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5->''"Realize I’m living in the Stone Age\
6No fax, no cellular phone age\
7Pick my teeth with a dinosaur bone age\
8Liftin’ heavy boulders every day for my wage"''
9-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', "[[Music/{{Alapalooza}} Bedrock Anthem]]"
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11Stonepunk is a SubGenre of the PunkPunk science fiction genre. Stonepunk focuses on pre-technological developments in prehistoric times, its juxtapositions of the modern world with the primitive, and the effects of an early form of "advanced" technology on society, like ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', based on primitive materials such as rock, fire, clay, rope, wood and water. Unlike most classic CyberPunk or SteamPunk influenced fiction like ClockPunk, the Stone Age supplies the inspiration behind a modified form of technology based on the materials provided by the natural elements and surrounding environment. BambooTechnology is common. Depending on the setting, there may be SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology as well. This is the most likely PunkPunk to be PlayedForLaughs, given its most famous examples.
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13The defining feature of Stone Punk is the representation of modern inventions and technology but made with primitive materials, making the prehistoric setting a PurelyAestheticEra. The idea here is that (for instance) road signs and furnishings would not have existed, but as a RuleOfFunny and in order to further highlight the primary societal differences they have been included. Having the familiar aspects can make the foreign aspects seem even more foreign to the audience, which is used as a method of storytelling as a sort of constant reminder that "this work is set in a completely different world".
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15See also CavemanMedia and HollywoodPrehistory.
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17!!Examples:
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22[[folder:Anime And Manga]]
23* ''Manga/DrStone'' falls into this setting due to its premise of OmnidisciplinaryScientist Senku waking up in a world with Stone Age technology. The existing society already has the Stone; Senku creates the Punk by helping to raise their living standards, bit by bit, until it's reached the 21st century life he's used to. These Stone Age people still wear loincloths, live in straw and wooden huts, and think Senku's achievements are [[ClarkesThirdLaw magic]], but through his efforts, they now have access to eyeglasses, firearms, chemical weapons, electrical lighting, audio playback technology, indoor climate control, telecommunications, motorized transport, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cola]], all of them made from scratch with materials available in the area. That being said, this civilization was already on the verge of becoming this trope when Senku arrived, as one of the villagers, Chrome, thinks like a scientist, was close to some breakthroughs all on his own (such as electricity and pharmaceuticals), and is the only villager who can consistently keep up with Senku's explanations.
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26[[folder:Comic Books]]
27* ''ComicBook/TheFlintstones'' takes the setting of the animated series and uses it to satirize modern society. Many technologies are animal-based, like a small elephant serving as a vacuum cleaner.
28* Played with in ''ComicBook/TheGoddamned''. The story is set 16 centuries after Adam and Eve's exile from Eden and before The Great Flood, and the most advanced tech we ever see are iron weapons and wheeled caravans, though Cain's recognition of these advancements imply that they are rediscovered and reinvented as civilizations rise and fall.
29* ''{{ComicBook/Rahan}}'' The main character invents various technologies when needed.
30%%* ''ComicBook/HermanHedning''
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33[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
34* ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' sees the protagonist begin developing advanced Stone Punk, only for her father to admonish her for trying to violate tradition. This conflict continues until the end of the film.
35* ''WesternAnimation/EarlyMan'' is about a Stone Age British tribe invaded by an Bronze Age civilisation which is obsessed with football.
36%%* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' (since ''Ice Age 2: The Meltdown'')
37%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheMissingLink''
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40[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
41%%* ''Film/TenThousandBC''
42%%* ''Film/{{Caveman}}''
43* ''Film/TheFlintstones'' and ''Film/TheFlintstonesInVivaRockVegas'' are set in the same modern-day version of the Stone Age as the cartoon.
44* ''Film/{{Noah}}'' may be the first example of "Bible punk". In contrast to the agrarian Noah, the descendants of Cain form a pseudo-industrial society that ravages the Earth, all before the invention of writing.
45%%* ''Film/ThePeopleThatTimeForgot''
46%%* ''Film/PrehistoricWomen''
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49[[folder:Literature]]
50%%* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'', the Jean M. Auel series that includes ''Literature/ClanOfTheCaveBear''.
51%%* [[https://setinstonestory.wordpress.com/other-web-fiction/= Set in Stone]]
52* ''Literature/TheWayThingsWork'' explains how real machines work by recasting them as stone punk versions.
53%%* ''Literature/WestOfEden''
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56[[folder:Live Action TV]]
57* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': While set in contemporary time, the available materials to the castaways was bamboo and coconuts, leaving them with this level of technology.
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60%%[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
61%% * ''Comicstrip/{{BC}}''
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64[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
65* The ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' online magazine ''Pyramid'' vol 2 had an article called "[[http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=5146 Stonepunk]]", set in a society with [[TechLevels TL 0+8]] technology, although cutting edge "nantotech" (having items disassembled and reassembled by trained ants) is early TL 0+9.
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68[[folder:Toys]]
69* The Imaginext franchise from ''Creator/FisherPrice'' had several prehistoric-themed sets complete with BambooTechnology, bone architecture, battle-ready cavemen, and various dinosaurs and ice-age mammals that were often mounted as cavalry by said cavemen.
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72[[folder:Video Games]]
73%%* ''VideoGame/{{Antegods}}''
74%%* ''VideoGame/{{Bonk}}''
75* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'''s prehistoric world has humans and sapient dinosaurs coexisting (not at all peacefully), with the humans somehow contriving to have gear that's more advanced than the stuff from the far-off future (including robot parts and ''guns'') while the dinosaurs have a medieval-ish castle with remote-opened doors.
76* ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'' has two enemy tribes of the Wenja, the brutish CannibalTribe known as the Udam and the HumanSacrifice-practicing Izila. The Udam can manufacture hallucinogenic poison bombs, and the Izila have fire bombs, fortresses, and a farming system. PlayerCharacter Takkar captures one Udam and one Izila to learn how to make their weapons and arm his tribe.
77%%* ''VideoGame/JoeAndMac''
78* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' plays with this a bit. The actual level of technology is somewhere between SandalPunk and SteamPunk, but a large portion of it is made of wood and the parts of the Monsters you hunt throughout the games.
79* ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'' has the third episode, "[[Recap/SlyCooperThievesInTimeMission03ClanOfTheCaveRaccoon Clan of the Cave Raccoon]]". Sly and the gang travel to the Stone Age after crashing the van along with the time machine. They then meet Sly's prehistoric ancestor, the first known Cooper in history and the greatest thief of the Ice Age.
80* The Land of the Cragnons in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' is firmly in this trope, in which the Cragnons live in stone dwellings, dress in loincloths, and fight wooly mammoths with clubs, while their technology is at least advanced enough to have RealityTelevision.
81* ''VideoGame/WarParty'' has a trio of stone age tribes using tech influenced by a long lost ancient civilization. One tribe even makes use of mechanical arms and golems.
82* ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'' and it's sequel are set in a prehistoric [[spoiler: actually post-apocalyptic]] society where weapons and houses are made out of bone and stone, the only culture is built around MightMakesRight, no written language exists, and any attempts to establish laws and civilization are met with hostile resistance. ''VideoGame/ClashArtifactsOfChaos'', set in the same universe, is an even ''more'' primitive take on the setting.
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85[[folder:Web Animation]]
86* ''WebAnimation/StoneTrek'' is a fan-made mashup of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''. SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology, given they have ''Faster Than Light Spaceflight'' with stone age tech.
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89[[folder:Western Animation]]
90%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cro}}''
91* ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'' follows the example of the film and sees the main cast survive harsh, prehistoric lands thanks to the protagonist's knack for technology.
92** ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsFamilyTree'' is set after the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'' and has many of the same trappings as the movie.
93* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinotrux}}'', At least for the first handful of seasons as [[SchizoTech the fact that the creatures building this stone punk technology are themselves highly advanced robotic lifeforms]], they are able to advance their level of technical sophistication quite rapidly.
94* ''WesternAnimation/Eureka2022'': The title character is a young cavegirl inventor which lives in ''Flintstones''-esque society that has dinosaurs living alongside cavepeople and other Cenozoic creatures.
95* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' is [[TropeCodifier probably the most famous instance of the trope]], with cavepeople living like modern-day Americans and using dinosaur-based versions of everyday technology.
96%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids''
97%%* Dinosaur World in ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld''
98* The episode "Ugh" in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' features Spongebob and co. as cavemen in a prehistoric version of Bikini Bottom.[[/index]]
99* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''[[index]] did something similar to ''Spongebob'' in the episode "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTriStoneArea Tri-Stone Area]]", which places the cast in a ''Flintstones''-esque society.
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