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Screens of the Stone AgeLa Brea S01E01Today we’re returning to L.A.’s famous tar pits for the pilot episode of La Brea (2021), the timey-wimey story of a family of Los Angelinos who fall into a sinkhole in Wilshire Boulevard and somehow end up in the Pleistocene. If you love ice age megafauna, this episode is for you! The show, maybe not so much.Get in touch with us:Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.comIn this episode:Dire wolves (Aenocyon diru...2025-01-0547 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe Christmas QuestHappy Holidays! To celebrate the season we’re reviewing The Christmas Quest (2024), a brand-new Hallmark movie starring Lacey Chabert as an archaeologist searching for the lost treasure of Iceland’s Yule Lads. Josh regales us with stories of his Icelandic/Canadian heritage, from prune cake to giant classist cats to the witch living in his grandmother’s attic.Get in touch with us:Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.comIn this episode:Gryla and the Yule Lads...2024-12-221h 14Screens of the Stone AgeOne Million B.C.Today we’re reviewing One Million B.C. (1940), a film from Hollywood’s Golden Era which is probably the common ancestor of all caveman movies. The 1966 remake with Raquel Welch is much more famous, but as it turns out it’s pretty faithful to the original, the main difference apparently being the blatant on-screen animal cruelty (consider this your content warning).Get in touch with us:Twitter: @SotSA_PodcastBluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.comIn this e...2024-12-0847 minScreens of the Stone AgeAncient National Treasure w/ HA2H PodcastNational Treasure (2004) is lowkey an American history lesson disguised as a heist movie—or vice versa? Either way, there are no cavemen in it, so we have invited Kyle from the History According to Hollywood Podcast to help us Commonwealth citizens understand the American obsession with faded old documents, broken bells, and Benjamin Franklin.Listen to the History According to Hollywood Podcast – maybe the episode where Josh joined them to discuss 10,000 B.C.? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdkfjssevo&list=PLMIHuz5VH0Xdk_w8feD8qJiLM0ygQ-eBl&index=2Get in touch with us:Tw...2024-11-241h 38Screens of the Stone AgeAncient Apocalypse: The Americas, Ep.6 with Dr. Andrew KinkellaToday we’re making a sacrifice to the gods of the algorithm and reviewing an episode of Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas (2024). To help carry this burden, we’re joined by Dr. Andrew Kinkella, who helps us evaluate claims about the ancient Maya in this series’ sixth episode. How did ancient people learn to count? How did they find out that the sun exists? It’s a real mystery.Check out Andrew Kinkella’s shows:The Pseudo-Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudoThe CRM Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/crmarchpodca...2024-11-101h 12Screens of the Stone AgeAs Above, So BelowToday we’re getting spooky with As Above, So Below (2014), the story of yet another unethical archaeologist who has no qualms about breaking into sites, vandalizing artifacts, and never documenting anything. Unlike most archaeological heroes, however, she is forced to atone for these sins by passing through the nine levels of Hell, à la Dante’s Inferno.Discover new #RealArchaeology podcasts, YouTube channels, and more at https://real-archaeology.com/Get in touch with us:Twitter: @SotSA_PodcastBluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/...2024-10-261h 12Screens of the Stone AgeTarIt’s October so we’re reviewing scary movies! Tár (2022) is the story of a groundbreaking orchestra conductor who... wait, that doesn’t sound right... Oh, I see, we actually watched Tar (2020), the story of a greasy prehistoric demon who emerges from the La Brea tar pits to haunt a small computer repair store. Well, Josh and Ross did – Kim messed up and watched the wrong movie, but we decided to spare her the ordeal and record the podcast anyway.Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media:2024-10-1352 minScreens of the Stone AgeToday we’re reviewing the Adam Driver vehicle 65 (2023), a story about humans fighting dinosaurs, except the humans aren’t really humans and the dinosaurs aren’t really dinosaurs. We talk about Triassic archosaurs, shrink-wrapped dinosaurs, and “dinosauroids”, and try to figure out who this film was meant for.Win some SotSA Merch! 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Screens of the Stone AgeEpisode 86: When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) w/ Greeced Lightning PodcastWhen Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) is an Italian sex comedy in which cave women of two warring tribes stage a sex strike until their cave men make peace. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s a stone-age adaptation of the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes. It’s all Greek to us, so we’ve invited Dr. Sara Hales-Brittain and Sam Siegel of the Greeced Lightning podcast to help us understand the erotic chicken cosplay, glory-hole fish emasculation, and petroleum-based conversion therapy. You heard me.
Listen to Greeced Lightning wherever you get your pod...2024-09-151h 14Screens of the Stone AgeWhen Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-DongWhen Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) is an Italian sex comedy in which cave women of two warring tribes stage a sex strike until their cave men make peace. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s a stone-age adaptation of the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes. It’s all Greek to us, so we’ve invited Dr. Sara Hales-Brittain and Sam Siegel of the Greeced Lightning podcast to help us understand the erotic chicken cosplay, glory-hole fish emasculation, and petroleum-based conversion therapy. You heard me.Listen to Greeced Lightning wherever you get your pod...2024-09-151h 14Screens of the Stone AgeIce Age: The MeltdownDr. Advait Jukar, our first ever guest, returns for another crack at the Ice Age franchise. In The Meltdown (2006), we catch up with the world’s most famous computer-animated megafauna as they flee climate change, and a snake-oil salesman, and vultures, and Mesozoic monsters, and in the end it turns out the stakes were never really that high. But if you like long lists of scientific names for animals, then you’re in for a treat!Advait’s links:Florida Museum of Natural History: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/The Montbrook fossil site: https...2024-09-011h 03Screens of the Stone AgeQuest for FireToday we’re joined by Seth Chagi of World of Paleoanthropology to review a stone age classic: Quest for Fire (1981) hits almost all the caveman movie tropes, but to be fair, it probably originated most of them. We talk about the origins of controlled use of fire, “conlangs”, and how this movie has become more scientifically accurate over time.Check out the World of Paleoanthropology:https://worldofpaleoanthropology.org/https://www.youtube.com/@worldofpaleoanthropologyWin some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media:Twit...2024-08-1859 minScreens of the Stone AgeJurassic Park 3Today we’re reviewing the third movie in the Jurassic Park franchise with extra special returning guest and actual star of the film: Dr. Andrew Kinkella! He takes us behind the scenes of his breakout role as “Lecture Attendee #231” and reveals why he gave up his film aspirations to pursue a much more practical career in archaeology.Listen to Dr. Andrew Kinkella on the Pseudo-Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork... Kinkella Teaches Archaeology on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaREZDSg-l3pOyu0AW3tfjAWin some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us...2024-08-041h 00Screens of the Stone AgeIt's About Time So1E01Ross is away today but undergrad student Zach Hoorman is filling in to help us review the first episode of It’s About Time (1966), a sitcom from the creator of Gilligan’s Island about two astronauts who accidentally “break the time barrier” and find themselves stranded one million years in the past. There’s not much real palaeoanthropology to talk about in this episode, so instead Josh does a poor job of explaining Einstein’s theory of special relativity.Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media:Twitter...2024-07-2147 minScreens of the Stone AgeFirebringerFirebringer (2016) is a musical play about the discovery of fire by a tribe of polyamourous, matriarchal ancient humans. They also invent stone tools, art, hunting—they pretty much hit all the classic caveman tropes, and even subvert some of them. The only problem is... it’s a musical.Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media:Twitter: @SotSA_PodcastBluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.comIn this epis...2024-07-071h 02Screens of the Stone AgeEvolutionEvolution (2001) is a star-studded soft-disclosure propaganda film masquerading as a shampoo commercial intended to prepare us for extraterrestrial butt stuff. I think? I mean it doesn’t seem to know what evolution is. In this episode we discuss organic chemistry, asexual reproduction, and Lamarckism, and also firetrucks for some reason.Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media:Twitter: @SotSA_PodcastBluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.comIn...2024-06-231h 01Screens of the Stone AgeAdam and Eve Meet the CannibalsAdam 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_PodcastBluesky...2024-06-091h 04Screens of the Stone AgeCavemen S01E01 Her Embarrassed of CavemanIf 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_PodcastBluesky: @sots...2024-05-2651 minScreens of the Stone AgeJRE#2136 Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble w/ Dr. Andrew KinkellaIt 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/pseudoKinkella Teaches Archaeology on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KinkellaTeachesArchaeologyWin some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media:Tw...2024-05-121h 14Screens of the Stone AgeEvolution's ChildToday 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.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetter...2024-04-2855 minScreens of the Stone AgeOut of DarknessWe 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...2024-04-141h 02Screens of the Stone AgeStar Trek TNG S06E20 The ChaseToday 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.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmai...2024-03-3156 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe Beast from the Beginning of TimeThe 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.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastL...2024-03-1752 minScreens of the Stone AgeBeasts of the Southern WildBeasts 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 soc...2024-03-0344 minScreens of the Stone AgeMusic VideosToday 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=ub747pprmJ8Pearl Jam – Do the Evolution (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI Stoner Kings...2024-02-181h 04Screens of the Stone AgeMaster of the World 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.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email...2024-02-041h 06Screens of the Stone AgeBill and Ted's Excellent AdventureIt’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, inaccura...2024-01-211h 03Screens of the Stone AgeBonus Episode: Il Primo Re - Greeced Lightning PodcastIf 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 ab...2024-01-151h 28Screens of the Stone AgeBrother BearHappy 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.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://le...2024-01-0750 minScreens of the Stone AgeSaving Christmas SpiritSaving 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:The Cana...2023-12-2457 minScreens of the Stone AgeAfter SchoolAfter 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Watch After School (1988) on You...2023-12-101h 00Screens of the Stone AgePokémonToday 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!Tw...2023-11-2653 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe Lost CityToday 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/websiteGet in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/so...2023-11-1250 minScreens of the Stone AgeBlack Mountain Side 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this e...2023-10-291h 08Screens of the Stone AgeThe RuinsWe’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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com I...2023-10-151h 04Screens of the Stone AgeSabretoothIt’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_PodcastFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/Emai...2023-10-0153 minScreens of the Stone AgeBrief Update: YouTube Video Game ReviewsRecently Josh invited Kim and Ross on a wildlife hike in Skyrim. You can listen to that conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EfGDRrcb274If 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!2023-09-2302 minScreens of the Stone AgeAttilaToday 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.inst...2023-09-171h 07Screens of the Stone AgeIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullA 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/ newbru...2023-09-031h 31Screens of the Stone AgeIronmasterToday 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Who is Sam Pasco and why is no...2023-08-201h 03Screens of the Stone AgeThe 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://lett...2023-08-0600 minScreens of the Stone AgeTimelineToday 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In t...2023-07-2359 minScreens of the Stone Age2001: A Space Odyssey2001: 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Watch the 2001: A Space Odyssey dubstep remix...2023-07-091h 07Screens of the Stone AgeChrono-Perambulator 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Watch Chrono-Perambulator on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU6kzpX-7Kw2023-06-2546 minScreens of the Stone AgeEegahToday 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Watch Eegah on YouTube...2023-06-1147 minScreens of the Stone AgeIndiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa...2023-05-281h 04Screens of the Stone AgeTime TrapToday 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:How will humans evolve in space? https://www.sciencealert.com/homo-galacticus-how-space-will-shape-the-humans-of-the-futureSexual selection for human height: https://www.nature.com/articles/35003107Kris Kristofferson in M...2023-05-1443 minScreens of the Stone Age50th Episode Special: SotSA Tier ListToday 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com 2023-04-301h 18Screens of the Stone AgeThe Man from Earth 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Watch The Man from...2023-04-161h 10Screens of the Stone AgeBones S8E11 The Archaeologist in the Cocoon 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com 2023-04-0252 minScreens of the Stone AgeIn 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/KinkellaTeachesArchaeologyThe Pseudoarchaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo The CRM Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/crmarchpodcast Get in touc...2023-03-191h 14Screens of the Stone AgeEpisode 46: The People that Time Forgot (1977)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.
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Th...2023-03-0551 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe People that Time ForgotThe 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Listen to our review of The Land that Time Forgot: https://pasc-scpa.ca/sotsa/sotsa-e22 Th...2023-03-0551 minScreens of the Stone AgeA.R.O.GA.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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ 2023-02-1953 minScreens of the Stone AgeAtlantis: The Lost EmpireWe’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!2023-02-051h 01Screens of the Stone AgeHorror ExpressHorror 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Optography - How Forensic Scientists Once Tried to “See” a Dead Person’s Last Sig...2023-01-2251 minScreens of the Stone AgeTrollTo 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:The Myth and Mystery behind Norwegian Trolls: https://adventures.com/blog/norway-trolls/ Iceland diverts roads around elf homes: https://www.th...2023-01-0858 minScreens of the Stone AgeA Flintstone ChristmasThis 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com...2022-12-2549 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-SecThe 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Based on a graphic novel: https://www.fantagraphics.com/produc...2022-12-1150 minScreens of the Stone AgeAmmoniteAmmonite (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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Stone Girl Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning by Laurence Anholt: https://books.google...2022-11-271h 04Screens of the Stone AgeMammothMammoth (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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://lett...2022-11-1351 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe ThawToday 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Ross MacPhee thinks that a disease drov...2022-10-3056 minScreens of the Stone AgeTrog 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Joan Crawford’s fi...2022-10-1642 minScreens of the Stone AgeInherit the WindInherit 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 :PGet in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:The...2022-10-0257 minScreens of the Stone AgeSkullduggeryToday 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Emai...2022-09-1859 minScreens of the Stone AgeBonus Episode: Indy-anna Jones and the Tower of Ivory - Chippin' AwayOn 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...2022-09-1332 minScreens of the Stone AgeNight at the MuseumOn 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: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:The museum in...2022-09-041h 01Screens of the Stone AgeMohenjo DaroOn this episode we’re joined by Akash Srinivas and Durga Kale of the Chippin’ Away podcast to review Mohenjo Daro (2016), the story of a simple farmboy’s first trip to the big city where he falls in love, discovers his destiny, and saves an entire civilization. Mohenjo Daro was a real city in the Indus Valley, and Akash and Durga help us sift through the real-life archaeological evidence that inspired this film. Listen to Chippin’ Away wherever you listen to podcasts: https://chippinaway.buzzsprout.com/ Follow Chippin’ Away on Twitter and Instagram @chippinawayind View Ak...2022-08-211h 16Screens of the Stone AgeThe Ugly Little BoyThe Ugly Little Boy (1977) is an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s touching short story about a Neanderthal child kidnapped across time by unscrupulous scientists. In this episode we talk about chaos theory, the ethics of human research, and the 1970s Canadian film aesthetic. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Watch The Ugly Little Boy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMJpj5YvyL8 Read th...2022-08-0746 minScreens of the Stone AgePrometheusWe’re venturing into the space age again with Prometheus (2012), the Alien prequel in which an archaeologist couple travels to a distant planet in search of humanity’s creators. Our opinions of this one are mixed, but we can all agree that the influence of the Ancient Astronaut hypothesis on popular culture is uniformly bad. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Scotland was completely covered in in Glaciers during the...2022-07-241h 03Screens of the Stone AgeRRRrrrr!!! On this episode, Predrag (Pedja) Radović joins us as we travel back to l’Âge de Pierre in the French movie RRRrrrr!!! (2004), a comedy in which cavemen use shampoo and investigate the world’s first murder. We wish we understood French better because we probably missed a lot of good puns in the translation.Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Gerard Depardieu claims to have killed two lions: https://www.hu...2022-07-1057 minScreens of the Stone AgeJurassic ParkWe were so preoccupied with whether or not we could we didn’t stop to think if we should! On this episode we’re joined by Dr. Elsa Panciroli to discuss Steven Spielberg’s classic Jurassic Park (1993), even though it has nothing to do with the Stone Age. We all agree it is a perfect movie and possibly the best of all time, but we’re still going to criticize its scientific accuracy, because that’s what we do here. Follow Elsa on Twitter:https://twitter.com/gscienceladyand Instagram:https://www.instag...2022-06-261h 10Screens of the Stone AgeEncino WomanHappy Anniversary! This episode marks one full year of SotSA, so to celebrate we’re reviewing Encino Woman (1996), the made-for-TV sequel to our favourite movie, Encino Man. It’s really not fair to compare the two, but this movie has its own message and it does its best to tell it. Or maybe it’s just the 90s nostalgia... Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Watch a VHS recording of thi...2022-06-1245 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe Cannibal in the Jungle On this episode we’re joined by Dr. Matt Tocheri to discuss The Cannibal in the Jungle (2015), an Animal Planet mockumentary which blurs the line between fact and fiction. The (fictional) story centres around a team of ornithologists who were attacked by a group of Homo floresiensis (the so-called “hobbits”), which happen to be Matt’s area of expertise. We discuss hominin evolution, biogeography, and the boundaries between entertainment and misinformation. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com ...2022-05-291h 18Screens of the Stone AgeNeander-Jin (2011)Neander-Jin: Return of the Neanderthal Man (2011) is an obscure and inexplicable “romantic comedy” about a Neanderthal who somehow travels trough time and falls in love with a young professional woman, but ultimately becomes corrupted by commercialism and fame. What do Japanese culture, German Unity Day, and gummy bears have to do with Neanderthals? Nothing, but yet they are all in this movie for some reason. Don’t worry, Josh has lost his movie-choosing privileges for at least three episodes. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letter...2022-05-1547 minScreens of the Stone AgeHarry and the Hendersons (1987)Regular listeners know how much we love bigfoot, so we’re very excited to be reviewing Harry and the Hendersons (1987), the story of a family of hunters who accidentally befriend a sasquatch and have to protect him from an obsessed cryptozoologist (and the rest of human society as well). What will it take to scientifically prove bigfoot exists? Probably more than we can ethically afford, but at least we can enjoy movies about it! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In th...2022-05-011h 03Screens of the Stone AgeKing Kong (2005)This week we’re taking a look at King Kong (2005), Peter Jackson’s epic three-hour remake of the 1933 classic. We talk about the biology and evolution of island ecosystems, but we should have had a physicist guest host this episode because this movie can’t seem to help breaking the laws of physics! Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Apes are monkeys – deal with it: https://paoloviscardi.com/2011/04/21/apes-are-monkeys-deal-with-it/ Mo...2022-04-2057 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe Land That Time Forgot (1974)Today we’re reviewing The Land That Time Forgot (1974), the story of a WWI submarine crew who gets stranded on a mysterious island populated by dinosaurs and prehistoric people. It takes itself seriously enough to wax philosophical about war and human nature, but it was also featured on Mystery Science Theatre 3000, so its profundity might have been undercut somewhat by its bad dinosaur puppets. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:2022-04-0257 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe Valley of Gwangi (1969) We’re on a stop-motion dinosaurs kick! The Valley of Gwangi can best be described as Jurassic Park with cowboys. Neither are really the focus of this podcast, and while the movie hinted at human and mammal evolution, those topics were never spoken of again once the dinosaurs showed up. I guess the takeaway is that we should have been dinosaur paleontologists. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Jurassic Pa...2022-03-2051 minScreens of the Stone AgeCaveman (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!Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Starr got his big break as t...2022-03-0747 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe Croods (2013)Today we’re reviewing The Croods, the story of a Neanderthal family led by a paranoid patriarch whose authority is threatened by an innovative young modern human. Despite the star-studded cast, Ross may never forgive us for making him watch this one. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Whale phylogeny: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.012 Chang and Eng Bunker, the original conjoined twins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...2022-02-2050 minScreens of the Stone AgeOne Million Years B.C. (1966)We’re diving into the classics for this episode! One Million Years B.C. is recognizable for two things: Ray Harryhausen’s groundbreaking dinosaur animations, and Raquel Welch’s fur bikini. What’s not to like? Well, everything except for those two things, as it turns out. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Seriously, check out this Allosaurus scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x8Okrzo4n8Sima...2022-02-0651 minScreens of the Stone AgeEarly Man (2018)What do you get when you cross Wallace and Gromit, 10,000BC, and The Mighty Ducks? Early Man is the story of a bumbling tribe of Stone Age cavemen who challenge the Bronze Age to a football (soccer) match to save their village. This movie is drenched in references to both football and British culture, and considering this is a nerdy science podcast we mostly understand the latter! Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In...2022-01-2355 minScreens of the Stone Age10,000 BC (2008)There’s no other way to say it: this is the worst movie we’ve reviewed so far. If you’ve seen it, you probably know what we’re talking about, and if not, buckle in for a rant. 10,000 BC is the boring story of a caveman with no personality who needs to rescue a cavewoman with no personality from anachronistic slave traders building the pyramids with the help of domesticated mammoths. If that sounds stupid, it gets even worse: in this episode, we talk ancient aliens, hyperdiffusionism, and the racism underlying archaeological conspiracy theories. Get in touch wi...2022-01-0958 minScreens of the Stone AgeRare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)We have a special holiday episode today! Rare Exports is the crazy story of an illicit archaeological excavation which unearths the frozen remains of Santa Claus, who then goes on a murderous rampage in search of naughty children. To be honest, it’s not really about archaeology at all, but the Venn diagram of stone age movies and Christmas movies basically only overlaps at this one and a Flintstones Christmas special, and I think we made the right choice. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://le...2021-12-2658 minScreens of the Stone AgeAlpha (2018) On today’s episode we are reviewing Alpha (2018), the story of a lost Solutrean boy who befriends and domesticates a wolf, with TWO special guests! Dr. April Nowell studies the origins of art and language and the archaeology of childhood. Dr. Grant Zazula is the palaeontologist for the Government of Yukon, and he was the palaeontology consultant on Alpha! He takes us behind the scenes as we dissect the real-life inspirations behind the language, artifacts, landscapes, and of course ice-age mammals in this beautiful movie. Check out April’s new book, Growing Up in the Ice Age: http...2021-12-121h 20Screens of the Stone AgeMissing Link (2019)In this episode we discover that we’d all secretly rather be squatchin’! Missing Link is the story of a Victorian naturalist who “discovers” Bigfoot when he receives a letter from the mythological ape-man himself asking for his help. We’re so excited to talk sasquatches that I’m a little worried this episode will mark our gradual transition to full-time cryptozoology podcast. Ross has even published a scientific paper on yeti DNA! (Before you get too excited, it turns out it was a bear). Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @S...2021-11-2856 minScreens of the Stone AgeYear One (2009)We’re out of our element in this one. Year One is the story of two cavemen who bumble their way through the Book of Genesis. None of us are biblical archaeologists, but we try our best! It’s ostensibly a comedy, but you wouldn’t know from watching it. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.comIn this episode:Lilith, Adam’s first wife: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lilith-Jewish-folkloreBacula...2021-11-141h 01Screens of the Stone AgeThe Descent (2005) with Marta BorovčaninHappy 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=12021-10-311h 06Screens of the Stone AgeThe Neanderthal Man (1953)We’re getting into the spooky season with a scary movie! The Neanderthal Man is a classic ‘50s monster movie about a mad scientist who creates a serum to turn back evolution and transforms himself into a primitive beast. Actually, it’s not very scary to modern day viewers. It’s not remotely scientifically accurate either. Also, the acting is pretty bad. Still, we had a lot of fun watching it!In this episode:Watch The Neanderthal Man on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6HHl2PqMfs A discussion of the ph...2021-10-1754 minScreens of the Stone AgePlanet of the Apes (1968)It’s a madhouse! A MADHOUSE! In this episode we review Planet of the Apes, the 1968 sci-fi classic in which an astronaut finds himself stranded on a backwards planet where apes rule over humans. For such a silly concept, this movie has some thoughtful things to say about human nature that are sadly as relevant today was they were half a century ago. Oh, and spoiler alert: you’re not going to believe the twist ending! In this episode:We spend probably too long trying to figure out how time works. Pro-tip: you can skip that...2021-10-0357 minScreens of the Stone AgeFuturamaWe watched it; we can’t unwatch it! In this episode we review four episodes of Futurama, an animated series about a pizza delivery boy who accidentally gets cryogenically frozen and wakes up in the year 3000. What does the future have to do with the stone age? There’s only one way to find out! So grab a can of Slurm and a bowl of Bachelor chow and settle in for this Anthology of Interest!In this episode:Greyfriar’s Bobbyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_BobbyRepatriation of the Kabwe...2021-09-1958 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe Flintstones (1994)It had to be done eventually, so we’ve done it! In this episode we meet the Flintstones, a modern stone-age family from the town of Bedrock. Does this movie get the facts right? No, of course it doesn’t. But does it matter? It has dinosaurs!In this episode:♪ Simpsons! ♪ Meet the Simps- I mean, Flintstones! SAA public perceptions of archaeology study (Archaeologists don’t dig up dinosaurs!)https://www.saa.org/education-outreach/public-outreach/public-perceptions-studiesHow old is the Grand Canyon?https://www.canyontours.com/guides/how-old-is...2021-09-0548 minScreens of the Stone AgeThe Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) with Prof. Mirjana RoksandicToday we’re joined by Prof. Mirjana Roksandic to discuss The Clan of the Cave Bear, a story about a modern human adopted by a clan of Neanderthals. Author Jean Auel did a commendable amount of research for her book series, but scientific paradigms change fast in palaeoanthropology. How does the movie hold up 35 years later? Let’s find out! (Note: this episode contains a brief discussion of scenes depicting sexual violence)In this episode:Genetics of skin and hair colourhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2016.0349 Cave Bear cults http...2021-08-2252 minScreens of the Stone AgeIce Age (2002) with Dr. Advait JukarIn this episode we're joined by Dr. Advait Jukar to discuss the 2002 classic Ice Age, the story of three unlikely Pleistocene mammals who team up to rescue a non-adult Homo sapiens, and in the process discover the value of family. If you like Cenozoic mammalian taxonomy, then you're going to love this episode! Find Advait on Twitter @amjukar and at https://advaitjukar.weebly.com/In this episode:We geek out over the scientific names of prehistoric mammals, including:Wooly Mammoth - Mammuthus primigenius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly...2021-08-0855 minScreens of the Stone AgeIceman (2017)Deja Vu! We’re reviewing Iceman again, but it turns out it's a totally different movie. This one tells the story of the final days of Ötzi, a neolithic mummy found frozen in the Ötztal Alps in 1991. Compared to the fictional stories we’ve reviewed previously, this one has a lot of real-life archaeological data to work with. Do the filmmakers get the facts right? And more importantly, does the true(ish) story translate into an entertaining movie? Listen and find out! (Spoiler alert: Ötzi dies in the end!)In this episode:All the dialog is spok...2021-07-2551 minScreens of the Stone AgeIceman (1984)In our third episode, we're reviewing the movie Iceman from 1984. Haven't heard of it? Neither had we, but it's about a Neanderthal who was frozen in ice and thawed out in the 20th Century, just like Encino Man. Unlike Encino Man, however, they don't take him to high school - they debate the ethics of murdering him for science purposes! Does this movie hold up? Well, it's a window into the 80s for sure.In this episode:- Ross watches the wrong movie.- Mammoth mastodonus is not a real taxon...2021-07-111h 02Screens of the Stone AgeEncino Man (1992)In our second episode we're reviewing Encino Man (aka California Man), the story of two unpopular teenagers from Encino, California, who dig up a frozen caveman and, naturally, take him to high school. Is this the best caveman movie of all time? Spoiler alert: yes it is.In this episode:We fawn over Brendan Fraser and Pauly Shore. Sean Astin is in the movie too.Mousterian bowls: http://www.propbay.com/original/mousterian-bowl-encino-man-1992-movie-prop-5413.htmlWhy don’t we call them “Cro-Magnon anymore?”: https://www.thoughtco.com/we-dont-call-them-cro-magnon-170738Did Neande...2021-06-2752 minScreens of the Stone AgeWilliam (2019)It's our first episode! To kick things off, we're reviewing William (2019), a story about a teenaged Neanderthal clone being raised by his ethically-dubious scientist parents in the 21st Century Pacific Northwest. Spoilers ahead!In this episode:The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195450.The_Ugly_Little_BoyDolly the Sheep https://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life-of-dolly/index.htmlScientist seeks 'adventurous woman' to have Neanderthal baby https://www.foxnews.com/science/scientist-seeks-adventurous-woman-to-have-neanderthal-babyHigh-pitched Neanderthal voice - BBC https://www...2021-06-1552 minScreens of the Stone AgeEpisode 1: William (2019)It’s our first episode! To kick things off, we’re reviewing William (2019), a story about a teenaged Neanderthal clone being raised by his ethically-dubious scientist parents in the 21st Century Pacific Northwest. Spoilers ahead!
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The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195450.The_Ugly_Little_Boy
Dolly the Sheep: https://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life-of-dolly/index.html
Scientist seeks ‘adventurous woman’ to have Neanderthal baby: https://www.foxnews.com/science/scientist-seeks-adventurous-woman-to-have-neanderthal-baby
High-pitched Neanderthal voice – BBC: https://www.youtub...2021-06-1552 min