Episode 58: Ironmaster (1983)
Screens of the Stone Age
English - August 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFilm Reviews TV & Film Science Natural Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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Who is Sam Pasco and why is nobody talking about him? https://fred-andersson.medium.com/who-is-sam-pasco-and-why-is-nobody-talking-about-him-27448be38610
Seriously, check out this movie poster (nsfw): https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/xuRG2gSnEdqj6Sqsai3z8kujrmP.jpg
Custer State Park, South Dakota: https://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/parks-monuments/custer-state-park
King Tut’s meteorite dagger: https://www.livescience.com/61214-king-tut-dagger-outer-space.html
The Cape York meteorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_meteorite
Telluric (Native) iron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluric_iron
Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177127
Pallasite meteorites look otherworldly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallasite
Syphilis and leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in archaeology: https://emberarchaeology.ca/infectious-diseases-in-the-archaeological-record/
History of the bow and arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_and_arrow#History
How to shoot a bow and arrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGIASAOoa0
Thanks to Duncan for confirmation of UofA’s Egyptian Mummy! https://sites.ualberta.ca/~publicas/folio/35/18/10.HTM
X-Rays and CT scans of the University of Alberta’s Egyptian Mummy: https://calgary.thessea.org/ct-scans-uofas-egyptian-mummy/