NOVA: "DAWN OF HUMANITY"
PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET
It seems like just the other day that this paleoanthropological discovery made headlines: a formerly unknown cache of early hominid bones, discovered deep in a cave near Johannesburg and rewriting history about our human ancestors. In fact, it was just the other day – but here’s a ripped-from-those-headlines PBS Nova special, which takes us on the trip, with the excavating team, as it encounters and recovers this very significant find. Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones… Check local listings.