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Happy 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.
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In this episode:
Gryla and the Yule Lads: https://guidetoiceland.is/history-culture/the-icelandic-yule-lads-and-gryla
Icelandic patronymic surnames: https://www.routesnorth.com/language-and-culture/icelandic-last-names-a-simple-guide/
Icelandic Runic Alphabets: https://guidetoiceland.is/history-culture/a-guide-to-icelandic-runes
The Galdrabók (Icelandic Book of Magic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galdrab%C3%B3k
Necropants: https://guidetoiceland.is/connect-with-locals/aldasigmunds/the-necro-pants-revisited
The Rosetta Stone: https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-know-about-rosetta-stone
Geographic coordinate system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system
Jólabókaflóðið: https://jolabokaflod.org/about/founding-story/
One in ten Icelanders will publish a book in their lifetime: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/444296-most-published-writers-per-capita
Snowmance (2017) trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WeODKICqxA
Hot Frosty (2024) trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmi794YO-0w
Kilchurn Castle, Scotland: https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/kilchurn-castle/
Kæstur hákarl (fermented shark): https://yourfriendinreykjavik.com/fermented-shark-iceland/
Harðfiskur (hard fish): https://grapevine.is/food-main/2016/06/30/food-of-the-week-hardfiskur/
Vinarterta: https://macleans.ca/society/life/dont-ask-icelanders-how-to-make-their-traditional-christmas-cake/
Pönnukökur: https://www.cietours.com/en-ca/blog/recipe-icelandic-pancakes
Dimmuborgir: https://guidetoiceland.is/travel-iceland/drive/dimmuborgir
UK Escalator PSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zirp59zm1qE
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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).
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In this episode:
Watch One Million B.C. (1940) on YouTube in glorious AI colour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgJBtn417Qo
Listen to our review of One Million Years B.C. (1966): https://youtu.be/gcTrCwrR0tk?feature=shared
Victor Mature: “I’m not an actor – and I’ve got 64 films to prove it!”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature#:~:text=Mature%20was%20famously%20self%2Ddeprecatory,That%20is%20my%20real%20occupation.
Snow White singing with the animals in the forest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmrr7-W6BA
The TVTropes entry for “Slurpasuar” has a screenshot from this movie: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Slurpasaur
Animal cruelty in One Million B.C.: https://www.californiaherps.com/films/lizardfilms/OneMillionBC1940.html
The modern bikini was born in 1946: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/07/05/culture-re-view-a-short-history-on-the-invention-of-the-bikini
Seventeen thousand-year-old conch shell horn: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966322717/why-a-musician-breathed-new-life-into-a-17-000-year-old-conch-shell-horn
Palaeolithic flutes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_flute
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National 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=2
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In this episode:
The Silence Dogood Letters: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0008
The Charlotte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_(1784_ship)
Revolutionary War codes and invisible ink: https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-revolutionary-war/spying-and-espionage/spy-techniques-of-the-revolutionary-war
Symbols on American Money: https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/frbp/assets/institutional/education/publications/symbols-on-american-money.pdf
Ben Franklin didn’t invent Daylight Saving Time: https://fi.edu/en/science-and-education/benjamin-franklin/daylight-savings-time
George Washington Inaugural Buttons & Medalets 1789 & 1793 by J. Harold Cobb C.P.A.: https://kirkmitchell.tripod.com/CobbGW/GWIBM.pdf
Treasure hunting laws: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/130306-finders-keepers-treasure-hunting-law-uk-us
The Repatriation of Egyptian Art: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1054&context=jtlp
Treasure hunters allege the FBI made off with Civil War-era gold and covered it up: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/1104823285/treasure-hunters-fbi-gold-civil-war
Metal detectorist who stole £3m Viking hoard jailed for five more years: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/12/metal-detectorist-who-stole-3m-viking-hoard-jailed-for-five-more-years
Amistad (1997): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/
Skullduggery (1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEyACQ0Yvy0
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Today 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/pseudo
The CRM Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/crmarchpodcast
Kinkella Teaches Archaeology: https://www.youtube.com/@KinkellaTeachesArchaeology
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In this episode:
Fingerprints of the Gods (1995) by Graham Hancock: https://ia803100.us.archive.org/8/items/fingerprintsofthegodsbygrahamhancock/Fingerprints%20of%20the%20Gods%20by%20Graham%20Hancock.pdf
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882) by Ignatius Donnelly: https://archive.org/details/atlantisantedilu00donnuoft
Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl: https://www.worldhistory.org/Kukulcan/
Palenque: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/411/
Palaeolithic Calendars: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_115
How to track the solstices and equinoxes yourself: https://johnmuirlaws.com/sun-shadows-exploring-the-solstice-and-equinox/
Milky Way Mythology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way_(mythology)
Ayahuasca: https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/ayahuasca/
The Mayan Numeral System: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/waymakermath4libarts/chapter/the-mayan-numeral-system/
Serra da Paituna: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5173343/
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825211000262
Flint Dibble livestream with Ken Feder for #RealArchaeology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEimOPN_pO8
Homer Simpson deceptively edited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A
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Today 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/
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In this episode:
Visit the Paris Catacombs: https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en
The movie was actually filmed in the catacombs: https://ew.com/article/2014/08/28/as-above-so-below-dowdle/
The real Nicolas Flamel was not an alchemist: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/cobbling-together-legend-nicolas-flamel
Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell: https://www.thoughtco.com/dantes-9-circles-of-hell-741539
You can’t get a PhD in “Symbology”: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/09/in-the-dan-brown-books-robert-langdon-is-a-professor-of-religious-symbology-is-there-really-any-such-thing.html
Semiotics: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/courses/BIB/semio2.htm
The Sedlec Ossuary: https://sedlecossuary.com/
We ArE lIvInG iN a SiMuLaTiOn – R/sUpErStOnK kNoWs ThE tRuTh! https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/q0m68d/so_uh_anyone_read_manly_p_hall_lucifer_equals_741/
Manly P. Hall – The Secret Teachings of All Ages: http://www.themasonictrowel.com/books/hall_the_secret-teachings_of_all_ages/files/chapter_29.htm
“It’s the Trevi Fountain! There can be no question!”: https://comb.io/iPRAQX
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It’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.
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In this episode:
Watch Tar (2020) on YouTube (with Sinhala subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5SN57t9OA
Academy Award Nominee Graham Greene as explosives expert Edgar Montrose on The Red Green Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyPjeeoVMU0
Predator Traps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_trap
Predator fossils from La Brea: https://tarpits.org/research-collections/tar-pits-collections
La Brea Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMKptjhffrM
Other tar pits: https://tarpits.org/tar-pits-world
Horses in the Americas: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-americans-spread-horses-through-the-west-earlier-than-thought-180981912/
Matchee Manitou: https://dchp.arts.ubc.ca/entries/Matchi%20Manitou
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Today 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.
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In this episode:
The tongue-eating louse: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/1048718433/the-tongue-eating-louse-does-exactly-what-its-name-suggests
Tyrannosaurs claw: https://www.theprehistoricstore.com/products/tyrannosaurus-rex-life-size-thumb-claw-replica
Velociraptor claw: https://www.fossilcrates.com/products/velociraptor-killing-claw-and-artwork
Dinopedia’s list of dinosaurs in 65: https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/65
Screen Rant’s list of dinosaurs in 65: https://screenrant.com/65-movie-dinosaurs-species-list/
Shrink-wrapping dinosaurs: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/tetrapod-zoology/dinosaurs-and-the-anti-shrink-wrapping-revolution/
The Sixth Extinction (2014) by Elizabeth Kolbert: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185/thesixthextinction
Times when you know the most about dinosaurs: https://i.imgur.com/8I6sTZW.png
65 Pitch Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FwjddnNMcM
The Dinosauroid: https://tetzoo.com/blog/2021/8/30/dinosauroid-at-nearly-40-years-old
Quicksand on Mythbusters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhV-WpY24nE
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When 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 podcasts.
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In this episode:
Watch When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/when-men-carried-clubs-and-women-played-ding-dong
Read Lysistrata by Aristophanes: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7700/7700-h/7700-h.htm
Chi-Raq on Greeced Lightning: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chi-raq-lysistrata/id1667396859?i=1000623681450
Il Primo Re on Greeced Lightning: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/il-primo-re-the-founding-of-rome/id1667396859?i=1000641708307
Attila on SotSA: https://pasc-scpa.ca/sotsa/sotsa-e60
“Spare me your space-age techno-babble, Attila the Hun!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aid8hBOGePw
“Chickens don’t clap!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaS_WXQ9QK0
Circummingo: https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/verb/1700/
Petronius’ werewolf story: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0027%3Atext%3DSatyricon%3Asection%3D62
Lingurium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyngurium
Crannogs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crannog
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Dr. 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://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/sites/montbrook/
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In this episode:
The Channeled Scablands: http://www.sevenwondersofwashingtonstate.com/the-channeled-scablands.html
The fan list of species we’re using in this episode: https://parody.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Species_in_Ice_Age_2:_The_Meltdown
Sloths:
Megalonyx:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalonyx
Nothrotheriops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothrotheriops
Eremotherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremotherium
Paramylodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramylodon
Armadillos:
Dasypus bellus, the beautiful armadillo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasypus_bellus
Pampatheres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampatheriidae
Holmesina (a genus of Pampathere): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmesina
Glyptodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptodon
Sea Creatures:
Huphesuchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hupehsuchus
Metriorhynchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metriorhynchus
Dakosaurus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakosaurus
Brachauchenius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachauchenius
Globidens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globidens
Pacus: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/pacu-fish.htm
Elephants:
Platybelodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platybelodon
Paracerotherium, the inspiration for Star Wars’ ATAT: https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-did-a-mega-mammal-inspire-star-wars/
Aphanobelodon: https://www.deviantart.com/cisiopurple/art/Aphanobelodon-zhaoi-939120720
Other animals:
Megaloceras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaloceros
Protoceratideae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoceratidae
Macrauchenia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrauchenia
Serranía de la Lindosa cave art: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0496
Chalicotherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalicotherium
Tylocephalonyx (dome-headed chalicothere): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylocephalonyx
Mylagaulidae (horned rodents): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylagaulidae
Bootherium (extinct Muskox): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootherium
Dodo (Raphuscucullatus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
The only painting of a dodo from life? https://www.reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/ts256f/the_dodos_true_coloursa_dodo_that_was_painted/
Other dodo sketches from life: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228371340_The_history_of_the_Dodo_Raphus_cucullatus_and_the_penguin_of_Mauritius
The White Dodo: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/anh.2004.31.1.57
New woolly rhino mummy: https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/siberian-gold-miners-accidentally-find-ancient-woolly-rhino-mummy-with-horn-and-soft-tissues-still-intact
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Today 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/@worldofpaleoanthropology
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In this episode:
Watch Quest for Fire on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MV1H_bAt-E
Nonhuman ape sense of humour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJarjlRVZzY
Bonobos laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhlHx5ivGGk
Bonobo sex: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bonobo-sex-and-society-2006-06/
Sabre-toothed cats’ coat patterns: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/laelaps/did-saber-cats-have-spotted-and-striped-coats/
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Ape
Anthony Burgess created the Ulam language: https://www.anthonyburgess.org/quest-for-fire/quest-for-language/
Australian firehawks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zcJs16aZ5s
Were there any human tribes who didn’t have the ability to start fire? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/872kfd/is_it_true_that_ther_arewere_isolated_peoples_who/
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Today 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-l3pOyu0AW3tfjA
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In this episode:
The strange saga of Spinosaurus: https://carnegiemnh.org/the-strange-saga-of-spinosaurus-the-semiaquatic-dinosaurian-superpredator/
Spinosaurus, Baryonyx, and Suchomimus: https://www.sciencethatstuff.com/post/2018/03/01/spinosaurus-suchomimus-baryonyx-and-irritator-what-were-they-werent-they-all-just-the-sam
Pteranodon means “Toothless Wing”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteranodon
Velociraptor had feathers: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/velociraptor-facts.html
Tyrannosaurus had lips: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-had-lips-that-concealed-its-teeth-study-says-180981914/
The history of 3D printing: https://www.autodesk.com/design-make/articles/history-of-3d-printing
Egyptian mummy voice reconstruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Iok_QiE64
Paleontologist Jack Horner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Horner_(paleontologist)
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Ross 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.
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In this episode:
Watch It’s About Time on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QguKIuhEiI
Neanderthal eyes and brains: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21759233
Just-so stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
Hair in the Palaeolithic: https://www.academia.edu/81780985/Bad_Hair_Days_in_the_Paleolithic_Modern_Re_Constructions_of_the_Cave_Man?f_ri=2403396
Einstein’s theory of special relativity: https://www.space.com/36273-theory-special-relativity.html
The speed of light on a train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVKFBaaL4uM
1960s car crash songs: https://riffmagazine.com/mp3/rewind-20220122/
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Firebringer (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.
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Watch Firebringer (2016) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmVuNlu0LCk
The earliest controlled use of fire: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2743299
The oldest stone tools: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32804177
Neanderthals hafted tools with birch tar: https://www.science.org/content/article/50000-year-old-tar-smeared-tool-shows-neanderthal-smarts
The oldest cave paintings: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap7778
Divje Babe Neanderthal “flute”: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/holes-in-a-bone-flute-or-fluke
Palaeolithic Lithophones: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0092.1985.tb00229.x
Homo naledi: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-naledi-your-most-recently-discovered-human-relative.html
Early art at Blombos Cave: https://theconversation.com/south-africas-blombos-cave-is-home-to-the-earliest-drawing-by-a-human-103017
Goog Enough on Twitter: https://x.com/goog_enough
Sima de los Huesos: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-sima-hominins-an-ancient-human-cold-case
The Mauer mandible: https://efossils.org/page/boneviewer/homo%20heidelbergensis/Mauer%201
Bae et al. (2023) Moving away from “the Muddle in the Middle” toward solving the Chibanian puzzle: https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.22011
Roksandic et al. (2021) Resolving the “muddle in the middle”: The case for Homo bodoensis sp. nov. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21929
The Middle Pleistocene was renamed to “Chibanian”: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chibanian-age-earths-newly-named-geological-period-180974224/
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Evolution (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.
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Evolution (2001) production information: https://www.cinema.com/articles/458/evolution-production-information.phtml
Tillers and Quillers (i.e. fire trucks): https://www.fireapparatusmagazine.com/features/cantankerous-wisdom-tillers-quillers/
Head and Shoulders “Intensive treatment”: https://reference.medscape.com/drug/selsun-blue-tersifoam-selenium-sulfide-topical-343485
Lamarckism: https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/1800s/early-concepts-of-evolution-jean-baptiste-lamarck/
Asexual reproduction in plants: https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_General_Biology/Biology_(Kimball)/16%3A_The_Anatomy_and_Physiology_of_Plants/16.03%3A_Reproduction_in_Plants/16.3E%3A_Asexual_Reproduction_in_Plants
Stephen J. Gould (1989) Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History: https://archive.org/details/wonderfullifebur0000goul_r6i5/page/n7/mode/2up
Multiple sexes in fungi: https://www.the-scientist.com/this-fungus-has-more-than-17-000-sexes-69930
Starfish Regeneration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_regeneration
Hypothetical types of biochemistry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry
Natural Gas Odorizers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odorizer
Evolution wouldn’t follow the same path twice: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190709-would-humans-evolve-again-if-we-rewound-time
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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.
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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!
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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
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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.
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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
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