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NOVA; Search For The Lost Cave People
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- Series
- NOVA
- Program
- Search For The Lost Cave People
- Program Number
2507
- Series Description
Premiered March 1974 NOVA is a general-interest documentary series that addresses a single science issue each week. Billed as "science adventures for curious grown-ups" when it first aired in March, 1974, NOVA continues to offer an informative and entertaining approach to a challenging subject. 1996 marked NOVA's 23rd season, which makes it the longest-running science program on national television. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over. Series release date: 3/3/1974
- Program Description
NOVA follows an international team of archaeologists and spelunkers into the Rio la Venta Gorge deep in the Chiapas jungle of Central America. In a rugged canyon they find caves filled with the startling remains of a people called the Zoque who lived hundreds of years before the Maya. The extreme inaccessibility and relative dryness of the caves has preserved rare artifacts, including bones, clothes, rope and jewelry. Moving downstream from the caves the team finds a legendary city hidden in a tangle of jungle vines. Evidence of the Zoque's sophisticated writing system and their practice of ritualistic cannibalism and child sacrifice is shedding new light on a little known civilization.
- Duration
00:56:46
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Science
- Citation
- Chicago: “NOVA; Search For The Lost Cave People,” GBH Archives, accessed October 4, 2023, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_04198D1558BC452CB41F9110016153CD.
- MLA: “NOVA; Search For The Lost Cave People.” GBH Archives. Web. October 4, 2023. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_04198D1558BC452CB41F9110016153CD>.
- APA: NOVA; Search For The Lost Cave People. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_04198D1558BC452CB41F9110016153CD