The 8,000-Year-Old Cemetery Found Beneath A Florida Pond — And The Human Brain Tissue Still Preserved Inside The Skulls
The Windover diet included plant foods, but it was not the starch-dominated diet that agriculture later produced.
Some individuals show evidence of dental infection, and in at least some cases those infections appear to have been treated — or at minimum survived — long enough for the bone to show remodeling responses.
Whether this represents deliberate treatment or simply survival long enough for the bone response to develop is difficult to establish, but it adds to the picture of a population that was not experiencing catastrophic attrition from infection.
The Pond As Archive — What Ecology Survived
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