Screens of the Stone Age

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. Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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 Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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 David Bock does our graphic design; check out his amazing work! https://www.dkbock.com/ Check out our great new YouTube title cards! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC04f7AHZm92A0wGw-kA6yww

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. Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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 Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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

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! Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Find Greeced Lightning wherever you get your podcasts https://linktr.ee/greecedlightning

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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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). Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Listen to Firebreathing Kittens wherever you get your podcasts! https://firebreathingkitte.wixsite.com/website Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] 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

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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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/

Recently Josh invited Kim and Ross on a wildlife hike in Skyrim. You can listen to that conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EfGDRrcb274 If you want to see more stone age video game reviews, make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, and let us know which archaeology- and palaeontology-related video games you’d like us to review!

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. Listen to Greeced Lightning: https://linktr.ee/GreecedLightning Greeced Lightning on Facebook https://m.facebook.com/greecedlightningpod/ Greeced Lightning on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greecedlightningpod/ Email Greeced Lightning: [email protected] 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/ Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Listen to the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/nbarchaeology/ https://www.instagram.com/new_brunswick_archaeology/ [email protected] Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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!) Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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

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! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected]

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! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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 Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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). Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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/ Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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

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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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/

Today we’re getting into the Halloween spirit with The Thaw (2009), a climate change horror movie in which a parasitic plague is unleashed from a thawed mammoth. In this episode we talk climate change, virus evolution, and glacial archaeology, and since we are all pandemic veterans by now, we are thoroughly unimpressed by these scientists’ quarantining skills. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: Ross MacPhee thinks that a disease drove the Pleistocene megafauna to extinction: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/interview-with-ross-macph/ Frogs freeze solid while hibernating: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-frogs-survive-wint/ How viruses evolve: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-viruses-evolve-180975343/ Climate change and the mountain pine beetle: https://www2.unbc.ca/releases/2007/climate-change-and-mountain-pine-beetle Follow Secrets of the Ice on Twitter @breakeologi: https://twitter.com/brearkeologi Join the Paleontological Association: https://www.palass.org/

We’re getting into the spooky season with Trog (1970), a British horror movie about a thawed caveman who goes on a murderous rampage, and an anthropologist who wants to study him for reasons which are not always clear. Is this a B-movie classic or does it take itself too seriously to be campy? Find out what we think in this episode! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: Joan Crawford’s final film. “Troglodyte” just means “cave dweller” Trog’s costume was recycled from 2001: A Space Odyssey: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066492/trivia The way you see colour depends on which language you speak: https://theconversation.com/the-way-you-see-colour-depends-on-what-language-you-speak-94833 All apes see the same colour spectrum as humans: https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/primate/color.htm Neander-Jin has a 7.7 on IMDB; go watch it and then rate it accordingly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i72em0Zb2fM

Inherit the Wind (1960) is a fictional retelling of the Scopes “Monkey” Trail of 1925, the seminal case which pitted science vs. religion. Turns out the movie is actually a parable for McCarthyism, and there is barely any evolution in it at all. In this episode we talk about evolution anyway, and finally settle the debate between evolution and creationism once and for all Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: The Scopes “Monkey” Trial: https://www.npr.org/2005/07/05/4723956/timeline-remembering-the-scopes-monkey-trial Cain’s wife was from the land of Nod: https://www.bible.com/bible/59/gen.4.16-17 The form of wordplay where the sentence is repeated with words reversed is called antimetabole: https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/antimetabole Examples of antimetabole in Mystery Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5I94bT23cQ&list=PL95B3D3AC4209F503&t=58s A “Chopraism” is something else, but it’s also fun: http://wisdomofchopra.com/ Kitzmiller v. Dover: https://www.aclu.org/other/trial-kitzmiller-v-dover A phylogenetic and Evolutionary History of the Pokemon: https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume18/v18i4/Phylogeny-Pokemon.pdf Notes on Racial Phylogeny (Skyrim): https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Notes_on_Racial_Phylogeny Ross’s hecklers in the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/reader-comments/p/comment/link/605328923 Why anthropologists don’t accept the Aquatic Ape theory: https://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/pseudoscience/aquatic_ape_theory.html Wrinkly fingers are caused by a nervous response: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322705#causes

Today we’re reviewing the most problematic movie we’ll ever recommend you watch (but only once, and then never again): Skullduggery (1970) stars Burt Reynolds as a charismatic misogynistic capitalist who manipulates an anthropologist into accidentally discovering a living missing link, whom he enslaves, and whose humanity he later tries to prove in a court of law. If that sounds unbelievable, you may not be prepared for the twists and turns this movie takes. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: Watch the movie on YouTube before we spoil it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RY1YhVQPbc This history of Homo erectus taxonomy: https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21873 The tuberculum geniale is on the mandible, not the humerus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_spine Species concepts: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/evo-eco-lab/species-concepts/ You can’t name a species after yourself: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-get-a-species-named-after-you/ Hominid and Hominin: what’s the difference? https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/hominid-and-hominin-whats-the-difference/ What is an anthropoid? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0908320107#sec-2 Dating an archaeologist: https://digventures.com/2016/02/4-things-you-lose-when-you-break-up-with-an-archaeologist-and-4-things-you-gain/ Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman: https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/

On this special bonus episode, we’re excited to present the other side of our crossover with the Chippin’ Away Podcast: From the South of Asia to the North of America, we discuss the influence of popular culture on archaeology and the study of the past. If you started following archaeology after Indiana Jones’ movies, Lara Croft Tomb-Raider, or the likes; this episode is for you! Join us as we interview Josh Lindal (co-host of the podcast “Screens of the Stone Age”). We discuss films, archaeology, and how the field and popular culture represent each other. Send your comments and inputs to us at [email protected] and keep the conversation alive on Twitter and Instagram @chippinawayind https://chippinaway.buzzsprout.com/

On this episode we’re spending the Night at the Museum, the 2006 blockbuster where dinosaurs skeletons, historical dioramas, and ancient archaeological artifacts come to life. Josh is frustrated by the plot holes, but Ross uses all of his academic might to rationalize the inconsistent worldbuilding. Either way, this movie is a celebration of museums, and we can all get behind that. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: The museum in the film is modelled after the American Museum of Natural History in New York: https://www.amnh.org/ Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun were different people: https://www.theclassroom.com/difference-between-genghis-khan-attila-hun-23102.html Neanderthals didn’t usually make cave paintings, but sometimes they did: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02357-8 Alfred Russel Wallace was way cooler than Darwin: https://wallacefund.myspecies.info/content/biography-wallace Source: “This was once revealed to me in a dream”: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/source-i-made-it-up Attendance to the AMNH increased in the weeks following this movie’s release: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/nyregion/thecity/14muse.html Admission UK museums is free: https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/free-entry-to-museums-in-the-uk Easter Islanders call for return of statue from British Museum: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jun/04/easter-islanders-call-for-return-of-statue-from-british-museum Howard Carter stole Tutankhamun’s treasure: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/13/howard-carter-stole-tutankhamuns-treasure-new-evidence-suggests Read Ross’s book, The Missing Lynx: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/missing-lynx-9781472957351/ Anton van Leeuwenhoek identified sperm cells under a microscope after making love to his wife: https://gizmodo.com/the-first-time-anyone-saw-sperm-1708170526 The Scully Effect: https://seejane.org/research-informs-empowers/the-scully-effect-i-want-to-believe-in-stem/