Episode 11: The Descent (2005)
Happy Halloween! In this episode of Screams of the Bone Age, we’re joined by special guest Marta Borovčanin to discuss The Descent (2005), a horror movie about a group of explorers who get trapped in a cave and stalked by prehistoric monsters. We talk ab
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Show Notes
Happy Halloween! In this episode of Screams of the Bone Age, we’re joined by special guest Marta Borovčanin to discuss The Descent (2005), a horror movie about a group of explorers who get trapped in a cave and stalked by prehistoric monsters. We talk about our scariest experiences working in caves, and speculate on the possibility of human monsters evolving in caves (Spoiler alert: it probably wouldn’t happen!).
Hear more from Marta on the (Re)Akcionizam podcast (in Serbian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVaFN-auNPY&list=PL5HreT9u25eTsWySkExukD1lnTjYZ-gbX&index=1
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In this episode:
Tasmajdan Cave, Belgrade: https://balkaninsight.com/2016/04/13/ta%C5%A1majdan-cave-potential-tourist-hotspot-03-17-2016/
Archaeology at Mala Balanica Cave, Serbia: https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-road-through-sicevo/
The Hike to Šuplja Dupka Cave, Serbia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY_DdSJUtxc
Exploring Šuplja Dupka Cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EmoylPljo
Why do cave animals evolve blindness? https://phys.org/news/2017-04-cave-animals.html
Upper Palaeolithic cave paintings: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/12/humans-were-not-centre-stage-ancient-cave-art-painting-lascaux-chauvet-altamira
Survey of cave art in the Central Balkans: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330117290_Ruiz-Redondo_A_Mihailovic_D_Kuhn_S_L_2018_First_results_of_rock_art_survey_in_Central_Balkans_Analysis_of_the_graphic_remains_of_Selacka_3_Serbia_In_Floss_H_Pastoors_A_eds_Palaeolithic_rock_and_cave_a
Human echolocation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/learning-how-to-be-a-human-bat/
Phosphorescent glow worms: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/science/glow-worms-new-zealand.html