>  This must be the movie with the biggest amount of anachronisms I have 
> ever
> seen. It feels like they were deliberately trying to put as many 
> anachronism
> as they could in the movie, plus other inaccuracies. Artistic license is
> understandable, but there are some limits to willing suspension of 
> disbelief.

Just to be fair, I have to point out that there are quite a few
popular counter-culture examples of the current understanding of
pre-history being wrong.

I haven't seen the movie, but I understand it loosely follows
Graham Hancock's theories about pre-history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock

Autopsies on frozen mammoths often find vegetation they ate was
not typical of the current climate.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i3/mammoth.asp

Rain weathering marks on embankments near the sphinx
are suggested by some to place the dating near 10000 BC.
http://www.robertschoch.com/Sphinx_Geology.html

The largest early Greek ships are known to have been in excess of 200 feet 
long.
http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/ships/ancient_greek_ships/index.shtml

Some early Egyptian mummies (1000 BC) have large amounts of
cocaine and nicotine in them, both coca and tobacco are commonly
thought to have been traded from the Americas only after Columbus.
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm

Corn is depicted in Ming dynasty Chinese art. (1368 AD)
http://yakushi.pharm.or.jp/FULL_TEXT/125_7/pdf/583.pdf

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