The 8,000-Year-Old Cemetery Found Beneath A Florida Pond — And The Human Brain Tissue Still Preserved Inside The Skulls

Halfway through the story of Windover, the emphasis necessarily shifts.

For the first half, the story is appropriately focused on the extraordinary nature of what was preserved: the fact of preservation in a hostile environment, the chemistry of peat and waterlogging, the discovery of organic artifacts and then of intracranial tissue and then of ancient DNA.

These are the elements of the story that initially defined Windover’s significance in the scientific and public imagination.

But the most important thing about Windover is not the science of preservation.