Movies, books, shows set in during the Stone or Iron Age

[Mistwell]

Gilgamesh!

I even have an old 1e module set in a Gilgamesh adventure...somwhere.

 

[tecnowraith]

What about Frank Frazetta and Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice?

 

[Mark]

Clan of the Cave Bear

Jean M. Auel has five novels set in prehistory in her Earth's Children series. It is an "epic of life 35,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the Earth. It follows the story of Ayla (a Cro-Magnon), who is adopted by a group of Neanderthals." These meaty tomes are rich in descriptive passages of imagined ice age life. Auel is often praised for the depth of her research of the period and her gripping storytelling-ability.

1. The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980)

2. The Valley of Horses (1982)

3. The Mammoth Hunters (1985)

4. The Plains of Passage (1990)

5. The Shelters of Stone (2002)

Most can be found in used bookstores in paperback.

 

[Huw]

Gilgamesh!

I even have an old 1e module set in a Gilgamesh adventure...somwhere.

RoleAids Wizards?

I ran that. It worked out very well.

 

[sniffles]

Matthew Woodring Stover's novels Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon are set in the late Bronze Age/ early Iron Age, just after the Trojan war.

Somebody has an RPG setting for the Bronze Age in the ENworld store - I remember critiquing his cover art several months ago. But I don't recall the name of the product.

Oh, and this doesn't quite fit your criteria, but there's a graphic novel series set during the Trojan War. It's Age of Bronze, by Eric Shanower.

 

[Mistwell]

RoleAids Wizards?

I ran that. It worked out very well.

Yeah, I think that is it. It's listed as including:

Lythande of the Thieves` World by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Aahz and Skeeve from the Myth series by Robert Lynn Aspirin.
S. Carolinus from The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson
Shadowjack from Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny
Morgan LeFay by Lynn Abbey
Merlin of King Arthur`s Court
Circe, the Sorceress of Odysseus
Gilgamesh, the first of the great Sorcerers

I think I bought it for the Robert Aspirin stuff and ended up liking just about everything in the book.

 

[Huw]

Yeah, I think that is it. It's listed as including:

That's definitely the one.

 

[WmRAllen67]

Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time and its sequels transport the Island of Nantucket back to the European Bronze Age era, and has some interesting takes on the various cultures there...

Turtledove, & al, compiled some short stories of Bronze Age heroes (The First Heroes)...

There was an article long ago in Dragon Magazine about adventuring in the Stone Age, and some articles with Age of Mammals prehistoric beasts, though they'll all be 1st or 2nd edition rules...

That's all that comes to mind right off that hasn't been mentioned yet...

 

[DreadPirateMurphy]

How about The Ten Commandments?

I have to agree that The Clan of the Cave Bear series is probably the best reference for the time period in question -- at least in terms of an approximation.

 

[tecnowraith]

Any before the Egyptian (Cleopatra or Tut)/Roman/Greek discoveries?