Episode 93: The Christmas Quest (2024)

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

• Icelandic patronymic surnames

• Icelandic Runic Alphabets

• The Galdrabók (Icelandic Book of Magic)

• Necropants

• The Rosetta Stone

• Geographic coordinate system

• Jólabókaflóðið

• One in ten Icelanders will publish a book in their lifetime

• Snowmance (2017) trailer

• Hot Frosty (2024) trailer

• Kilchurn Castle, Scotland

• Kæstur hákarl (fermented shark)

• Harðfiskur (hard fish)

• Vinarterta

• Pönnukökur

• Dimmuborgir

• UK Escalator PSA

Episode 92: One Million B.C. (1940)

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

• Listen to our review of One Million Years B.C. (1966)

• Victor Mature: “I’m not an actor – and I’ve got 64 films to prove it!”

• Snow White singing with the animals in the forest

• The TVTropes entry for “Slurpasuar” has a screenshot from this movie

• Animal cruelty in One Million B.C.

• The modern bikini was born in 1946

• Seventeen thousand-year-old conch shell horn

• Palaeolithic flutes

Episode 91: National Treasure (2004) with the History According to Hollywood Podcast

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

• The Charlotte

• Revolutionary War codes and invisible ink

• Symbols on American Money

• Ben Franklin didn’t invent Daylight Saving Time

• George Washington Inaugural Buttons & Medalets 1789 & 1793 by J. Harold Cobb C.P.A.

• Treasure hunting laws

• The Repatriation of Egyptian Art

• Treasure hunters allege the FBI made off with Civil War-era gold and covered it up

• Metal detectorist who stole £3m Viking hoard jailed for five more years

• Amistad (1997)

• Skullduggery (1970)

Episode 90: Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas, Episode 6 (2024)

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

• Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882) by Ignatius Donnelly

• Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl

• Palenque

• Palaeolithic Calendars

• How to track the solstices and equinoxes yourself

• Milky Way Mythology

• Ayahuasca

• The Mayan Numeral System

• Serra da Paituna

• The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

• Flint Dibble livestream with Ken Feder for #RealArchaeology

• Homer Simpson deceptively edited

Episode 89: As Above, So Below (2014)

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.

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In this episode:

• Visit the Paris Catacombs

• The movie was actually filmed in the catacombs

• The real Nicolas Flamel was not an alchemist

• Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell

• You can’t get a PhD in “Symbology”

• Semiotics

• The Sedlec Ossuary

• We ArE lIvInG iN a SiMuLaTiOn – R/sUpErStOnK kNoWs ThE tRuTh!

• Manly P. Hall – The Secret Teachings of All Ages

• “It’s the Trevi Fountain! There can be no question!”

Episode 88: Tar (2020)

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)

• Academy Award Nominee Graham Greene as explosives expert Edgar Montrose on The Red Green Show

• Predator Traps

• Predator fossils from La Brea

• La Brea Woman

• Other tar pits

• Horses in the Americas

• Matchee Manitou

Episode 87: 65 (2023)

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

• Tyrannosaurs claw

• Velociraptor claw

• Dinopedia’s list of dinosaurs in 65

• Screen Rant’s list of dinosaurs in 65

• Shrink-wrapping dinosaurs

• The Sixth Extinction (2014) by Elizabeth Kolbert

• Times when you know the most about dinosaurs

• 65 Pitch Meeting

• The Dinosauroid

• Quicksand on Mythbusters

Episode 86: When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) w/ Greeced Lightning Podcast

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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In this episode:

• Watch When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong on the Internet Archive

• Read Lysistrata by Aristophanes:

• Chi-Raq on Greeced Lightning

• Il Primo Re on Greeced Lightning

• Attila on SotSA

• “Spare me your space-age techno-babble, Attila the Hun!”

• “Chickens don’t clap!”

• Circummingo

• Petronius’ werewolf story

• Lingurium

• Crannogs

Episode 85: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) w/ Dr. Advait Jukar

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

• The fan list of species we’re using in this episode

  
  Sloths:

• Megalonyx

• Nothrotheriops

• Eremotherium

• Paramylodon

  Armadillos:

• Dasypus bellus, the beautiful armadillo

• Pampatheres

• Holmesina (a genus of Pampathere)

• Glyptodon
  

  Sea Creatures:

• Huphesuchus

• Metriorhynchus

• Dakosaurus

• Brachauchenius

• Globidens

• Pacus

  Elephants:

• Platybelodon

• Paracerotherium, the inspiration for Star Wars’ ATAT

• Aphanobelodon

  Other animals:

• Megaloceras

• Protoceratideae

• Macrauchenia

• Serranía de la Lindosa cave art

• Chalicotherium

• Tylocephalonyx (dome-headed chalicothere)

• Mylagaulidae (horned rodents)

• Bootherium (extinct Muskox)

• Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

• The only painting of a dodo from life?

• Other dodo sketches from life

• The White Dodo

• New woolly rhino mummy

Episode 84: Quest for Fire (1981) w/ Seth Chagi

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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In this episode:

• Watch Quest for Fire on YouTube

• Nonhuman ape sense of humour

• Bonobos laugh

• Bonobo sex

• Sabre-toothed cats’ coat patterns

• The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris

• Anthony Burgess created the Ulam language

• Australian firehawks

• Were there any human tribes who didn’t have the ability to start fire?

Episode 83: Jurassic Park 3 (2001) w/ Dr. Andrew Kinkella

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

Kinkella Teaches Archaeology on YouTube

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In this episode:

• The strange saga of Spinosaurus

• Spinosaurus, Baryonyx, and Suchomimus

• Pteranodon means “Toothless Wing”

• Velociraptor had feathers

• Tyrannosaurus had lips

• The history of 3D printing

• Egyptian mummy voice reconstruction

• Paleontologist Jack Horner

Episode 82: It’s About Time S01E01 (1966)

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

• Neanderthal eyes and brains

• Just-so stories

• Hair in the Palaeolithic

• Einstein’s theory of special relativity

• The speed of light on a train

• 1960s car crash songs

Episode 81: Firebringer (2016)

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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In this episode:

• Watch Firebringer (2016) on YouTube

• The earliest controlled use of fire

• The oldest stone tools

• Neanderthals hafted tools with birch tar

• The oldest cave paintings

• Divje Babe Neanderthal “flute”

• Palaeolithic Lithophones

• Homo naledi

• Early art at Blombos Cave

• Goog Enough on Twitter

• Sima de los Huesos

• The Mauer mandible

• Bae et al. (2023) Moving away from “the Muddle in the Middle” toward solving the Chibanian puzzle

• Roksandic et al. (2021) Resolving the “muddle in the middle”: The case for Homo bodoensis sp. nov.

• The Middle Pleistocene was renamed to “Chibanian”

Episode 80: Evolution (2001)

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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In this episode:

• Evolution (2001) production information

• Tillers and Quillers (i.e. fire trucks)

• Head and Shoulders “Intensive treatment”

• Lamarckism

• Asexual reproduction in plants

• Stephen J. Gould (1989) Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

• Multiple sexes in fungi

• Starfish Regeneration

• Hypothetical types of biochemistry

• Natural Gas Odorizers

• Evolution wouldn’t follow the same path twice

Episode 79: Adam and Eve Meet the Cannibals (1983)

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?

• Cannibalism in the bible

• Simian and feline immunodeficiency viruses (SIV and FIV)

• Disease transmission by cannibalism

• Can vampires get HIV?

• How many holes does a human have?

• Can you run a string through your entire GI tract?

• Family Guy Seagulls are not cannibals

• Origin and diversification of birds

• Plants take up chronic wasting disease prions in the lab

• Kuru disease

• Did Adam and Eve have bellybuttons?

• Men don’t have fewer ribs than women

• Was Eve made from Adam’s baculum?

• Os clitoridis (baubellum)

Episode 78: Cavemen S01E01 Her Embarrassed of Caveman (2007)

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

• Watch the full Cavemen series

• Green et al. (2010) A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome

• Green et al. (2006) Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA

• Denny, the first generation Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid

• Interbreeding between archaic humans

• “Ghost lineages” in human ancestry

• Oase 1 – a modern human with recent Neanderthal ancestry

• Bacho Kiro – modern humans with recent Neanderthal ancestry

• Nikolai Valuev (is not a Neanderthal)

• Allometry

Episode 77: JRE #2136 Graham Hancock and Flint Dibble (2024)

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

• Flint Dibble on why he did JRE - Sapiens

• John Hoopes on Hancock’s book Talisman

• Aaron Rabinowitz on antisemitism in Hancock’s work – The Skeptic

• The 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

• The Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate

• Andrew Kinkella on Wired Tech Support

• Flint Dibble on Archaeosoup

• Stefan Milo – Atlantis is Dead

• Archaeodeath with Fredrik Trusoham of Digging Up Ancient Aliens on the Dibble/Hancock debate

• Andrew Kinkella on the Dibble/Hancock debate

Episode 76: Evolution’s Child (1999)

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

• Origins of sickle cell disease

• Ancient pollution from metallurgy

• Present-day DNA contamination in ancient DNA

• A woman requested to be impregnated by Ötzi’s sperm

• Evolution of lactase persistence

• Museum of Anthropology, UBC

• Robson Square Steps

• Epigenetics

• “Genetic memory” in mice

• Epigenetic effects of famines

• Geordi is a fucking incel

• Star trek the Next Futurama

Episode 75: Out of Darkness (2022)

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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In this episode:

• Palaeolithic thaumatrope/whirlygig

• Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

• Microliths of the Aurignacian

• Earliest evidence of woven fabric

• Hairdos in prehistoric Europe

• Prehistoric humans had better teeth than we do

• Fictional languages are called “conlangs”

• Self defense against strangulation

• David Bock does our graphic design; check out his amazing work!

• Check out our great new YouTube title cards!

Episode 74: Star Trek: TNG S06E20 The Chase (1993)

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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In this episode:

• Pottery by Aurora

• Archaeological laws and ethics

• Naiskos

• Polychrome

• Seth Rogen’s Sidecar Ashtray

• Xenoarchaeology

• Animals with archaeological records

• Ancient DNA (aDNA)

• Environmental DNA (eDNA)

• Marine sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA)