The 8,000-Year-Old Cemetery Found Beneath A Florida Pond — And The Human Brain Tissue Still Preserved Inside The Skulls
They carried a paralyzed boy for fifteen years through a mobile landscape that required physical capability to survive in.
They placed ornaments on infants who had barely lived.
They wrapped their dead in complex woven fabric and oriented them carefully and held them in place in the peat.
They maintained this practice across what appears to have been generations of community life, returning to the same pond, placing their dead in the same way, building an archive that no one intended to build.
When the peat was opened in 1984, the archive was there: 168 people, wrapped and positioned and accompanied, preserved in ways that should not have been possible in a hot, humid, subtropical Florida environment.
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