This places them in the same biological family as all Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere.

But the specific haplogroup frequency distribution documented at Windover does not match any known modern or historical Native American population closely.

Doran’s analysis concludes that the Windover people may represent a genetically distinct group whose specific lineage was either lost to extinction or so diluted by subsequent demographic events that it is no longer detectable in the modern record.

This conclusion must be held carefully.

Ancient DNA analysis, particularly in the early phase of the field when the Windover analysis was conducted, had limitations that more recent analyses have partially addressed.