07/12/2022
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Pemaquid Point Learning Center, Pemaquid Point Lighhouse Park
3115 Bristol Road
New Harbor
Event Type
First Face of America NOVA Documentary: 2018, 60 minutes. Admission is FREE.
Thirteen thousand years ago a young teenager fell to her death in a 100 foot deep pit in a cave in Mexico’s Yucatan. Her skeletal remains were hidden by waters that had flooded the cave thousands of years earlier.
Recently, a team of cave divers discovered her complete skeleton along with the fossilized remains of extinct Ice Age animals. NOVA takes you on an exciting but dangerous underwater journey to recover the girl’s remains and better understand the origins of the First Americans. The film explores why she traveled nearly a mile underground in the dark recesses of this massive cave with nothing more than a torch. The team of archaeologists and scientists seek answers to the teenager’s family origins and why her appearance is
so much different from today’s Native Americans.
A 15-20 minute discussion will follow the movie.
