Episode 7: The 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!)

• How old is the Grand Canyon?

• “Peking Man” – Homo erectus from Zhoukoudian Cave, China

• The Bone Wars

• Brontosaurus is back!

• Mary Anning

• Do we live longer today than people in the past?

• Cranium D3444 from Dmanisi, Georgia, is missing almost all of its teeth.

• The Vasquez Rocks