The interior of Florida in the Early Archaic was not a difficult environment for people who knew it well.

It offered water, protein, plant carbohydrates, and the raw materials for tool production.

The Windover community, whatever its size, appears to have been meeting its subsistence needs without significant evidence of chronic nutritional stress in the skeletal population.

The Radiocarbon Framework — Getting The Ages Right

The radiocarbon chronology of Windover is more nuanced than the single headline figure “8,000 years” suggests, and getting it right is important for understanding what the site actually documents.

The 1986 Nature paper reported radiocarbon dates from two types of material: directly from human bone and from peat matrix associated with the burials.