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. Unlike those series, however, this one is live-action! Who knew? Anyway, we talk about a lot of academic papers about Neanderthals, because nothing happens in the episode we watched.

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Watch Korg on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/korg-70-000-bc-s-1ep-01-the-blind-hunter-1974-low-480x-360/Korg+70%2C000+BC+-+S1ep01The+Blind+Hunter1974+%5BLow%2C+480x360%5D.mp4

Cave lions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_spelaea

Caspian tigers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_tiger

Paleoloxodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoloxodon

Phylogenetic trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic_tree

California woodpeckers: https://avibirds.com/woodpeckers-of-california/

UK woodpeckers: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/how-identify/identify-uk-woodpeckers

Shanidar 1: https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/paleoanthropology/shanidar-1-neanderthal-05355.html

Trinkaus et al. (2019) External auditory exostoses among western Eurasian late Middle and Late Pleistocene humans: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220464

Buzi et al. (2025) The first preserved nasal cavity in the human fossil record: The Neanderthal from Altamura: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426309122

Márquez (2008) The paranasal sinuses: The last frontier in craniofacial biology: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.20791

The Invention of Prehistory (2024) by Stefanos Geroulanos: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091455

To kick off the New Year, we’re reviewing The Rap Guide to Evolution, a music album by Baba Brinkman which is... pretty self-explanatory, really. So here’s an hour and 15 minutes of us explaining it! We get into evolutionary psychology, 2000s-era edgelord atheism, postmodernism, genital evolution, and much more!

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Watch The Rap Guide to Evolution on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROgR3nK6ayk&list=PLuHbMGCLLUYZ0pq_mN093hqzn_28SvpVS

Ambulocetus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulocetus

Gol’din and Radović (2018) A Middle Miocene baleen whale from Bele Vode in Belgrade, Serbia: https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/9751

Marković et al. (2025) First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106177

Recapitulation theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory

Out of Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa

Jebel Irhoud: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22335

Apidima: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z

Social constructivism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructivism

Tim Minchin - Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

Science communication and science denial: https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/busting-myths-a-practical-guide-to-countering-science-denial/

Grizzly bear attacks school children in Canada: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz68x1n5qd6o

Evolutionary Psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Pig domestication: https://www.thoughtco.com/the-domestication-of-pigs-170665

Ape testicle size: https://theconversation.com/why-did-humans-evolve-big-penises-but-small-testicles-71652

James Watson dead at 97: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/watson-james-obituary-9.6971457

Happy Longnight! Today is the December Solstice, and to celebrate we’re reviewing a very special holiday episode of 2007 sitcom Cavemen, based on the popular Geico insurance commercials. Everyone is invited, whether we like them or not, so grab a slice of forager’s pie and a glass of Beef Fizz and settle in to listen to your favourite palaeo researchers trying to explain basic astronomy. To the cow!

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Watch Cavemen S01E09 Caveman Holiday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtbPiIMQ2g&list=PL81C5835E560AE6BE&index=26

Listen to our review of Cavemen S01E01: https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-78-cavemen-s01e01-her-embarrassed-of-caveman-2007/

Neanderthal diet: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/neanderthal-diet/

Weyrich et al. (2017). Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21674

Richards and Trinkaus (2009). Isotopic evidence for the diets of European Neanderthals and early modern humans: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903821106

Beasley et al. (2025). Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt7466

Fellows Yates et al. (2021). The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021655118

Adler et al. (2017). Evolution of the Oral Microbiome and Dental Caries: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40496-017-0151-1

Phytoliths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolith

Chinique de Armas et al. (2015). Starch analysis and isotopic evidence of consumption of cultigens among fisher–gatherers in Cuba: the archaeological site of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.03.003

Solstice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice

Analemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma

Crazy Ancient Greek planet math: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle

The Antikythera Mechanism – Pseudoarchaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo/96

Beef fizz: https://vinepair.com/articles/beef-fizz-drink-history/