Antler tools appear in the assemblage — pieces worked into points and handles and implements that would have been used in hunting, in processing plant material, in constructing things from other organic materials.

Bone was similarly worked: awls, points, and other implements produced from the bones of deer and other animals.

Bone teeth from the jaws of animals appear to have been used as tools for textile production or similar fine work.

The gourds are another remarkable find.

Fragments of gourd — Lagenaria siceraria, the bottle gourd — were recovered from Windover.

The bottle gourd is a cultivated plant whose wild form is African; its presence in Florida 8,000 years ago raises interesting questions about early plant use and distribution in the Americas, questions that the site’s botanical evidence has contributed to without fully resolving.

The dietary evidence from the gut contents of some individuals included plant material — seeds and berries, in some accounts — that provided direct evidence of what was being consumed.