The 8,000-Year-Old Cemetery Found Beneath A Florida Pond — And The Human Brain Tissue Still Preserved Inside The Skulls
Names, identities, group boundaries — these are social and linguistic constructs that do not survive in the material record.
Windover cannot tell us what specific spiritual or cosmological beliefs the community held.
The mortuary practice documents what was done; it cannot reconstruct the belief that motivated the practice.
Windover cannot tell us what stories the community told about itself, about the world, about the pond where it buried its dead.
The narratives, the oral traditions, the explanations — none of these survive.
Windover cannot establish a specific modern tribal connection.