The pattern of healed injuries and managed conditions throughout the skeletal population suggests that the Windover community provided support to injured and ill members rather than abandoning them.

In a mobile hunter-gatherer society, this is not economically automatic — it requires the community to assume the burden of supporting individuals who cannot fully contribute to the food supply while they recover or for extended periods.

The dental record adds additional detail.

The heavy tooth wear documented across the Windover population reflects a diet that incorporated significant quantities of grit from stone grinding — consistent with plant food processing using stone tools.

Dental caries — cavities — are relatively rare in the Windover sample, consistent with a diet that was not heavily dependent on fermentable carbohydrates in the way that agricultural populations’ diets tend to be.