Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher are precocious STEM-minded stepbrothers trying to make the most of their 104 days of summer vacation. Today we’re reviewing five episodes of this popular Disney Channel series, featuring Egyptian movie mummies, dinosaur time-travel capers, cartoon cave people, and a “corn colossus”, whatever that means.

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Play Caveman Movie Bingo with us! https://bingobaker.com/#681e1d01d32b436e

The University of Alberta’s Egyptian mummy: https://calgary.thessea.org/ct-scans-uofas-egyptian-mummy/

Geological Ages: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/time-scale.htm

The Palaeolithic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic

The African Stone Age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_archaeology

The history of Mirrors: https://longreads.com/2019/07/11/the-ugly-history-of-beautiful-things-mirrors/

Our episode on Timeline (2003): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-56-timeline-2003/

Our episode on Futurama: https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-8-futurama/

Our episode on Iceman (1984): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-3-iceman-1984/

Our episode on the other Iceman (2017): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-4-iceman-2017/

Our episode on Year One (2009): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-12-year-one-2009/

Our episode on Clan of the Cave Bear (1986): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-6-the-clan-of-the-cave-bear-1986/

Our episode on Ironmaster (1983): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-58-ironmaster-1983/

Our episode on Caveman (1981) (the one with Ringo Starr): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-20-caveman-1981/

Our episode on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): https://screensofthestoneage.com/podcast/episode-52-indiana-jones-and-the-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981/

On this episode we’re joined by OG archaeology YouTuber Rachel McMullan of the channel Inside Archaeology to review Uncharted (2022), a movie that explores many diverse settings, none of which are uncharted. It’s a movie that defies physics, and logic, and sense, and yet somehow feels like a bland rehash of other movies we’ve covered.

Inside Archaeology on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Inside_Archaeology

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The Uncharted video game franchise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Uncharted_media

The Magellan Expedition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_expedition

Francis Drake's circumnavigation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake%27s_circumnavigation

Henry Avery/Every: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Every

Uncharted (2018) fan film starring Nathan Fillion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5CZQpqF_74

The Nine-Dash Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line

El Born Centre of Culture and Memory: https://elbornculturaimemoria.barcelona.cat/en/visit/the-center/

Early World Maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps

Ancient Origins on Uncharted: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/uncharted-film-0016862

The San Jose shipwreck in Colombia: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn18xl3j7o

Today we’re joined by Dr. Brian Buchanan to review King Arthur (2004), a modern retelling of the ancient myth based on “recently discovered archaeological evidence,” allegedly. Brain leads us on a journey beyond Hadrian’s Wall and helps us tease apart this movie’s tangled mess of Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Picts, Sarmatians, and more.

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Historicity of King Arthur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_King_Arthur

“Anglo-Saxonism”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxonism_in_the_19th_century

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

Picts: https://www.digitscotland.com/who-were-the-picts/

Hadrian’s Wall: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/hadrians-wall/hadrians-wall-history-and-stories/history/

Rome’s Ninth Legion: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-12752497

Battle of Badon Hill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Badon

Today we’re joined by professor/filmmaker/archaeologist Rob Rownd to review The Dig (2021), a film which tells the (mostly) true story of the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon ship burial excavation of 1939. Find out why we love this movie so much, even though it makes some questionable decisions about the portrayal of real-life archaeologist Peggy Piggot. Check out Rob’s projects:

Sisa: https://deadline.com/2025/01/hilda-koronel-jun-robles-lana-sisa-philippine-american-war-1236252344/

Cinemartyrs: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-film-fatales-fund-indie-film-cinemartyrs--2#/

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Phillips (1940) The excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500009677

The True Story Behind the Dig: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/suffolk/sutton-hoo/digging-the-dirt-at-sutton-hoo-the-true-story-behind-the-dig

The Misrepresentation of Peggy Piggot in “The Dig”: https://theheritagehut.wordpress.com/2021/03/23/the-misrepresentation-of-peggy-piggott-in-the-dig/

Stuart Piggot’s Poetry: https://stuart-piggott-poetry.com/stuart%20and%20peggy.html

Artifacts from Sutton Hoo: https://digventures.com/2021/01/16-brilliant-discoveries-from-the-sutton-hoo-ship-burial/

Cornelius Holtorf (2007) Archaeology is a Brand! https://archive.org/details/archaeologyisbra00holt/mode/2up

Today we’ve invited Fredrik Trusohamn of Digging Up Ancient Aliens to help us review Kon Tiki (2012), the true story of Thor Heyerdahl and his adventure on the Pacific Ocean which proved that Polynesia was settled by explorers from Peru... or did it? In this episode we reveal the dark secrets that movie doesn’t want you to know, and identify what Kon Tiki, Ancient Aliens, and Atlantis all have in common (spoilers: it’s hyperdiffusionism!)

Hear more from Fredrik:

Digging Up Ancient Aliens: https://diggingupancientaliens.com/

DUAA on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@digging_up_ancient_alien

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Watch Kon Tiki (2012) on Plex: https://watch.plex.tv/movie/kon-tiki-2012

Watch Kon Tiki (1950) (the documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvBYfba8nv8

Read The Kon Tiki Expedition (1950) by Thor Heyerdahl: https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.524366/

Read American Indians In The Pacific (1952) by Thor Heyerdahl: https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.505573/

Why do waves come in sets? https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/why-do-waves-come-in-sets

Victor Melander (2019) David’s Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Reception of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki Theory’: https://archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.5334/bha-612

Alexander Ioannidis et al. (2020) Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2

Hōkūleʻa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dk%C5%ABle%CA%BBa

Czech archaeologists trace ancient sea routes in Neolithic dugout replica: https://english.radio.cz/monoxylon-iii-czech-archaeologists-trace-ancient-sea-routes-neolithic-dugout-8130367

Sarmatian log boat (monoxylon) at Novi Sad Museum: https://europebetweeneastandwest.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/how-will-we-be-forgotten-petrovaradin-of-sarmatians-monoxylon-a-balkan-affair-30/

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are not able to post our regularly scheduled episode today, but in its place we'd like to share a YouTube video Josh made for the ComSciCon Canada conference! You can find it at the following link: https://youtu.be/I_jHuLPhF7I

Please check it out, and leave us a comment letting us know what you think!

ComSciCon Canada: https://www.comsciconcanada.org/

Today we’re reviewing Sasquatch Sunset (2024), the story of a family of Bigfoots searching in vain for more of their own kind while coming to terms with a new threat to their survival: humans. It’s a beautiful, powerful film about grief, uncertainty, perseverance, hope, and poop. Lots of poop.

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Ross’ yeti paper: Edwards & Barnett (2015). Himalayan ‘yeti’ DNA: Polar bear or DNA degradation? A comment on ‘Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti’ by Sykes et al.(2014): https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1712

Sasquatch Birth Journal 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVTw2w6MiFw

Riley Keough – Creatures of Nature – grunt version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlueLd7Kqo

Number sense in animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sense_in_animals

The Patterson Gimlin film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q60mSMmhTZU

Wild chimps play with dolls: https://www.npr.org/2010/12/21/132231422/wild-chimps-may-play-dolls

Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) - drowning scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W3sZedBfIM

Bigfoot behaviour: https://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_FAQ.asp?id=587

Why do chimps throw poop? https://www.livescience.com/66042-why-chimps-throw-poop.html

Bowland et al. (2025). The evolutionary ecology of ethanol: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.005

Did ‘shrooms send Santa and his reindeer flying? https://www.npr.org/2010/12/24/132260025/did-shrooms-send-santa-and-his-reindeer-flying