The specifics — the names, the relationships, the particular events of particular days — are gone.

But the aggregate of the mortuary record, read carefully and with attention to the details that the peat preserved, gestures toward them.

Behind the data, there were people.

What Future Science Might Find In The Unexcavated Portion

Glen Doran’s decision to leave approximately half of Windover Pond unexcavated was a form of scientific humility — an acknowledgment that the tools available in the 1980s, however impressive, would not be the final word.

He was right.