Episode 63: Black Mountain Side (2014)

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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In this episode:

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