Episode 58: Ironmaster (1983)

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. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: 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/