The science of Windover is not complete.

It is a continuing project, ongoing across the decades since the excavations ended, adding incrementally to the picture that the extraordinary preservation made possible.

The Broader Significance For American Archaeology

The discovery and excavation of Windover Pond transformed the understanding of Early Archaic Florida, but its implications reach further.

The basic argument that Windover supports — that the organic record of prehistoric North America is far richer than the surviving archaeological record reveals — applies everywhere in the continent where organic materials have failed to preserve.

This is nearly everywhere.