Elderberries and nightshade berries have been mentioned in various accounts of the Windover plant evidence, with the suggestion that some of these plants may have been used for their medicinal properties — elderberries have anti-inflammatory and analgesic qualities that have been known in many cultures.

Whether this represents deliberate medicinal use or simply dietary variation cannot be established with certainty from the archaeological evidence, but the presence of plants with known medicinal properties in the gut contents of individuals who also show evidence of conditions like arthritis is at minimum suggestive.

Fish and other fauna were part of the diet as well.

The ecological and dietary evidence from the peat matrix and from individual gut contents began to sketch a picture of people who were drawing on the full range of resources that the Florida interior offered: aquatic resources from the pond and nearby water bodies, plant foods from the surrounding landscape, terrestrial animals hunted in the scrub and forest.

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