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12,000 years ago in what will someday become the neighborhood of Encino in Los Angeles, California, a distant ancestor of the local Tongva people must defend himself from hungry dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus)!

This was inspired by a revisiting of the 1992 teen comedy Encino Man, which is about a couple of high school seniors accidentally uncovering a frozen prehistoric man (played by a young Brendan Fraser), thawing him back to life, and teaching him to adapt to modern life. As much as Fraser’s performance is one of the film’s highlights (along with the other characters’ colorful if not always decipherable early 90’s vocabulary), it must be admitted that anyone living in Encino during the Pleistocene would not have looked like him. More likely, they’d be related to local indigenous groups like the Tongva and Chumash.

Description

12,000 years ago in what will someday become the neighborhood of Encino in Los Angeles, California, a distant ancestor of the local Tongva people must defend himself from hungry dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus)!

This was inspired by a revisiting of the 1992 teen comedy Encino Man, which is about a couple of high school seniors accidentally uncovering a frozen prehistoric man (played by a young Brendan Fraser), thawing him back to life, and teaching him to adapt to modern life. As much as Fraser’s performance is one of the film’s highlights (along with the other characters’ colorful if not always decipherable early 90’s vocabulary), it must be admitted that anyone living in Encino during the Pleistocene would not have looked like him. More likely, they’d be related to local indigenous groups like the Tongva and Chumash.