The podcast where scientists review movies about prehistoric people! From The Flintstones to The Croods, from Iceman to Encino Man, from Year One to One Million Years BC, we dig into popular movies about the ancient past and sift the facts from the fiction. Hosts with expertise in archaeology, paleoanthropology, human evolution, paleontology, and paleogenetics take you behind the scenes to learn the truth about cave people like Neanderthals and Cro Magnons, and Pleistocene Megafauna like woolly mammoths and sabretooth cats. Plus, history movies, science fiction, pseudoarchaeology, and dinosaurs!
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Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett
On this episode we ventured out into the real world and shelled out the equivalent of a down payment on a small car to see The End of Oak Street (2026) in theatres. And guess what? Feathered dinosaurs! We’re so thrilled about that that we let some of the minor things slide, like the outdated JP3-style Spinosaurus... and the shaggy sauropods... and the mix of Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and even Pleistocene taxa... But we have to draw the line at Ewan McGregor’s American accent.
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Dinopedia’s list of dinosaurs: https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/The_End_of_Oak_Street
Riley Black’s list of dinosaurs on Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2026/08/end-of-oak-street-movie-dinosaurs-reviews-allosaurus-titanoboa.html
Screenrant’s list of Dinosaurs: https://screenrant.com/the-end-of-oak-street-movie-dinosaur-species/
CBC’s guide to dino sex: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/end-of-oak-street-dinosaur-sex-9.7314428
Blue Smarties were introduced in 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties#Colours_and_flavours
Blue M&Ms were introduced in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s#1990s:_New_flavors_ring
Blue Froot Loops were introduced in 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froot_Loops#History
Canadian/UK Smarties vs. American Smarties: https://www.thecanadafoods.com/blog/canadian-smarties-vs-american-smarties-whats-the-difference
Spinosaur Tales (2026) by Dave Hone and Mark Witton: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/spinosaur-tales-9781399412469/
Dinosaur milk – Quirks and quarks
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/summer-question-show-9.7250132
Split diopter shot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6HkQvH5QvM
27 Sept 2026
Episode 138: Stig of the Dump (2002)
Today we’re reviewing... *checks notes* ... Stig of the Dump, again? That’s right, we’re reviewing the 2002 remake! It’s surprising how much has changed in 20 years: the family dynamic shifted from latchkey kids to helicopter grandparents; the thieves are leaving the fine silver in favour of Dreamcast consoles; and Stig himself has devolved from a clever Neolithic boy to an apelike “Stiganopithecus.”
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Watch Stig of the Dump (2002) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEHSzfpwCzQ
Listen to the audiobook on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GweIzXKvc3Y
List of Greek and Latin roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English
Australopithecus species: https://www.johnhawks.net/p/guide-to-australopithecus-species
Denisovan leg bones from Taiwan reveal large body size: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.07.743438
Our episode on Neander-Jin (2011): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-25-neander-jin-2011/
Our episode on As Above, So Below (2014): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-89-as-above-so-below-2014/
13 Sept 2026
Episode 137: Stig of the Dump (1981)
Stig of the Dump is a 1963 children’s novel by Clive King which spawned at least two TV adaptations; today we’re reviewing the first, from 1981. It’s a very gentle, very British show in which a neglected child befriends a caveman in a garbage dump and everyone else gaslights him for 10 episodes.
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Watch Stig of the Dump (1981) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzpHCBSQN-A&list=PLohd5UVV10lz2NuSBh2YuPyjoxewQNi8p
Listen to the audiobook of Stig of the Dump on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GweIzXKvc3Y
Sherbet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbet_(frozen_dessert)
Conkers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers
Larder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larder
Prize-Giving Day: https://www.gauthmath.com/knowledge/What-is-a-Prize-Giving-Day--7389728173675511819
Star Carr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Carr
The Tucson Garbage Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson_Garbage_Project
Wierer et al. (2018) The Iceman’s lithic toolkit: Raw material, technology, typology and use: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198292
Our episode on Iceman (2017): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-4-iceman-2017/
Harris. (2018) Roll Me a Great Stone: A Brief Historiography of Megalithic Construction and the Genesis of the Roller Hypothesis: https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12142
Kits Coty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit%27s_Coty_House
Dolmen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen
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