Episode 20: Caveman (1981)

Caveman is a story about a caveman starring Ringo Starr. Actually, “story” is a bit of a stretch – like many classic caveman movies we’ve reviewed, it’s about a caveman who is banished from his group, and then a bunch of random things happen, and then he returns. But at least it has some fun stop-motion dinosaur animations!

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Starr got his big break as the drummer for a 1960s boy band, but you’d probably recognize him best as the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Ringo_Starr

The Chewits Muncher: https://youtu.be/bg92hFmIDuc

Ringo Starr met his wife Barbara Bach on the set of Caveman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2epvgjoo1Ws

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human by Richard Wrangham: basicbooks.com/titles/richard-wrangham/catching-fire/9780465020416/

Early use of fire at Koobi Fora, Kenya: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248419301411

The Divje Babe “Flute”: https://www.divje-babe.si/en/the-neanderthal-flute/

Neanderthals made glue from birch tar: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50131120

The West Tofts Acheulean Handaxe features a shell fossil: https://digventures.com/2020/06/amazing-artefacts-250000-year-old-hand-axe-knapped-around-a-shell/

The Ica Stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJtIm4jgAFQ

Gideon Mantel and the reconstruction of Iguanodon: http://scihi.org/gideon-mantell/

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs-steve-brusatte?variant=32117226536994