Episode 58: Ironmaster (1983)

Today we’re getting back to our roots with a true caveman movie: Ironmaster (1983) tells the story of a tribe of stone age bodybuilders and shampoo models who discover ironworking in a volcano and go on a rampage massacring their neighbours with swords, and the only one who can stop them is an oily-chested steroid enthusiast.

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In this episode:

• Who is Sam Pasco and why is nobody talking about him?

• Seriously, check out this movie poster (nsfw)

• Custer State Park, South Dakota

• King Tut’s meteorite dagger

• The Cape York meteorite

• Telluric (Native) iron

• Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe

• Pallasite meteorites look otherworldly

• Syphilis and leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in archaeology

• History of the bow and arrow

• How to shoot a bow and arrow

• Thanks to Duncan for confirmation of UofA’s Egyptian Mummy!

• X-Rays and CT scans of the University of Alberta’s Egyptian Mummy