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Films & Shows Set during Paleolithic

Runs from3,000,000 BCE10,000 BCE2,990,000 years wide

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Pre-History

The Paleolithic or Old Stone Age marks the longest span of human history, stretching from the first known use of stone tools by human ancestors until some 12,000 years ago and the dawn of the Neolithic. The emergence of sedentary, agriculturally-based societies is the traditional terminus of the period.

7
titles
7 films
5.0/5
average saltiness
Enough to salt Carthage
2.9/5
average rating
across 7 rated titles
78%
of the span is tagged
7 of 9 titles set inside it

See Paleolithic on the timelineEvery year from 3,000,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of Paleolithic in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during Paleolithic, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen
One Million Years B.C.1966
Most recent
Out of Darkness2024

FilmsSeriesAt the archive’s paceeach bar is the titles released that decade

The median title about Paleolithic came out in 2008; the median across the rest of the archive, in 2004, so this period’s titles run 4 years later.

The gold dashes are how many of this period’s 7 titles each decade would hold if they had been released at the same pace as the other 284 dated titles in the archive. That measures the archive’s own collecting, not the world’s film output, and at these sizes one title moves a bar by a whole step.

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Period

How the titles fall, 1 (faithful) to 5 (a work of imagination). A period average alone would read the same for one the record is bent evenly across and one with a single wild outlier. A series is placed by its own average, rounded.

  1. 1A grain of salt0
  2. 2A pinch of salt0
  3. 3A shaker of salt0
  4. 4A bag of salt0
  5. 5Enough to salt Carthage1

6 titles in the archive have no score yet and are left out of the average above — unrated is not a verdict of accurate.

Archive Density

78%7 of the 9 titles the archive sets between 3,000,000 BCE and 10,000 BCE carry the Paleolithic tag.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

  1. 3,000,000 BCE0 of 1
  2. 1,000,000 BCE1 of 2
  3. 125,000 BCEnothing set here
  4. 78,000 BCE1 of 1
  5. 43,000 BCE1 of 1
  6. 40,000 BCE1 of 1
  7. 35,000 BCEnothing set here
  8. 28,000 BCE1 of 1
  9. 25,000 BCEnothing set here
  10. 18,000 BCE1 of 1
  11. 10,000 BCE1 of 1

11 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 3 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

Share of the 18 genre taggings across 7 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Credits

Directors

1Albert Hughes1 title3.0/5unsalted2Andrew Cumming1 title2.8/5unsalted3Don Chaffey1 title2.9/54Jacques Malaterre1 title3.1/5unsalted5Jean-Jacques Annaud1 title3.5/5unsalted6Michael Chapman1 title2.7/5unsalted7Roland Emmerich1 title2.1/5unsalted

Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

What the Record Corrects

1 claim answered for, across 1 title set during Paleolithic. A citation is attached to a specific assertion inside a review rather than to the review as a whole, so each line below is one thing the archive says a title got wrong or right, and what answers for it. Following a claim lands on it in that review’s own sources.

  1. Homo Erectus first emerged around 2 million years ago and is known for being the first hominin to migrate out of Africa, with some populations surviving to potentially as recently as 120,000 years ago

    Peter Bellwood, The Five Million Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture (Princeton University Press, 2022).

    One Million Years B.C.Film · 1966

The whole Book of Citations

Also on the Timeline

Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
ConcurrentHuman Evolution3,000,000 BCE–125,000 BCE3,000,000 BCE–125,000 BCEnone shared3
AfterChalcolithic3500 BCE–2300 BCE6,500 years laternone shared1