Screens of the Stone Age

Today we’re watching Eegah (1962), the story of a filmmaker nearly bankrupting himself to finance a vehicle for his nepo baby son’s music career. Oh, and there’s a caveman… or a biblical giant. It’s …

On this episode we’re reviewing the quintessential archaeology movie: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). We had to get to it eventually, even though there isn’t really any archaeo…

Today we’re reviewing Time Trap (2017), a movie that features an archaeologist, his students, cavemen, hippies, cowboys, spacemen, Spanish conquistadors, Native Americans, and children, for some reas…

Today we’ve reached a milestone: 50 episodes! To celebrate, we’re looking back on every movie we’ve watched and giving each one a definitive rating, tier-list style. If you’re a regular listener, you…

On this episode, Dr. Predrag (Pedja) Radović joins us to talk about The Man from Earth (2007), the story of an academic who tries to convince his colleagues that he is 14,000 years old. This low bud…

Prof. Mirjana Roksandic joins us again, this time to discuss an episode of Bones. We’re watching the Season 8 episode The Archaeologist in the Cocoon, in which the eponymous forensic anthropologist …

In this episode Dr. Andrew Kinkella joins us to discuss 2012 (2009), a summer blockbuster from Roland Emmerich based on Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods and a misunderstanding of the Mayan c…

The People that Time Forgot (1977) answers the question: what if Star Wars had dinosaurs? and was also terrible? This is the sequel to 1974’s The Land that Time Forgot. The original had some thoughtf…

A.R.O.G (2008), the sequel to G.O.R.A (2004), is the story of a Turkish rug salesman who is sent a million years back in time by an old intergalactic foe, and must help his newfound stone-age friends…

We’re diving into the depths of pseudoarchaeology this week with Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). Ross is away but we’re joined by Fredrik Trusohamn, host of Digging Up Ancient Aliens, who …

Horror Express (1972) tells the tale of an anthropologist who discovers a frozen hominin in China which, unbeknownst to him, is possessed by a telepathic extraterrestrial life form. It’s basically Th…

To kick of 2023 we’re reviewing Troll (2022), a Norwegian movie in which the government enlists the help of a paleontologist to stop a rampaging troll. We dig into mythology, tooth ontogeny, and sexu…

This holiday season we’re traveling back to the town of Bedrock for A Flintstone Christmas (1977), a slapdash holiday special featuring everyone’s favourite modern Stone Age family. In this episode w…

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) is the story of a badass woman archaeologist from Belle Époque France. Well, she’s really more of a journalist and grave robber, misappropriatin…

Ammonite (2020) is a fictional historical love story based on the lives of two real Victorian paleontologists, Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison. Kim has a bee in her bonnet about this movie: too m…

Mammoth (2006) is a made-for-TV Sci-Fi Channel original in which a frozen mammoth becomes possessed by an extraterrestrial being, and the Men in Black enlist the help of a local paleontologist to sav…

Today we’re getting into the Halloween spirit with The Thaw (2009), a climate change horror movie in which a parasitic plague is unleashed from a thawed mammoth. In this episode we talk climate chang…

We’re getting into the spooky season with Trog (1970), a British horror movie about a thawed caveman who goes on a murderous rampage, and an anthropologist who wants to study him for reasons which a…

Inherit the Wind (1960) is a fictional retelling of the Scopes “Monkey” Trail of 1925, the seminal case which pitted science vs. religion. Turns out the movie is actually a parable for McCarthyism, a…

Today we’re reviewing the most problematic movie we’ll ever recommend you watch (but only once, and then never again): Skullduggery (1970) stars Burt Reynolds as a charismatic misogynistic capitalist…