Episode 20: Caveman (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!

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In this episode:

• Starr got his big break as the drummer for a 1960s boy band, but you’d probably recognize him best as the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine

• The Chewits Muncher

• Ringo Starr met his wife Barbara Bach on the set of Caveman

• Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human by Richard Wrangham

• Early use of fire at Koobi Fora, Kenya

• The Divje Babe “Flute”

• Neanderthals made glue from birch tar

• The West Tofts Acheulean Handaxe features a shell fossil

• The Ica Stones

• Gideon Mantel and the reconstruction of Iguanodon

• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte