The later Windover publications refined the radiocarbon chronology with additional dates from multiple burial contexts, building a more detailed picture of the site’s temporal framework.

The overall conclusion is that the Windover burials span an extended period of use, likely representing multiple generations of a community that returned repeatedly to this specific pond for the interment of its dead.

The precise relationship between the earliest and latest burials at the site — how many generations of use the full chronological spread represents, whether there were continuous or intermittent periods of cemetery use — is a question that the radiocarbon record can address only approximately.

Radiocarbon dating has inherent statistical uncertainty that prevents the dating of individual burials to within decades; the best resolution available for a typical measurement is several decades to a century.