People who weave complex fabrics in multiple techniques are not technologically simple.

They are technologically sophisticated in ways that the surviving stone record fails to capture.

Wooden Stakes And Mortuary Practices

The Windover burials were not simply bodies placed in water.

The mortuary practice documented at the site appears to have involved specific and deliberate positioning of the dead, and in some cases the use of wooden stakes to keep the bodies in place within the peat.

The typical burial position at Windover was flexed — the body placed on its side with the legs drawn up, in what is sometimes described as a fetal position.