isolated prehistoric land theme
There is a geographical region, or location of significant size, which is remote and isolated to such an extent that many features from prehistoric times are still extant in present time.
Notes
"Prehistoric" indicates time from before there were written records. These fictional lands may for example contain cave men form the Stone Age, Neanderthals, woolly mammoths, and dinosaurs.
Examples
In futurama7x08 "Fun on a Bun", Fry falls through a hole in a glacier into a land filled with mammoths and Neanderthals. This land had been shut off from the rest of the world by the ice since around the time Homo sapiens first emerged and replaced Neanderthals.
22 total · 4 choice · 16 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Return to the Lost World (1992) | choice | A group of explorers returned to a remote African plateau where dinosaurs still roamed. |
| movie: The Lost World (1925) | choice | An expedition to South America discovered a plateau where dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures still roamed the Earth. |
| movie: The Lost World (1960) | choice | An expedition team to a plateau in Venezuela discovered dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and giant spiders. |
| movie: The Lost World (1992) | choice | A party of six explorers found a secluded region of Central Africa where dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. |
| futurama7x08 | major | Fry found himself prehistoric valley populated by Neanderthals. |
| movie: King Kong (1933) | major | Skull Island was home to King Kong along with various dinosaurs. |
| movie: King Kong Escapes (1967) | major | Mondo Island was full of prehistoric creatures, including King Kong and some dinosaurs. |
| movie: Lost Continent (1951) | major | An expedition sent to the South Pacific discovers a lost jungle world populated by prehistoric dinosaurs. |
| movie: Planet of Dinosaurs (1977) | major | A crew became spaceship wrecked on a distant planet with similar conditions to prehistoric Earth. |
| movie: Planeta Bur (1962) | major | Venus was discovered to be a prehistoric world, complete with dinosaurs. |