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/

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

Today we’re joined by filmmaker Maarten Peels to talk about his 2024 short film De Poten van de Bizon (The Bison’s Legs), the story of two friends who go on a dream quest to make a cave painting. Maarten did extensive research in order to avoid the clichéd caveman tropes and make something we’ve never seen before: a plausible and scientifically accurate portrayal of Palaeolithic life. We are absolutely in love with this film, and highly recommend that you pause the episode and go watch it right now!

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Watch The Bison’s Legs on Maarten’s Website: https://www.potenvandebizon.nl/

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Hear more from Maarten on the EXARC Podcast: https://www.exarc.org/exarc-podcast/filming-prehistory-getting-it-right

Experimental archaeologist Diederik Pomstra: https://www.puttinglife.com/blog/the-essential-knowledge-of-a-craftsperson/

Marc Azéma: Animation in Palaeolithic art: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00062785

Chauvet bison painting: https://archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/chauvet/en/mediatheque?page=%2C1

Palaeolithic Thaumatrope: https://archive.org/details/eight-legged-boar-animation/An%20ancient%20spinning%20disk%20%28reconstruction%20shown%29%20found%20in%20what%27s%20now%20southwestern%20France%20may%20have%20been%20a%20children%27s%20toy..jpg

Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television: 581 Dramas, Comedies and Documentaries, 1905–2004

by Michael Klossner (2006) https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/prehistoric-humans-in-film-and-television/

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos (2024): https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091455/