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It’s still spooky month, so we watched The Lair of the White Worm (1988), an unhinged Bram Stoker adaptation about a sexy immortal snake woman sacrificing virgins to a larger and more phallic snake, and an intrepid “Scotch” archaeologist who saves the day with a snakecharming bagpipe song and magic sporran. Excuse me: “Scots”. As usual we talk a little about archaeology, a lot about cryptids, and after five years still struggle to figure out this whole Zoom thing.

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Watch The Lair of the White Worm (1988) on ok.ru: https://ok.ru/video/3658778872518

Read The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1188

Mysteries of the Unknown: Monsters, Ghosts & UFO's: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/4741699-mysteries-of-the-unknown

How to play bagpipes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTj2XTVmsS4

The Lambton Worm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambton_Worm

Wyrm etymology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_dragon

Arthur Holmes and the age of the Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Holmes#Age_of_the_Earth

Joseph Barrell (1917) Rhythms and the measurements of geologic time: https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-28-745

Upper Palaeolithic art at Creswell Crags: https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/british_isles_prehistory_archive/church_hole/index.php

The Simpsons did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDYJcBoZ9kE

Steve Buscemi Test: https://www.reddit.com/r/bechdelcast/comments/1mxhrqi/jamies_test/

On this episode we ventured out into the real world and shelled out the equivalent of a down payment on a small car to see The End of Oak Street (2026) in theatres. And guess what? Feathered dinosaurs! We’re so thrilled about that that we let some of the minor things slide, like the outdated JP3-style Spinosaurus... and the shaggy sauropods... and the mix of Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and even Pleistocene taxa... But we have to draw the line at Ewan McGregor’s American accent.

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

Riley Black’s list of dinosaurs on Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2026/08/end-of-oak-street-movie-dinosaurs-reviews-allosaurus-titanoboa.html

Screenrant’s list of Dinosaurs: https://screenrant.com/the-end-of-oak-street-movie-dinosaur-species/

CBC’s guide to dino sex: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/end-of-oak-street-dinosaur-sex-9.7314428

Blue Smarties were introduced in 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties#Colours_and_flavours

Blue M&Ms were introduced in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s#1990s:_New_flavors_ring

Blue Froot Loops were introduced in 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froot_Loops#History

Canadian/UK Smarties vs. American Smarties: https://www.thecanadafoods.com/blog/canadian-smarties-vs-american-smarties-whats-the-difference

Spinosaur Tales (2026) by Dave Hone and Mark Witton: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/spinosaur-tales-9781399412469/

Dinosaur milk – Quirks and quarks

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/summer-question-show-9.7250132

Split diopter shot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6HkQvH5QvM

Today we’re reviewing... *checks notes* ... Stig of the Dump, again? That’s right, we’re reviewing the 2002 remake! It’s surprising how much has changed in 20 years: the family dynamic shifted from latchkey kids to helicopter grandparents; the thieves are leaving the fine silver in favour of Dreamcast consoles; and Stig himself has devolved from a clever Neolithic boy to an apelike “Stiganopithecus.”

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Watch Stig of the Dump (2002) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEHSzfpwCzQ

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List of Greek and Latin roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English

Australopithecus species: https://www.johnhawks.net/p/guide-to-australopithecus-species

Denisovan leg bones from Taiwan reveal large body size: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.07.743438

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

Our episode on As Above, So Below (2014): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-89-as-above-so-below-2014/

Stig of the Dump is a 1963 children’s novel by Clive King which spawned at least two TV adaptations; today we’re reviewing the first, from 1981. It’s a very gentle, very British show in which a neglected child befriends a caveman in a garbage dump and everyone else gaslights him for 10 episodes.

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Listen to the audiobook of Stig of the Dump on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GweIzXKvc3Y

Sherbet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbet_(frozen_dessert)

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

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

Prize-Giving Day: https://www.gauthmath.com/knowledge/What-is-a-Prize-Giving-Day--7389728173675511819

Star Carr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Carr

The Tucson Garbage Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson_Garbage_Project

Wierer et al. (2018) The Iceman’s lithic toolkit: Raw material, technology, typology and use: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198292

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

Harris. (2018) Roll Me a Great Stone: A Brief Historiography of Megalithic Construction and the Genesis of the Roller Hypothesis: https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12142

Kits Coty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit%27s_Coty_House

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

Today we’re joined by filmmaker Maarten Peels to talk about his 2024 short film De Poten van de Bizon (The Bison’s Legs), the story of two friends who go on a dream quest to make a cave painting. Maarten did extensive research in order to avoid the clichéd caveman tropes and make something we’ve never seen before: a plausible and scientifically accurate portrayal of Palaeolithic life. We are absolutely in love with this film, and highly recommend that you pause the episode and go watch it right now!

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Watch The Bison’s Legs on Maarten’s Website: https://www.potenvandebizon.nl/

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Hear more from Maarten on the EXARC Podcast: https://www.exarc.org/exarc-podcast/filming-prehistory-getting-it-right

Experimental archaeologist Diederik Pomstra: https://www.puttinglife.com/blog/the-essential-knowledge-of-a-craftsperson/

Marc Azéma: Animation in Palaeolithic art: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00062785

Chauvet bison painting: https://archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/chauvet/en/mediatheque?page=%2C1

Palaeolithic Thaumatrope: https://archive.org/details/eight-legged-boar-animation/An%20ancient%20spinning%20disk%20%28reconstruction%20shown%29%20found%20in%20what%27s%20now%20southwestern%20France%20may%20have%20been%20a%20children%27s%20toy..jpg

Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television: 581 Dramas, Comedies and Documentaries, 1905–2004

by Michael Klossner (2006) https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/prehistoric-humans-in-film-and-television/

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos (2024): https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091455/

Today we’re reviewing Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968), the story of a cool Russian sci-fi movie about an exploratory mission to Venus which an American studio dubbed and re-cut to include telepathic “prehistoric” women, for some reason. In truth there’s very little prehistory in this one, so we get to talk about space travel for forty minutes! (Astronomers and engineers, please send your complaints and corrections to screensofthestoneage@gmail.com)

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Watch Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6mHuM8SWs4

Watch Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms) (1962) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VTF23EFvEM

Watch Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1dtqIPlERU

Asimov’s Three Rules of Robotics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

Mant! – Matinee (1993): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-brLyrdTyA

Venus: https://science.nasa.gov/venus/

Missions to Venus: https://science.nasa.gov/venus/exploration/

Venus Life Finder: https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/rocket-lab-venus-mission

Self-driving cars and the Trolley Problem: https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/24/139313/a-global-ethics-study-aims-to-help-ai-solve-the-self-driving-trolley-problem/

The Passengers by John Marrs: https://www.johnmarrsauthor.com/the-passengers

Are Autonomous Vehicles safer than Human Drivers? https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/the-safety-data-on-autonomous-vehicles

Bicycle Couriers in Canada can claim food as a fuel expense: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/sole-proprietorships-partnerships/report-business-income-expenses/completing-form-t2125/line-8523-meals-entertainment-allowable-part-only.html#extra

Today we’re reviewing the feminist classic The Wild Women of Wongo (1958), which tells the story of two prehistoric tribes: one where all the women are beautiful and all the men are brutes, and the other vice versa. But don’t worry – social norms are upheld in the end and everyone is married off to an equally attractive partner.

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Watch The Wild Women of Wongo (1958) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnVMGixO3-c

Pathécolor: https://filmcolors.org/timeline-entry/1218/

Burmese pythons in Florida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_pythons_in_Florida\

William Marsden, creator or Wonder Woman: https://www.npr.org/2014/10/27/359078315/the-man-behind-wonder-woman-was-inspired-by-both-suffragists-and-centerfolds

Our episode on Eegah! (1962): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-53-eegah-1962/

Coral Castle: https://coralcastle.com/

H.H. Holmes’ Murder Castle: https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-h-h-holmes

The Tubes - Wild Women of Wongo (Live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHk6wqqXMlg

Billy Idol - Sweet Sixteen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClxXDfvtoj0

Ancient Aliens: How Were These Mysterious Structures Built?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN1yCWWN-Eo

Magnetic Currents by Edward Leedskalnin: https://www.leedskalnin.com/Leedskalnins-Writings-MAGNETIC-CURRENT.html

First Man (2017) is a “documentary” with an interesting relationship to scientific facts and a disturbing view of human nature. It follows human evolution through four reconstructed ancestors: an early beta cuck ape from Spain; a Tate stan basal hominin from Chad; an ancestral alpha mogger from South Africa; and a brainmaxxing sigma arsonist from China. Join us as we break down the silly walks, unnecessarily blurred monkey genitals, and (content warning!) graphic sexual assault.

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

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

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

Sivapithecus/Ramapithecus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivapithecus

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

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

Peking Man (Homo erectus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man

Harbin/Dragon Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_cranium

Our episode on Skullduggery (1970): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-34-skullduggery-1970/

Our episode on Sasquatch Sunset (2024): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-106-sasquatch-sunset-2024/

Grieving chimpanzee carries dead baby for months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj4Wk-hujPY

Zhoukoudian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhoukoudian_Peking_Man_Site

The myth of the alpha wolf: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/

Parsimony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_parsimony

Boma predator deterrent: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/09/keeping-lions-at-bay-to-keep-them-going/

Gao et al. (2017) Evidence of hominin use and maintenance of fire at Zhoukoudian: https://doi.org/10.1086/692501

Laughter in animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter_in_animals

Pusceddu et al. (2025) Animal medical systems from Apis to apes: history, recent advances and future perspectives: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70060

Ventro-ventro position (doggy is not the only style): https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2015/12/doggy-is-not-only-style.html

Man vs. horse races (horses have won): https://ultrarunninghistory.com/man-vs-horse/

Persistence hunting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

Aiello and Wheeler (1995) The Expensive-tissue hypothesis: The brain and the digestive system in human and primate evolution: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2744104

Wrangham (2009) Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human: https://heb.fas.harvard.edu/publication/catching-fire-how-cooking-made-us-human

They keep making them, so we keep reviewing them! In the Blink of an Eye (2026) tells the tragic tale of an adorably precocious child’s radicalization and eventual transformation into a billionaire tech bro who destroys the earth. It’s a triptych of past, present, and future, taking us from an endearing mixed race Neanderthal family, to Rashida Jones’ groundbreaking PhD research, to a genetically engineered sci-fi Kate McKinnon’s quest to find the next planet to destroy. It’s alright, I guess.

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Longevity-obsessed tech billionaires: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/11/health/kara-swisher-longevity-wellness

Kepler 16b: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-16b

The ichnology of White Sands (New Mexico): Linear traces and human footprints, evidence of transport technology? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2025.100274

RNA World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world

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

How to order authors in scientific papers: https://wordvice.com/blog/journal-article-author-order/

How to format genus/species names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d_5jDJvYwY

Berger and Trinkaus (1995) Patterns of Trauma among the Neandertals: https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-4403(95)90013-6

The Divje Babe Flute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXV07YCGKY

Lawnmower RC Airplane: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SuZLxMIsN6k

Neanderthals and ancient DNA: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals

Ehh, what’s up, doc? But in this case the “doc” is a PhD. Get it? Because we’re... Never mind, we’re back with more classic cartoons! As we move into the second half of the Twentieth Century the characters become more recognizable: Porky Pig, Mighty Mouse, Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker – we ruin the fun of all these characters by trying to assess what species they are! (Oh wait, I should have said “what’s up, post-doc?”. I’ll keep workshopping it) (Part 2 of 2).

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Cartoons featured in this episode:

Springtime in the Rock Age (1940): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivk88NXvc_k

Way Back When Women had their Weigh (1940): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUcPMfEGfeI

Prehistoric Porky (1940): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK6quxW5pc0

Mighty Mouse – Prehistoric Perils (1952): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAdUiP_giPY

Peabody's Improbable History S3E17 "The First Caveman" (1961): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1r5SZElTzQ

Pink Panther – Prehistoric Pink (1968): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io5oqdC_1co

Pink Panther – Extinct Pink (1969): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y3lt2oWh_0

Prehistoric Super Salesman (1969): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8imjrh

Other Links:

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

Snail tape measure: https://yarn-fun.com/products/snail-tape-measure

Black Panthers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther

King Cheetah: https://www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/ga8css/king_cheetahs_are_variety_of_cheetahs_with_a_rare/

What’s Opera, Doc? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9doSQ1cHAw

Bjorn Kurten’s Pleistocene Mammals of Europe: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315126470

Which big cats like catnip? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/8td7ut/does_catnip_affect_wild_felines_the_same_way_it/

Do big cats like catnip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEdpDl1hSz4

Oldest bows and arrows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_and_arrow#History

Strawberry leopard: https://nypost.com/2019/08/20/rare-strawberry-leopard-photographed-in-south-africa/

Woody is an Ivory Billed Woodpecker: https://ivory-billedwoodpecker1.blogspot.com/2012/03/woody-woodpecker.html

Today we’re digging deep into the Stone Age of cinema and reviewing classic cartoons about prehistoric people. From the world’s first animated dinosaur to the advent of colour film, we watched cartoons featuring Felix the Cat, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Daffy Duck, a seriously copyright-infringing couple of mice, and a disturbing amount of sexual violence. (Part 1 of 2)

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Cartoons featured in this episode:

Gertie the Dinosaur (1914): https://youtu.be/32pzHWUTcPc

Why they love cavemen (1921): https://youtu.be/5ikoWsHLicA

Felix in the Bone Age (1922): https://youtu.be/97V_6O3iHbE

Stone Age Stunts (1930): https://youtu.be/Ojdjl3VEnn4

The Stone Age – Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1931): https://youtu.be/wqayvsVPnlo

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939): https://youtu.be/X2tgbncOoMk

Other topics:

Mr. DNA’s Science Lesson – Jurassic Park: https://youtu.be/1Uq5WSzUaTQ

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

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

Anas rubripes, the American Black Duck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_black_duck

Black Swedish duck: https://livestockconservancy.org/swedish-duck/

Sinclair Oil: https://www.sinclairoil.com/dino-history

Primal (2019-) is an animated series by Gendy Tartakovsky set in an alternate prehistory in which Neanderthals and dinosaurs coexist. Setting aside the anachronisms, this series has received critical acclaim for its emotional depth and unique visual storytelling format. Kim doesn’t care about that—she was too traumatized by the first episode to watch any further.

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Watch Gendy Tartakovsky’s Primal on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/primal-s-2-e-10/Primal+S1E1.mp4

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

Platt et al. (2026) Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aea6774

Weaver and Hublin (2009) Neandertal birth canal shape and the evolution of human childbirth: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812554106

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

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

Dinosaur colouration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_coloration

Darwin's Acid - Baba Brinkman - Rap Guide to Evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apICqy01jo4

Neanderthal fishing: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106731

Trinkaus and Villotte (2017) External auditory exostoses and hearing loss in the Shanidar 1 Neandertal: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186684

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

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

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

Today we’re yelling at all you young whippersnappers to get off our lawn! That’s right, your favourite elder millennial academics are reviewing AI generated caveman slop. It’s a world of polydactyl chad-panzees and GIGO-chads, when men were apes and women were dirty supermodels. Are we witnessing the extinction of human creativity, or are we just stuck in the stone age and refusing to evolve?

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Neanderthal skull characteristics: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/3-s2.0-B9780123786326000173-f17-26-9780123786326.jpg

Magnani and Clindaniel (2025) Artificial Intelligence and the Interpretation of the Past: https://www.doi.org/10.1017/aap.2025.10110

Why does AI screw up at hands and fingers? https://www.britannica.com/topic/Why-does-AI-art-screw-up-hands-and-fingers-2230501

People prefer human generated content over AI: https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/people-still-largely-prefer-humans-create-content-not-ai

George Jetson and Rosie the robot: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/293/343/488/042/214/original/d947ba2b674951c1.webp

Microsoft’s “Tay” chatbot became a Nazi in 16 hours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

"Walk My Walk" by Breaking Rust topped the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart in 2025: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Rust

Neanderthal fingerprint: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0g9jv707yo

Neanderthal high-pitched voices: https://www.discovermagazine.com/if-neanderthals-were-able-to-speak-they-may-have-had-high-pitched-voices-46297

Neanderthals boiled water with stones: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neanderthals-had-houses-hot-water-180956438/

Neanderthals distilled birch tar: https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-uncover-hearth-neanderthals-may-have-used-make-tar

Cue Scratch.WAV by Racche - License: Attribution 3.0: https://freesound.org/s/160907/

Today we’re reviewing Don Verdean (2015), the story of a washed-up Biblical archaeologist who, under pressure from his financial backers, begins to fake his discoveries. This movie is rife with pseudoarchaeological references, so we’ve invited Dr. Andrew Kinkella back to help us break it down. As a bonus, he uses his film degree to explain why, despite being hilarious, this movie is actually terrible.

Dr. Andrew Kinkella’s links:

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

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

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

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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/

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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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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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