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Ghost Canyon

'NOVA: The First Face of America'
(DVD / PG / 2018 / PBS)

Overview: 'NOVA: The First Face of America' takes a risky dive into an underwater cave in Mexico to discover the 13,000 year-old skeleton of a prehistoric teenager.

DVD Verdict: Here in this wondrous new PBS NOVA documentary, we follow forensic clues that reveal intimate details of her life and death, and how her people first ventured into North America.

On an unlucky day 13,000 years ago, a slightly built, malnourished teenager (dubbed Naia) missed her footing and tumbled to the bottom of a 100-foot pit deep inside a cave in Mexico's Yucatan.

Rising seas flooded the cave and, until recently, cut it off from the outside world. Then a team of divers chanced upon her nearly complete and astonishingly well-preserved skeleton alongside fossils of extinct Ice Age beasts such as giant sloths and saber-tooth tigers.

NOVA takes you on a spectacular and risky underwater expedition to recover her bones and explores one of science's most controversial riddles: the origins of the First Americans.

Intricate detective work reveals that the young woman's bones are among the earliest known human remains in the Americas. What drove her to venture nearly a mile underground in the vast cave? Where did her people come from, and why does she look so distinct from today's Native Americans?

The program describes how studies of Naia’s bones (SN: 6/14/14, p. 6) and of genes from an 11,500-year-old infant recently excavated in Alaska have generated fresh insights into how people populated the Americas.

Viewers watch anthropologist and forensic consultant James Chatters, who directed scientific studies of Naia’s remains, as he reconstructs the ancient teen’s face and charts the lower-body injuries that testify to what must have been a rough life.

Knowing what they have to unearth, scientist's describe how thousands of years of soaking in seawater have rendered the precious remains fragile. They use a plaster cast of a human jaw to demonstrate for scuba diver Susan Bird how to handle Naia’s skull so that it stays intact while being placed in a padded box.

From the stunning Mexico cave to the wilderness of the Yukon, from the genetics lab to the latest in forensics, 'NOVA: The First Face of America' pursues tantalizing new clues that are rewriting the story of the forgotten first people who ventured into our continent. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

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