The 8,000-Year-Old Cemetery Found Beneath A Florida Pond — And The Human Brain Tissue Still Preserved Inside The Skulls
They were placed in a pond that their community understood as sacred or special.
They were accompanied by objects that said something about who they had been.
Eight thousand years later, the fabric survived.
The bones survived.
In 91 of the skulls, preserved intracranial tissue survived.
And from that survival, a picture emerged — fragmentary, incomplete, but irreplaceable — of people who had lived in the Florida interior long before history began, who had built a community with values that archaeology could partially read, and who had been buried in a pond that turned out to be one of the most extraordinary preservation environments in North American archaeological history.
The pond that looked like nothing held them for 8,000 years.
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