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NOVA; Alien From Earth

03/10/2009

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Series

NOVA

Program

Alien From Earth

Program Number

3515

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 presents exclusive coverage of new excavations undertaken in the summer of 2007 at the site of Ling Bua on the island of Flores, Indonesia. These are the first investigations of the cave site since the sensational discovery of tiny and bizarre human fossil bones at the site in 2004. NOVA will investigate the furious scientific debate currently raging over what "Hobbit" bones represent. Are they fossils of a previously unknown primitive branch of the human family? Or are they remains of a dwarf race of modern humans suffering from a strange pathological condition? In HD where available.

Duration

00:56:46

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres

Documentary

Topics

Science

Citation

Chicago: “NOVA; Alien From Earth,” 03/10/2009, GBH Archives, accessed July 26, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EE71DE8CED6646AFB849827AC8049DF7.

MLA: “NOVA; Alien From Earth.” 03/10/2009. GBH Archives. Web. July 26, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EE71DE8CED6646AFB849827AC8049DF7>.

APA: NOVA; Alien From Earth. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EE71DE8CED6646AFB849827AC8049DF7