Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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The podcast where scientists review movies about prehistoric people. https://screensofthestoneage.com
On our latest episode, we’re reviewing the feminist classic The Wild Women of Wongo (1958), which tells the story of two prehistoric tribes: one where all the women are beautiful and all the men are brutes, and the other vice versa. 🧪🏺 youtu.be/lkAvGaO3Irc
Episode 134: The Wild Women of Wongo (1958) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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On our latest episode we reviewed 2017's First Man (Premiere Homme), a "documentary" with an interesting relationship to facts and an uncomfortable perspective on human nature 🧪🏺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn9r...
Episode 133: First Man (2017) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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On our latest episode we reviewed In the Blink of an Eye (2026), in which Rashida Jones is a PhD candidate in palaeoanthropology and also raises a child who grows up to destroy the earth (thanks to @verain.bsky.social for the suggestion!) 🧪🏺 youtu.be/xdOo_5mhKso
Episode 132: In the Blink of an Eye (2026) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Did you catch our latest #podcast episode? On Part 2 in our series on caveman cartoons, we reviewed Porky Pig, Mighty Mouse, Pink Panther, and more! youtu.be/egWBAgc_XYA
Episode 131: Classic Caveman Cartoons (Part 2) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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We're about to hit 300 followers on YouTube! I see that we currently have 799 followers on Bluesky. I'm an archaeologist, not a mathematician, but I think that means that some of you still haven't subscribed to our YouTube channel yet. Wanna help us out? www.youtube.com/@screensofth...
Did you catch our latest #podcast episode yet? We're reviewing classic caveman cartoons! There are so many we had to make it a two-parter - stay tooned for part two next week! 🧪🏺 youtu.be/X_6hnedu24c
Episode 130: Classic Caveman Cartoons (Part 1) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Get off our lawn you kids! On today's #podcast episode we're reviewing prehistoric AI slop. Is this the end of human creativity, or are we just stuck in the Stone Age and refusing to evolve? 🧪🏺 youtu.be/u_JLo8YNX8k
Episode 128: Caveman AI Slop | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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On our latest episode we've invited Dr. Andrew Kinkella back to discuss Don Verdean (2015), the story of a Biblical pseudoarchaeologist who gets in over his head - from the writer/director team behind Napoleon Dynamite! youtu.be/MP8O7NI_fvc
Episode 127: Don Verdean (1983) w/ Dr. Andrew Kinkella | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Wow, did I forget to post our new episodes for the past month? We really need a social media manager. If anyone wants to volunteer, we can't afford to pay anything, but we can't offer any other benefits or incentives either. Anyway, we watched Cave of Forgotten Dreams: youtu.be/Z6XImTQ5o6o
Episode 125: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Did you know we posted our regular episode last weekend? I just forgot to share it here! It's about cavemen in advertising, and it's a pretty good one: youtu.be/Z-tq7i-o178 🧪🏺
Episode 123: Stone Age Advertising (Part 1) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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On our latest episode we're reviewing Boonie Bears: Blast into the Past (2019), and exploring one of China's most popular children's series, with almost 900 episodes and ten feature films grossing over $1 billion at the box office! 🧪🏺 youtu.be/JBW9mf1_3mE
Episode 122: Boonie Bears: Blast into the Past (2019) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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On today's episode we’re reviewing Cavegirl (1985), a movie about a teenage incel and his manic pixie cave girl, which Wikipedia misleadingly describes as a “sex comedy”, since it fails to deliver on both fronts 🧪🏺 youtu.be/4bfJsO3frI4
Episode 121: Cavegirl (1985) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Today we’re reviewing Korg: 70,000 B.C. (1974), a children’s TV series about a Neanderthal family from Hanna-Barbera, creators of The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, and more 🧪🏺 youtu.be/UvfQMlinjTA
Episode 120: Korg: 70,000 B.C. (1974) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Happy New Year! Today we're channeling our 2000s-era edgelord atheism and reviewing The Rap Guide to Evolution, an album and associated series of music videos by artist Baba Brinkman 🧪🏺 youtu.be/CzP7ZmgyFIg
Episode 119: The Rap Guide to Evolution (2009) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Happy Longnight! To celebrate the December Solstice, we're reviewing a holiday episode of Cavemen, the 2007 sitcom based on the popular Geico insurance commercials 🧪🏺 youtu.be/GQKPLac4Ae0
Episode 118: Cavemen S01E09 Caveman Holiday (2007) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Today we’re reviewing the paradoxically and yet aptly named Teenage Cave Man (1958), the story of a 30-something teenage rebel who dares to break the rules and explore beyond his Stone Age tribe’s borders – and discovers a shocking twist!! 🧪🏺 youtu.be/ktHzfX7qusQ
Episode 117: Teenage Cave Man (1958) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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On today's episode we've invited Dr. Carlton Shield Chief Gover from the Great Plains Archaeology Podcast on @archpodnet.bsky.social to review Prey (2022), a prequel to the Predator franchise in which the eponymous alien hunter meets his match on the Great Plains of 1719 youtu.be/VpYvxP3LUGU
Episode 115: Prey (2022) with Dr. Carlton Shield Chief Gover | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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We’ve dug too far! We overshot the Stone Age and hit the Dinosaur Age again! Today we’re joined by palaeontologist Joe Wood to review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), the second movie in the Jurassic franchise (and the last good one) 🧪🦖🦕 youtu.be/lL86nyt_yEQ
Episode 115: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Straw poll for archaeologists 🏺: 1) Do you listen to archaeology podcasts? If so, which ones? 2) If you don't listen to archaeology podcasts, what podcasts do you listen to? 3) If you don't listen to archaeology podcasts, what would get you to listen to one?
We're continuing spooky month with a review of The Lost Tribe, aka Primevil (2009), the story of a tribe of Predator-like missing links on a Caribbean island, and the Catholic conspiracy to cover it up 🧪🏺 youtu.be/fHDbUGuGoqY
Episode 114: The Lost Tribe (2009) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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You’ve seen mummies; you’ve seen zombies; but what about a resurrected Iron Age bog body? It's October so we're reviewing scary movies this month! First up is Legend of the Bog (2009), featuring Vinnie Jones and probably the worst written archaeologist we've ever seen 🏺🧪 youtu.be/IALZUy5ZQ3I
Episode 113: Legend of the Bog (2009) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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It's officially October, so we're planning some scary movies for upcoming episodes! We just watched Legend of the Bog (2009), which prompted Ross to plot the decline of Vinnie Jones' IMDB scores over time (this is what happens when scientists watch movies) www.imdb.com/title/tt0928...
Today we're taking a look at Phineas and Ferb, two precocious STEM-minded stepbrothers who fill their summer vacation with gadgets and adventures, including Egyptian movie mummies, dinosaur time-travel capers, and thawed-out cartoon cavemen! youtu.be/3PUlnzomLWo
Episode 112: Phineas and Ferb (2007-) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Ever wonder about the stone-age origins of modern things? Then listen to our latest episode where we're reviewing The Origins Of, a recurring segment on The Armstrong and Miller show in which cavemen behave anachronistically! youtu.be/qFCXXvnZ_vQ 🧪🏺
Episode 111: The Armstrong and Miller Show - The Origins Of... | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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On our latest episode we're reviewing Uncharted (2022) with help from @inside-archaeology.bsky.social. If you're looking for the interactivity of a movie combined with plot of a video game, this movie's for you! 🏺🧪 youtu.be/kg3nlW1WYPM
Episode 110: Uncharted (2022) with Rachel McMullan | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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On our latest podcast episode, we're joined by @archaeobuchanan.bsky.social to review King Arthur (2004), a modern retelling of the ancient myth based on “recently discovered archaeological evidence,” allegedly 🏺🧪 youtu.be/Lz7S8L1sZxE
Episode 109: King Arthur (2004) with Dr. Brian Buchanan | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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Check out our latest podcast episode! @robrownd.bsky.social joins us to review The Dig (2021), the (mostly) true story of the 1939 Sutton Hoo excavation! 🏺 youtu.be/-kwbscdGopY
Episode 108: The Dig (2012) with Rob Rownd | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
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We're back on track and getting ready to post a new episode this weekend - we invited Fredrik from @duancientaliens.bsky.social to review Kon Tiki (2012) with us. It's available on Plex if you want to watch it before the episode drops! watch.plex.tv/movie/kon-ti...
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We're not able to get our regularly scheduled episode up this week, but instead, check out this video we made breaking down the Hollywood caveman stereotype! 🧪🏺 youtu.be/I_jHuLPhF7I
What did Cavemen REALLY look like?
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