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  • Take a risky dive into an underwater cave in Mexico to discover the 13,000-year-old skeleton of a prehistoric teenager. Follow forensic clues that reveal details of her life and death and how her people first ventured into North America. #PBSAmerica #FirstFaceOfAmerica #Mexico
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Komentáře • 222

  • @georgecuyler7563
    @georgecuyler7563 Před rokem +34

    We Indigenous Turtle Islanders have stories of having to outrun the last ice age. It is said if you didn't move out of its way you froze in place. Here on the west coast of British Columbia we have the story of a great flood and a great whale saved us.

    • @highlightedcomment
      @highlightedcomment Před rokem

      Mediterranean was an empty valley back then, this is not credible. Click bait...

    • @Matt_Wilson01
      @Matt_Wilson01 Před rokem

      LMAO 🤣 fairy tales, none of that is possible sweetheart

    • @unbanned6175
      @unbanned6175 Před rokem +2

      ​@MattyDubbz read between the lines though.

    • @finnmcginn9931
      @finnmcginn9931 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@Matt_Wilson01I'm sure the telephone game doesn't apply with them.....

  • @selievisa519
    @selievisa519 Před rokem +22

    What a superb documentary! This is probably the most emotional discovery I have ever seen. Above all, I am glad that Nyah was rescued with much love and tenderness. Welcome to the modern time of our common home, the Earth. ❤️❤️❤️

  • @dannyb3663
    @dannyb3663 Před rokem +4

    Incredible. Imagine falling to your death in the dark, feeling the futility, never knowing that in tens of thousands of years time, the purpose of your life was to give meaning to your great 'times 1000' descendants.

  • @woodwage7988
    @woodwage7988 Před rokem +36

    Nyah died alone 😥..so glad were respecting her today..certainly young girls like her are why we are hear today..

    • @michellerenner6880
      @michellerenner6880 Před rokem +7

      And now she is a part of the reason we know so much more about her people and her time. .. she’s a special sort of time traveller.

    • @zaizoesclashing7103
      @zaizoesclashing7103 Před rokem +3

      Lol here for the young girls

    • @arvelmcgrego4246
      @arvelmcgrego4246 Před rokem

      She is traumatize because you Rape her you son of a bit*h!

    • @user-io6pj8bz8h
      @user-io6pj8bz8h Před rokem

      Absolutely not, it is because of males. Females just consumed resources and did menial tasks that would have been a waste of men's time. Just like today.

    • @valiantredneck
      @valiantredneck Před rokem

      That makes absolutely no sense.

  • @KayakCampingOffGrid
    @KayakCampingOffGrid Před rokem +9

    Wow.... Just a stunning and fascinating deep dive into the ancient history of Humans in America. Emotional journey of this young Woman and the various important discoveries!

    • @ia8018
      @ia8018 Před rokem

      How do you know it's a woman? According to science, gender is not real. Call them a "young person" instead.

  • @mariatorres5563
    @mariatorres5563 Před rokem +18

    I've seen this video a few times now, i remember watching it years ago & loved it so much..Ill keep watching it for years to come just love PBS & their content....🤯😊😉

    • @SheikhAlladeen
      @SheikhAlladeen Před rokem

      ...l.....-..- Qur'an authored by Muhammad is replete with surahs that are explicitly evil. No God would allow men to have sxx with pre-pubescent children that goes against nature and
      against humanity. czcams.com/video/OfYbUsNMlng/video.html

    • @firmaadministrasjon4748
      @firmaadministrasjon4748 Před rokem

      2222t

  • @kewsiyehboah9514
    @kewsiyehboah9514 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Absolutely Fascinating..
    In Modern Times With So Much Convienece, Spare A Thought For Our Ancestors Who had 2 hunt Continuously..

  • @big1dog23
    @big1dog23 Před rokem +8

    I give more credence to the "kelp highway" than the land bridge for the very first Americans.

  • @certificateofvaccinationi.d.19

    Fascinating guess work

  • @claudelebel49
    @claudelebel49 Před rokem +5

    A very moving story and a sad and difficult ending. That we should be so moved by something that happened so long ago.

  • @woodwage7988
    @woodwage7988 Před rokem +3

    Wow..respect dans tout les domaine..thank you for letting us be a part of this..

  • @joebanda7434
    @joebanda7434 Před rokem +5

    Wow what an awesome show you guys put together, way to go NOVA!

  • @robcv420
    @robcv420 Před rokem +3

    I'm having goosebumps aaall the way. I mean, these are the kind of documentaries I love watching. Gosh, I love exploration and finding something fascinating! I hope you upload more of this, PBS!

  • @elizabethannegrey6285

    Absolutely fascinating. Thank you.

  • @robharding5345
    @robharding5345 Před 3 měsíci

    There I was an hour ago, contemplating on getting myself a bottle of whisky, as I often do on a Saturday night, Then I got watching this fascinating documentary, and I will be watching it again tomorrow, just in case I missed something, Oh" and thanks for saving me 17 Pounds, I could ill afford to spent in the first place. Thank you.

  • @vachikyadegarian1403
    @vachikyadegarian1403 Před rokem

    All I can say is a Big Big Thank You . Brave Naya lives on thanks to all of you.

  • @JohnMusicsTV
    @JohnMusicsTV Před 9 měsíci

    It's so great wonderful for this documentation thanks so mutch guys for your efforts and love and sacrifices

  • @muzwot9603
    @muzwot9603 Před rokem +2

    Great documentary.

  • @elsiet5713
    @elsiet5713 Před rokem +1

    thanks for this video

  • @Rubytuesday1569
    @Rubytuesday1569 Před rokem +1

    Very Interesting, I really enjoyed this. Thoroughly researched, clearly and concisely presented. Thank you.☮️

  • @alanwilkinson9487
    @alanwilkinson9487 Před rokem

    Remarkable a must watch..

  • @gavincarey4782
    @gavincarey4782 Před 9 měsíci

    thankyou very good work

  • @candyb68
    @candyb68 Před rokem

    INCREDIBLE!

  • @pamelaattrux336
    @pamelaattrux336 Před rokem

    That was so interesting

  • @claudelebel49
    @claudelebel49 Před rokem

    Such a moving story,

  • @stephenrafter1022
    @stephenrafter1022 Před rokem +1

    Amazing. I think they found an older skeleton now.

  • @perfriisnielsen3146
    @perfriisnielsen3146 Před rokem

    Thank you for that great movie, and of course i know Eske as a great sience person...

  • @rosapower4549
    @rosapower4549 Před rokem

    AMAZING HUMANS ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @STR41GHTP4th
    @STR41GHTP4th Před rokem

    Good scientific skills. Good video.

  • @colinleat8309
    @colinleat8309 Před rokem

    Wonderfully fascinating! I'm not surprised in the least that she would have strong Asiatic and African features. I love PBS!! ❤️🖖😁🤘

  • @Joseph_Clark07
    @Joseph_Clark07 Před rokem

    im always interested about history and science. And thanks to Nyah was rescued and gave scienest so much to learn from early people but very sad to what happened to her.

  • @tishahouse846
    @tishahouse846 Před rokem

    Listening from the ukwales❤️

  • @tomclewes3783
    @tomclewes3783 Před rokem +9

    So they weren't interested in that big ass bone above where the skull was? 😅

    • @uri0606
      @uri0606 Před rokem

      It was probably a Mastodon, lol. not THAT uncommon.

  • @rawiriwhare7405
    @rawiriwhare7405 Před rokem +2

    Only one human bone structure? That would take a mountain of faith for any cultural species.

  • @gayeinggs5179
    @gayeinggs5179 Před rokem

    Just watching them gives me claustrophobia yuuuuk

  • @kxmalahov
    @kxmalahov Před rokem

    thanks from Scotland, Love from Russia!!!

  • @geofflewis8599
    @geofflewis8599 Před rokem +4

    ..White Sands footprint discoveries - 23,000 ya..

  • @seestheday
    @seestheday Před rokem +3

    It's interesting that they keep referring to her as a child. In this time, this age, when humans probably only lived to their mid-20s, she would have been considered middle aged. She likely had one, or maybe more, children of her own.

    • @jhhggygghchdlfyggxzgdltfugc
      @jhhggygghchdlfyggxzgdltfugc Před rokem +4

      The low average life expectancy was greatly influenced by high infant mortality. Plenty of those who survived infancy would reach their 40s and 50s. A few would reach ages we would recognise as elderly today, depending on the environment they were in and their luck.
      It's also likely humans developed into adulthood slower than today because of dietary constraint. Only populations with access to as much high energy food as they wanted, for minimal cost in time and effort, would develop physically at the accelerated rate of people eating an industrialised diet.

  • @garethjudd5840
    @garethjudd5840 Před rokem +1

    Fun fact. Imagine a sandy beach one mile long that represents earth total history. At one end is the formation of the earth, at the other end is now. Humans have been on this earth the time equivalent of just one grain of sand.

  • @KimJun-jun
    @KimJun-jun Před rokem

    I realized how important water, light, and gps was during the ancient times.

  • @fran7336
    @fran7336 Před rokem

    Very articulate. Reminds me of a young George Galloway.

  • @MrBOOKS007
    @MrBOOKS007 Před rokem +1

    sorry your picture of land bridge wrong . at that time look more like tope going around . plus there was land sea level lot lower in the Pacific. plus lot of wrong about that time and before.

  • @scotishjohn
    @scotishjohn Před rokem

    Wow long time ago😊

  • @johannakadar4314
    @johannakadar4314 Před rokem

    Hmmm as an archeologyst this documentary is amazing 🥰 the onlie thing i liked to add that being deprived of protein is not always and indicator of a new enviroment. Because maybe in winter they cant get their protein they ate less and were malnourished. But ancient archeology is not my specialty but in later ages that is for sure ☺️

  • @warluck1831
    @warluck1831 Před rokem +1

    when I see a bone all I know is that it died. amazing how they can come up with all these stories with only a piece of bone

  • @CONEHEADDK
    @CONEHEADDK Před rokem +1

    "Funny" how much it looks like some of those alledged space walks, where there seems to be a buble in the air or a reflexion of something, that shouldn't be there aso.. Or the space station clips where an astronot is wearing a harness, or just vanishes, as if it was some green screen trickery..

  • @gayeinggs5179
    @gayeinggs5179 Před rokem

    It’s amazing that the lady who originally. Got the bones was unusual that she passed them on to someone else.

  • @whaleshrimp111
    @whaleshrimp111 Před rokem +4

    Nia has a book and exercise video coming out next month.

    • @scottyfox6376
      @scottyfox6376 Před rokem

      New High Protien Caveman Diet book out soon.

    • @reverendbarker650
      @reverendbarker650 Před rokem

      give her the decent chance and she'll be a social media " influencer "

  • @fernandocortes1187
    @fernandocortes1187 Před rokem +1

    4:00 México

  • @earlhobenshield8816
    @earlhobenshield8816 Před rokem +1

    Theories about when people were where are so flawed

  • @meg7915
    @meg7915 Před 3 měsíci

    I'm always suspicious when scientists make blanket statements based on one or a few specimens. The way one person looks doesn't necessarily mean everyone looked like that. Having signs of malnutrition doesn't mean all of the people with her were "new" to the area. It means she was. It also could be another sign of abuse that was identified in other areas of her skeleton.

  • @kentrichardson9070
    @kentrichardson9070 Před rokem

    Would have liked to have seen research on the animal bones. When the documentary started,my first thought was this was a ceremonial cave burial. I don’t think Nyah would have been alone in a dangerous jungle. She could have escaped slavery or been shunned. It almost looked as if rope was needed to enter the cave even 13 centuries ago. Did they not say other human bones were there? I must of missed something. Food for thought.

  • @miaji1963
    @miaji1963 Před rokem +6

    Never say Columbus discovered America

  • @lilacnpink3864
    @lilacnpink3864 Před rokem

    Excellent theory of nia's death.

  • @roshantweerasinghe9866

    Like Sri Lanka Balangoda Man of pre history era.

  • @chriscarson1256
    @chriscarson1256 Před 11 dny

    How long was she there?

  • @adeptiotsolutions3644

    Weird to think we all come from Zimbabwe and South Africa 😄 What are they doing down there?

  • @annychest718
    @annychest718 Před rokem +1

    New world was part of the old world
    before the earth divided

  • @nyahanan
    @nyahanan Před rokem +1

    So the Sibirian tribes are relatives to the Native Americans and they belong to the strong huge Asian family, like Chinese, SouthEast- Asians etc., I welcome the Native Americans to our Asian family!

  • @scottyfox6376
    @scottyfox6376 Před rokem +3

    Science & public opinion can suffer from biases especially from percieved cultural "histories". For example the Maori of New Zealand gets credit of first population but there is evidence of a previous race & their sites are often destroyed or dismissed.There is a real possibility that there was a predecessor before clovis which everyone is fixated on. I look forward to new discoveries myself.

    • @jeremywhakarau2403
      @jeremywhakarau2403 Před rokem

      They were the ancestors of the Maori And name "Maori " isn't the correct reference to this culture either

    • @CONEHEADDK
      @CONEHEADDK Před rokem

      Old news papers speaking of all kinds of things looking egyptian found in caves in the Grand Canyon aso. Giants too.

  • @adammoat3100
    @adammoat3100 Před 10 měsíci

    the disrespect to the resting place of the young girl is totally wrong shame on all those SCUMBAGS

  • @willorr1494
    @willorr1494 Před rokem +2

    I think allott of the original peoples sailed to sth. america from the pacific islands Australia. They have found Australian Aboriginal fossils from a cave in sth america, so ice age time line the world looked very different and it would have been not hard to sail, island hop to the americas

  • @hezahenchos
    @hezahenchos Před rokem

    💀 INTRESTING 💀.

  • @fkk7899
    @fkk7899 Před rokem

    Great adult fantasy show. 10/10

  • @reverendbarker650
    @reverendbarker650 Před rokem +3

    This doco is afflicted by the usual use of constant over dramatic music , the sort that is used in epics, why is it that directors have to accompany every second of footage with doom laden portentous music, accompanied by doom laden voiceovers ? it gets right on my tits. Just because is now easy to add music cheaply from formulaic programs that give you gigabytes of options at your fingertips doesn't mean you have to use them all constantly !!!!!!! The basic rule of filmaking is ' less is more " . Increasingly docos resemble feature films in their choice of music.
    there must be hundreds of changes in music in this doco and its a merciful relief when the sodding background music stops for just a few seconds.

  • @OldOwl2003
    @OldOwl2003 Před rokem

    They have always been there, and scientists know it .

    • @8698gil
      @8698gil Před rokem +1

      What do you mean, "always"? Modern human beings first emerged in Africa in the last 200,000 years, and have been migrating all over the world since then.

  • @lewisjones2825
    @lewisjones2825 Před rokem

    As if you can't cross an eleven-mile Bering Straits

  • @bjabbbjabb1286
    @bjabbbjabb1286 Před rokem

    Meltwater pulse 1a 12800years ago younger dryas

  • @baggieknight8411
    @baggieknight8411 Před rokem +1

    Ok the whole time you keep saying that she went in alone?????
    How can you just ASSUME that????
    I'd think that more than likely she'd be in a group!!!
    Cause they knew better than to go alone!!!
    You know like after a couple of people getting killed by wild animals and poisonous snakes and spider

  • @ALI44344
    @ALI44344 Před rokem

    يبدو ان قصة وفاة نايا ماساوية ناتجة عن مطارده خطرة واضطرت للاجل انقاذ نفسها بالدخول الى هذا الكهف العظام الموجودة بقربها من الحيوانات ستكشف قصة مرعبة لموت نايا

  • @MdKhan-rs1ch
    @MdKhan-rs1ch Před 10 měsíci

    Big bang ariya machining.
    Jum tha cellen water. .
    Samj...,_?

  • @giurgiualexandru-szabolcs209

    💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

  • @redhen2123
    @redhen2123 Před rokem

    So they found two 11,000 year old infants in Alaska and from that made the leap that it was the same people who originally crossed over 20,000 years ago. Sounds suspect to me. What about the primitive robust skull of the 16 year old girl and others? I'm sure there were different waves of immigrants who killed or drove off earlier migrants, just like how the Inuit replaced the Thule peoples who replaced the Dorset peoples in the Arctic.

  • @lacey3880
    @lacey3880 Před rokem

    America wat age

  • @michaelscarlino1590
    @michaelscarlino1590 Před rokem +3

    So basically, native Americans are from Asia, however it’s tried to be glossed over….

  • @uyoebyik
    @uyoebyik Před rokem

    I think pangea was real, one big continent broke apart

  • @csachevauxsansabri2612

    These are simply the surviving people of the big flood. The girl like the animals must have fallen into a pit filled with water, covered and turned to stone over time. It is that simple. Now if I was you I would look around the aria for signs of other old bones and arrows because I dont think a girl would have wondered far from home.

    • @Matt_Wilson01
      @Matt_Wilson01 Před rokem

      I’m not listening to anyone that spells flood “flud”

    • @csachevauxsansabri2612
      @csachevauxsansabri2612 Před rokem

      @@Matt_Wilson01 sorry if my english is not to your satisfaction, but if this is how you treat people that try to help, scroo you. Hope that was clear enough for you. I can elaborate if you so wish. Spelling corrected

  • @bjabbbjabb1286
    @bjabbbjabb1286 Před rokem

    She got flushed in by the same tsunami like the animals

  • @molliem8192
    @molliem8192 Před rokem +1

    I find the music, extremely irritating, especially when you have sensitive ears. I am forever turning down and up my sound. That goes for everything.

    • @vanman757
      @vanman757 Před 10 dny

      Watch it through your TV like I am now & probably most people watching these PBS documentaries ?! 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @ralphadamson2578
    @ralphadamson2578 Před rokem

    Should be wearing gloves!!

  • @chevtruck1000
    @chevtruck1000 Před rokem +3

    Nicely filmed , well narrated but sadly completely cherry picked collection of facts that sidesteps the truth nicely.

  • @fernandocortes1187
    @fernandocortes1187 Před rokem

    43:00 Native americans DNA

  • @neilforbes416
    @neilforbes416 Před rokem

    So, humans arrived on the American continent 13 thousand to 15 thousand years ago? *BIG DEAL!!!* Australia lays claim to the *OLDEST STILL-SURVIVING PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!* Our Aboriginal people have existed on this continent for between 60 and 65 thousand years, that's *SIXTY MILLENNIA!*

    • @8698gil
      @8698gil Před rokem

      I thought it was 40000 years.

    • @neilforbes416
      @neilforbes416 Před rokem

      @@8698gil American natives(Indians) occupied the American Continent(taking in what's now Canada and the USA) for 13,000 to 15,000 years but Australia's Aboriginal people have inhabited this continent(plus the island of Tasmania) for 60,000 to 65,000 years, that's well over four times the period of Indian inhabitation of the American continent.

    • @reverendbarker650
      @reverendbarker650 Před rokem

      its not a fucking competition mate, or are you one of the sort of Aussies that insist that we have to be best at everything , even the age of our ancestors ? " Aw mate, my fucking' ancestors are millenia older than yours, so suck on that yer drongo !"

  • @davidlloyd2225
    @davidlloyd2225 Před rokem

    As it

  • @fluffgirl1000
    @fluffgirl1000 Před rokem +3

    They are all fascinated by bones ..how did they died ..but nobody worry about the people who sleep on the street

  • @sally183
    @sally183 Před rokem

    She's in palimount take anyone

  • @bjabbbjabb1286
    @bjabbbjabb1286 Před rokem

    Water dont kill dna. Denisovans 50000years

  • @pippastin
    @pippastin Před rokem +1

    I had to Google Naia's facial reconstruction with eyelashes, hair, skin texture etc. and she looks quite Mongolian.

  • @escapefelicity2913
    @escapefelicity2913 Před rokem

    What were your hopes for that fuking background noise?

  • @khalinras6786
    @khalinras6786 Před rokem +1

    Not the first peoples black African olmecs were there long before Clovis people stop telling lies.clovis as you call them were part of the Mongolian migration across baring straights 13-16 thousand years ago practically yesterday compared to how long the africans have been there 😢

    • @remy0209
      @remy0209 Před 5 měsíci

      Los olmecas eran de rasgo asiatico no africano

  • @BJTO2022
    @BJTO2022 Před rokem

    Archaeologist or grave robbers ?

    • @the.true.A
      @the.true.A Před měsícem

      Archeologist, this is no grave

  • @leadershipvids
    @leadershipvids Před rokem +2

    why do we can't we just allow the science to do it's job instead of gravitating to the spiritual mumbo jumbo in between

  • @gavingroom3384
    @gavingroom3384 Před 10 měsíci

    Apart from they're using carbon fourteen Method, and it is admitted That Doesn't work ! There's to many Variables

  • @DL-fi5cc
    @DL-fi5cc Před rokem +1

    The First Face of Mexico.
    Started by mentioning Mexican caves, then the Americas then America.
    Mexican history.

    • @uri0606
      @uri0606 Před rokem

      Earliest human finding in the Americas. why does it matter which country?

  • @davegoodwin1950
    @davegoodwin1950 Před rokem

    Allrate? So, what's the story of your British ancestry then pal?

    • @the.true.A
      @the.true.A Před měsícem

      Learn to fucking write before talking shit

  • @patrickhumecky7787
    @patrickhumecky7787 Před rokem +4

    I love the video but you need to be more exact about science and conjecture it has to be irrefutable for it to be science

    • @8698gil
      @8698gil Před rokem +1

      Science gives the best explanation with the evidence we currently have. New discoveries may add onto an existing theory. Science never stops. There is no "end".

    • @jimmaughan1898
      @jimmaughan1898 Před rokem

      All scientific knowledge is provisional.

  • @philipking8497
    @philipking8497 Před rokem

    G-Nome's, Wow. Is that like what we are now. Isn't there something called like Degenerative G-Nome Deficiency Syndrome. I have the number. Bofia.

  • @playgirl7305
    @playgirl7305 Před rokem +1

    The first people in the Americas were stranded fishermen from West Africa!

  • @davidkendrick5671
    @davidkendrick5671 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Wonderful science, terrible "dramatic" script and horrible music... C -

  • @billyray323
    @billyray323 Před rokem

    Oh so you believe?