Cavemen S1E9 Caveman Holiday - Screens 118

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!

Links

• Watch Cavemen S01E09 Caveman Holiday on YouTube

• Listen to our review of Cavemen S01E01

• Neanderthal diet

• Weyrich et al. (2017). Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus

• Richards and Trinkaus (2009). Isotopic evidence for the diets of European Neanderthals and early modern humans

• Beasley et al. (2025). Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes

• Fellows Yates et al. (2021). The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome

• Adler et al. (2017). Evolution of the Oral Microbiome and Dental Caries

• Phytoliths

• 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

• Solstice

• Analemma

• Crazy Ancient Greek planet math

• The Antikythera Mechanism – Pseudoarchaeology Podcast

• Beef fizz

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