The 8,000-Year-Old Cemetery Found Beneath A Florida Pond — And The Human Brain Tissue Still Preserved Inside The Skulls
It was evidence of care.
They cared for their disabled.
They buried their children with ornaments.
They wrapped their dead in complex fabric and held them in place with wooden stakes.
They maintained a practice across generations.
They lived in ways that the standard archaeological record, built from stone alone, had made invisible.
Windover made some of it visible.
The half that remains in the peat, undisturbed, may make more of it visible still — when the time and the tools and the ethical frameworks of some future generation allow the question to be asked in forms that have not yet been invented.
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