The 8,000-Year-Old Cemetery Found Beneath A Florida Pond — And The Human Brain Tissue Still Preserved Inside The Skulls
Woven textiles in multiple techniques.
Wooden stakes.
Worked antler and bone.
Gourd containers.
Preserved dietary remains.
Intracranial tissue.
The organic archive of an Early Archaic Florida community was there all along — but only the extraordinary conditions of a specific pond preserved enough of it to be recovered.
Every stone tool assemblage in the Americas, every period and every place where the record is limited to the durable fraction, represents a community whose full material life was far richer than what survived.
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