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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.
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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.
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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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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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In this episode:
Where did Cain's wife come from? https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/department/biblical-views-who-did-cain-marry/
Cannibalism in the bible: https://www.openbible.info/topics/cannibalism
Simian and feline immunodeficiency viruses (SIV and FIV): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1659310/
Disease transmission by cannibalism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2189571/
Can vampires get HIV? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/nwcs93/vampires_can_vampires_get_hiv_or_aids/
How many holes does a human have? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ
Can you run a string through your entire GI tract? https://www.straightdope.com/21341206/can-yogas-swallow-a-cloth-and-have-it-come-out-the-urk-other-end
Family Guy Seagulls are not cannibals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG0MxhkQ67w
Origin and diversification of birds: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.003
Plants take up chronic wasting disease prions in the lab: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wasting-disease/plants-can-take-cwd-causing-prions-soil-lab-what-happens-if-they-are-eaten
Kuru disease: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/kuru
Did Adam and Eve have bellybuttons? https://www.doesgodexist.org/SepOct06/TheGreatBellyButtonDebate.html
Men don’t have fewer ribs than women: https://answersingenesis.org/creationism/arguments-to-avoid/women-have-more-ribs-than-men/
Was Eve made from Adam’s baculum? https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/ncbi-rofl-what-did-god-do-with-adams-penis-bone
Os clitoridis (baubellum): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_clitoridis
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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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In this episode:
Watch JRE#2136 Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-DL1_EMIw6w?si=2iZKAAz5vHIVdcP_
Flint Dibble on why he did JRE - Sapiens: https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/graham-hancock-joe-rogan-archaeology/
John Hoopes on Hancock’s book Talisman: https://twitter.com/KUHoopes/status/1598744692321026065?lang=en
Aaron Rabinowitz on antisemitism in Hancock’s work – The Skeptic: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/02/netflixs-ancient-apolocalypse-hosted-by-graham-hancock-from-alien-conspiracies-to-antisemitism/
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion
I forgot to mention! Hancock wrote about about a lost civilization on Mars. He has definitely supported the ancient aliens hypothesis: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53330.The_Mars_Mystery
The Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate: https://www.youtube.com/live/z6kgvhG3AkI?si=Xc1SRmSBCYO7d5l2
Andrew Kinkella on Wired Tech Support: https://youtu.be/pUstiwexvkI?si=AV2ql0wjBsJvjpsQ
Flint Dibble on Archaeosoup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pVbAT8LORA
Stefan Milo – Atlantis is Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWugM4XRPuc
Archaeodeath with Fredrik Trusoham of Digging Up Ancient Aliens on the Dibble/Hancock debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOzxl7wyTDs
Andrew Kinkella on the Dibble/Hancock debate: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo/140
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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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In this episode:
Alzheimer’s disease throughout history: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00052-9
Origins of sickle cell disease: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/blood-types/diversity/african-american-blood-donors/history-of-sickle-cell-disease.html
Ancient pollution from metallurgy: https://vice.com/en/article/z4m7e4/ancient-metallurgy-suggests-the-anthropocene-started-thousands-of-years-ago
Present-day DNA contamination in ancient DNA: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000081
A woman requested to be impregnated by Ötzi’s sperm: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418206/
Evolution of lactase persistence: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230503/What-is-lactase-persistence-and-how-did-it-evolve.aspx
Museum of Anthropology, UBC: https://moa.ubc.ca/
Robson Square Steps: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/robson-square-accessibility-1.5255477
Epigenetics: https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/epigenetics.htm
“Genetic memory” in mice: https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnn.3594
Epigenetic effects of famines: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.html
Geordi is a fucking incel: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/9uz83w/remember_the_time_dr_brahms_stumbled_upon_geordis/
Star trek the Next Futurama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU09gLXwc_A&list=PLghELjfG88YEGpW22Y5AAZxiihGj3qEPb
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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
David Bock does our graphic design; check out his amazing work! https://www.dkbock.com/
Check out our great new YouTube title cards! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC04f7AHZm92A0wGw-kA6yww
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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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The Beast from the Beginning of Time (1965) is a story we’ve seen many times: archaeologists find a caveman who wakes up and kills everyone. It doesn’t have the camp of Trog, or the star power of Horror Express, or the quotable lines of The Neanderthal Man, or the catchy surf-rock tunes of Eegah, or the budget of Neander-Jin... Well, enjoy the episode.
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Watch The Beast from the Beginning of Time on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxtboADRTuw
Liquid scintillation counting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdFWcJFMUlI
Rigor mortis: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-causes-rigor-mortis-601995
Lichtenberg figures (Lightning fern burns): https://www.glenallenweather.com/alink/20thunder/Lichtenberg%20Figures.pdf
Thagomizer: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/07/thagomizer-why-stegosaurus-spiky-tail.html
Learn more about archaeological giants on Digging Up Ancient Aliens: https://diggingupancientaliens.com/episode-55-giants.html
The Myth of the Moundbuilders: https://www.thoughtco.com/moundbuilder-myth-history-and-death-171536
J.B.S. Haldane’s “Precambrian rabbits”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precambrian_rabbit
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) tells the story of Hushpuppy, a young girl living with her daddy in the Louisiana bayou, adapting to a changing world: her father is dying, the climate is warming, and prehistoric beasts are returning from the ice to haunt her. Aurochs, the titular beasts, were real Pleistocene animals – although the movie takes some artistic liberties. It’s a wonderful movie with many layers, but the only one we’re really qualified to dissect is the evolution of cows.
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Aurochs, the extinct wild ox: https://www.britannica.com/animal/aurochs
Aurochs behind the scenes in Beasts of the Southern Wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUE0VXyLi7w
Get Ross’ book! The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain’s Lost Mammals: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/missing-lynx-9781472957351/
When the Nazis tried to bring back animals from extinction: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-nazis-tried-bring-animals-back-extinction-180962739/
Cows Gone Wild: The Cattle of Heck: Cows Gone Wild: The Cattle of Heck: https://daily.jstor.org/cows-gone-wild-the-cattle-of-heck/
The Lascaux Shaft Scene: https://alistaircoombs.com/2018/08/24/the-lascaux-shaft-scene/
Cows kill more people than sharks or crocodiles: https://www.businessinsider.com/deadliest-animals-us-dont-include-sharks-crocodiles-dogs-cows-2019-8
Elysian Fields: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-were-the-elysian-fields-in-greek-mythology-116736
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Today we’re diving into the music industry and reviewing seven stone age music videos: from Pearl Jam to Wu-Tang Clan, from folk to metal, musicians seem to love the ancient past. We explore the intersection of art and science, the way every generation projects their own ideals onto the past, and the disturbing amount of sperm in these videos!
Featured music videos:
Fatboy Slim – Right Here, Right Now (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8
Pearl Jam – Do the Evolution (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI
Stoner Kings – Cro Magnon (2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8HpWcF1tL0
Wu-Tang Clan – Gravel Pit (2000): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of-lpfsBR8U
Josh Ritter – The Curse (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxWxiuJRApU
Caroline Polachek – Welcome To My Island (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxgcz_6GKX0
Hotlegs – Neanderthal Man (1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e0qYP_PTlY
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A new placoderm fish was just published with a huge underbite like the one in the Fatboy Slim video! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231747
The Miller-Urey experiment: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment
The myth of the 1929 stock market crash suicides:
https://www.straightdope.com/21343548/after-the-1929-stock-market-crash-did-investors-really-jump-out-of-windows
Cro magnon 1 had a tumorous face: https://www.newsweek.com/cro-magnon-1-had-skin-disorder-causing-face-be-covered-tumors-867225
Stoner Kings: Alpha Male (2019): https://stonerkings.bandcamp.com/album/alpha-male
Michael Majalhati, the Canadian Rebel Starbuck: https://majalahti.com/
Hevisaurus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhhlYdySqQ
Winds of Genocide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br19bey-TPA
Cemican: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UTRDQtpgL8
Heilung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbc_Fwbt50
Jurassic Park Scarf: https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Jurassic-Park-Large-Knitted-Scarf-When-Dinosaurs-Ruled-The-Earth/PRD77TLFPB7K79C
Josh Ritter on Q (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-vLDmvvjHY
The Chimera of Arezzo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_of_ArezzoCaroline Polachek visits a Przewalski’s horse with Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/caroline-polachek-desire-new-album-profile.html
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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.
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In this episode:
The world’s oldest spears: https://archive.archaeology.org/9705/newsbriefs/spears.html
Modern humans ate Neanderthals? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/may/17/neanderthals-cannibalism-anthropological-sciences-journal
The Fore people and Kuru disease: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged
Endocannibalism, finger amputation, and other funerary practices: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-these-5-death-rituals-from-around-the-world-honor-the-dead
You’re Wrong About – Survival in the Andes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flight-571-survival-in-the-andes-with-blair-braverman/id1380008439?i=1000584554361
The Last Podcast on the Left – Survival in the Andes: https://podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/episode-557-survival-in-the-andes-part-i-stayin-alive/id437299706?i=1000638739044
The Cult of the Cave Bear: https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-cult-of-the-cave-bear/
A Cross-cultural Perspective on Upper Palaeolithic Hand Images with Missing Phalanges:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-018-0016-8
I couldn’t find an ethnographic source for the use of birthing poles, but here’s an article from OrgasmicBirth.com: https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/birthing-pole/
Were bees the source of the Shanidar burial pollen? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/28/study-casts-doubt-on-neanderthal-flower-burial-theory
Samson killed a thousand men with a donkey’s jawbone: https://www.bible.com/bible/compare/JDG.15.16
Chewbacca’s voice: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/the-remarkable-way-chewbacca-got-a-voice/375697/
Badger badger badger… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1jEh2bUWuM
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It’s Episode 69, dude! So we watched Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), the classic time-travel movie starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as two slackers collecting historical figures to help them pass their history final in order to save a future civilization founded on their band’s music. Imagine how weird that sentence would sound if you had never seen this movie–but of course you have seen it. And just in case you missed it, there are nine seconds featuring cave people in this movie, so it counts!
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Graphic Designer David Bock designed our logo: https://www.dkbock.com/
Oldest evidence of controlled use of fire: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans
Finlayson et al. (2012) Birds of a Feather: Neanderthal Exploitation of Raptors and Corvids: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0045927
Neanderthals wore eagle talons as jewellery: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.17095
Roebrooks et al. (2012) Use of red ochre by early Neandertals: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1112261109
The evolution of language: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.96.14.8028
Acheulean Handaxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe
Know your King Henrys: https://www.historyhit.com/the-8-king-henrys-of-england-in-order/
The Iron Maiden was an 18th Century myth: https://www.livescience.com/55985-are-iron-maidens-torture-devices.html
Napoleon wasn’t that short: https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/napoleon-short.htm
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If you like Screens of the Stone Age, you're gonna love Greeced Lightning, a podcast about Greek and Roman mythology and history in movies! Sara and Sam joined us for our review of Attila, and here we present the other half of that collaboration:
Greeced Lightning is back! We’re kicking off Season 2 with a foreign film and a very special guest. Josh Lindal of Screens of the Stone Age podcast joins us for the story of Romulus and Remus and the movie Il Primo Re: twin drama, swamp settlements, ancient hominids, and how often we think about the Roman Empire.
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https://linktr.ee/greecedlightning
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Happy New Year! To kick of 2024 we’re reviewing Disney’s Brother Bear (2003), the story of a human learning to be nice to animals by being forced to live as one. This is low-key a stone age movie – it’s set in Beringia during the Pleistocene, but other than some mammoths and glaciers, it doesn’t shove its stone-age-ness in your face. In this episode we talk cave art, megafauna, and, as always, Canadiana.
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Bob and Doug McKenzie: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=C_IXyCsZ4bA&list=OLAK5uy_kmIuOa4rRCtjC9tBvhOf35Nda6aV6G-ro
Buy yerself a toque, eh? https://toque.ca/
Petroforms in Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba: https://whiteshellpetroforms.com/
Navajo Sand Painting: https://navajopeople.org/navajo-sand-painting.htm
Indigenous languages of the Arctic: https://www.arcticpeoples.com/sagastallamin-arctic-languages
The Peopling of the North American Arctic: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferraff/2019/06/13/the-peopling-of-the-north-american-arctic/
Bald eagle vs. red-tailed hawk calls: https://www.treehugger.com/you-know-call-bald-eagle-you-hear-tv-thats-not-bald-eagle-4864532
The last woolly mammoths went extinct on Wrangel Island 4000 years ago: https://www.livescience.com/woolly-mammoth-genetic-problems.html
The St. Paul Island mammoths: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/st-paul-island-mammoths-most-accurately-dated-prehistoric-extinction-ever/
Pleistocene megafauna of Beringia: https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-17-1-4.htm
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