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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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

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

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/

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

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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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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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:

https://www.straightdope.com/21343548/after-the-1929-stock-market-crash-did-investors-really-jump-out-of-windows

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

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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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:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-018-0016-8

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

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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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

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

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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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/

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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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/

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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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

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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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:

https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume18/v18i4/Phylogeny-Pokemon.pdf

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

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/

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

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

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/

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

Recently Josh invited Kim and Ross on a wildlife hike in Skyrim. You can listen to that conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EfGDRrcb274

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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/

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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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

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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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/

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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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/

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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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

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

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

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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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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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

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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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

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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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/

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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/

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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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

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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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/

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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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/

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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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/