The 8,000-Year-Old Cemetery Found Beneath A Florida Pond — And The Human Brain Tissue Still Preserved Inside The Skulls
But the half left in the pond remains, in a material sense, what it has always been: a cemetery, with its dead.
This is not a claim about the specific beliefs of the Windover community or about what they would have wanted.
Those beliefs are inaccessible.
It is simply an observation about the physical reality: half the pond is a cemetery still, and the decision to leave it as such was a decision that honored the irreversibility of excavation.
The Final Return To The Ordinary Pond
There is something worth noting about how the Windover story ends — or rather, does not end.