The 8,000-Year-Old Cemetery Found Beneath A Florida Pond — And The Human Brain Tissue Still Preserved Inside The Skulls
Until then, the pond holds what it holds.
And the people buried there — placed carefully in the water and the peat by a community that cared for them, in a practice maintained across what seems to have been multiple generations — remain what they have always been.
Not curiosities.
Not data points.
Not skulls with interesting tissue inside them.
They were members of a community.
They were cared for.
They were wrapped in fabric that someone wove.