Comments on: Birmingham’s Smoking Dinosaurs http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/08/birminghams-smoking-dinosaurs/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: BJ Nicholls http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/08/birminghams-smoking-dinosaurs/comment-page-1/#comment-6876 BJ Nicholls Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:16:05 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=8319#comment-6876 "The Fearsome days of the Stone Age and Bronze Age, when Monsters Roamed the Neighbourhood" – apparently the Bronze Age monsters were the white-bearded blue-robed guys about to do something nefarious with the captive maiden. I wonder where the cavemen and dinosaurs meme really started? The Alley Oop comic strip was syndicated in 1932. I wonder if Hollywood or some other popular medium got the notion out before then. “The Fearsome days of the Stone Age and Bronze Age, when Monsters Roamed the Neighbourhood” – apparently the Bronze Age monsters were the white-bearded blue-robed guys about to do something nefarious with the captive maiden.

I wonder where the cavemen and dinosaurs meme really started? The Alley Oop comic strip was syndicated in 1932. I wonder if Hollywood or some other popular medium got the notion out before then.

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