The Windover archaeological site is an Early Archaic (6000 to 5000 BC) archaeological site found in Brevard County near Titusville, Florida, USA. The Windover Archaeological Site Collection is a result of a multi-year project with the Department of Anthropology at FSU. marker is listed in these topic lists: Native Americans • Paleontology • Science & Medicine . The Windover Archeological Site is an Early Archaic (6000 to 5000 BC) archaeological site and National Historic Landmark in Brevard County near Titusville, Florida, on the central east coast of the state. The Windover Archaelogical site is named for the Windover Farms subdivision which was being built when the site was discovered. William W. Hauswirth. The site is now an archaeological landmark, protected by Florida Law and the residents surrounding the pond keep careful watch over this most significant site. Windover is a muck pond where skeletal remains of 168 individuals were found buried in the Windover is a muck pond where skeletal remains of 168 individuals were found buried in the peat at the bottom of the pond. Philip J. Laipis. Windover is a muck pond where remains of 168 individuals were found buried in the peat at the bottom of the pond. The Windover Archeological Site is an Early Archaic (6000 to 5000 BC) archaeological site found in Brevard County near Titusville, Florida, USA, on the central east coast of the state.Windover is a muck pond where skeletal remains of 168 individuals were found buried in the peat at the bottom of the pond.
The skeletons were well preserved because of their burial in the peat. Windover Site (Other Keyword) 1-14 (14 Records) Anatomical, Cellular and Molecular Analysis of 8,000 Year-Old Human Brain Tissue from the Windover Archaeological Site (1986) DOCUMENT Citation Only Glen H. Doran. Around 8,000 years ago near the east coast of central Florida, a group of Archaic people lived by a small pond. Jerald T. Milanich states that Windover has provided “unprecedented and dramatic” information about early Archaic people in Florida, and that the Windover site may be “one of the most significant archaeological sites ever excavated.”. After the excavations were completed, the Windover site was filled with the same peat that was initially removed from the area, and continuing studies will likely occur there at a future date when more funding is available.
William E. Ballinger, Jr.. O. Frank Agee. The Windover Bog Bodies, Among the Greatest Archeological Discoveries Ever Unearthed in the United States.
The Windover Archaeological Site, the most significant burial complex in North America, is a charnel pond used by early hunter-gatherers more than 7,000 years BP. The Windover Archeological Site is an Early Archaic (6000 to 5000 BC) archaeological site and National Historic Landmark in Brevard County near Titusville, Florida, USA, on the central east coast of the state. In 1982, a backhoe driver named Steve Vangerjagt discovered one of the most important archaeological burial sites in North America. Below are the faculty, staff and students who worked to bring materials from this collection to our patrons. The Windover Archeological Site is an Early Archaic (6000 to 5000 BC) archaeological site and National Historic Landmark in Brevard County near Titusville, Florida, USA, on the central east coast of the state. Read Later ; Print. Today, the skeletons from Windover continue to enlighten. The human remains uncovered at the Windover site were between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, making them 3,200 years older than King Tutankhamen and 2,000 years older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
It is estimated that there has been water in the spot of the Windover Archaeological Site since as far back as 9,000 or 8,000 BCE. It took two years to raise the money to do a systematic excavation of the Windover site. It was only after the bones were declared very old and not the product of a mass murder that the 167 bodies found in a pond in Windover, Florida began to stir up excitement in the archeological world. Windover Bog (and sometimes known as Windover Pond) was a pond cemetery for hunter-gatherers, people who lived hunting game and gathering vegetable material between about 8120-6990 years ago.The burials were staked down in the soft mud of the pond, and over the years at least 168 people were buried there, men, women, and children. David N. Dickel. Windover Pond is one of a number of sites in Florida excavated since 1970 that have led to a major reassessment of the Archaic period in Florida. The skeletons were well preserved because of the characteristics of peat. The shallow pond, Windover, turned out to be an ancient burial site for these early people and the peat sediments and water chemistry was such that it preserved both human remains and grave goods.