we’d all secretly rather be squatchin’! Missing Link is the story of a Victorian naturalist who “discovers” Bigfoot when he receives a letter from the mythological ape-man himself asking for his help. We’re so excited to talk sasquatches that I’m a little worried this episode will mark our gradual transition to full-time cryptozoology podcast. Ross has even published a scientific paper on yeti DNA! (Before you get too excited, it turns out it was a bear).

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In this episode:

Edwards & Barnett (2015). Himalayan ‘yeti’ DNA: Polar bear or DNA degradation? A comment on ‘Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti’ by Sykes et al.(2014). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1800), 20141712. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1712

Sykes et al. (2014). Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1789), 20140161. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0161

Melba Ketchum’s Sasquatch Genome Project: http://www.sasquatchgenomeproject.org/

Thomas Henry Huxley was the most quotable Victorian-era naturalist: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17171.Thomas_Henry_Huxley

The surprisingly recent discovery of the gorilla (by Europeans): https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01883-3

Scientific names for mythological species: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/taxonomania-an-incomplete-catalog-of-invented-species/

Josh on naming the new human species, Homo bodoensis in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/whats-in-a-name-when-it-comes-to-human-fossils-its-complicated-171569s

Ross on Sabre-toothed cat DNA in The Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8844201/Sabre-toothed-cats-deadly-long-distance-hunters-attacked-packs.html

Kim on the evolution of the human spine: https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2020/03/your-back-pain-may-be-due-to-evolution-and-spine-shape.html

Episode 12: Year One (2009)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0000

We’re out of our element in this one. Year One is the story of two cavemen who bumble their way through the Book of Genesis. None of us are biblical archaeologists, but we try our best! It’s ostensibly a comedy, but you wouldn’t know from watching it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVaFN-auNPY&list=PL5HreT9u25eTsWySkExukD1lnTjYZ-gbX&index=1

In this episode:

Lilith, Adam’s first wife: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lilith-Jewish-folklore

Bacula: https://www.etsy.com/ca/market/baculum_jewelry

The Icelandic Phallological Museum: https://phallus.is/en/

The Necromancer pants aren’t real; they’re a replica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1br%C3%B3k

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore: https://www.chrismoore.com/books/lamb/

Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60146.Behold_the_Man

Ancient Greek Helmets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flsn5AUtn0s

Bunch et al. (2021) A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea. Sci Rep 11, 18632. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97778-3

Mark Boslough’s criticism of Bunch et al. on Twitter: https://twitter.com/markboslough/status/1440097126856282113

Roman brothel infanticide: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14401305

Episode 11: The Descent (2005)

Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Happy Halloween! In this episode of Screams of the Bone Age, we’re joined by special guest Marta Borovčanin to discuss The Descent (2005), a horror movie about a group of explorers who get trapped in a cave and stalked by prehistoric monsters. We talk about our scariest experiences working in caves, and speculate on the possibility of human monsters evolving in caves (Spoiler alert: it probably wouldn’t happen!).

Hear more from Marta on the (Re)Akcionizam podcast (in Serbian)

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