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Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 09 January 2014  Page Views: 9271

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Windover (Florida) Alternative Name: 8BR246
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Titusville, FL
Latitude: 28.540000N  Longitude: 80.843W
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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3 Ambience:
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3Ordinary
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1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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bat400 couldn't find on 1st Sep 2009 I drove passed this site multiple times without knowing it (while hunting for it!) Despite the pond's location directly along a paved road through a housing estate, there is no place to stop and look at the pond without walking through a private home's back garden or "bushwacking" through Florida underbrush. As described in the site listing, you are better off visiting the Brevard County History and Science Museum and asking them if any visits to the site are planned.

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Brevard Museum of History and Natural Sciences submitted by Flickr : Homo sapiens -- Human skeleton from the Windover site in Florida Visiting the Brevard County Museum of History and Natural Science in Cocoa, Florida. Image copyright: Tangled Bank, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cemetery in Brevard County, Florida.
One of the oldest communal burial sites in the Americas. The Windover community of 6000 - 5000 BC buried their dead in a shallow pond, many of them wrapped in cloth and pegged to the bottom. The site was partially excavated in the 1980's when the area was being developed for a housing estate. Over 100 fully articulated sets of remains were found, some including brain tissue. Other burials were left untouched.

A National Register of Historic Places site. Although the Windover Bog is on private land, the site in under county management. However, there is no interpretive information and no immediate access to the site. With no parking, and surrounded by private homes, the casual visitor is possibly better off waiting for a rare visit to the site organized by the Brevard County History and Science Museum which has an exhibit describing the many finds from the Windover site.

The North Brevard Business Directory also includes a webpage on the site.

The Archaeology Conservancy has purchased a buffer zone of land surrounding the existing pond in other to better protect the site and prevent encroachment of housing development.

Note: Archaeology Conservancy buys land surrounding 7000 year old Florida burial pond. See comments.
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Windover (Florida)
Windover (Florida) submitted by bat400_photo : "This is a peat bog accidentally discovered in 1982 which preserved the burials of native americans 7,000 to 8,000 years ago. It is located in dense woods and hard to find ... but locals who are proud of the site will help you find it." 12 March 2012, 17:24:15 Author: Roy Klotz MD This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Paramedic-archaeologist sees ancient culture's medical inginuity in mortuary pond by Anonymous on Tuesday, 01 October 2019
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Prehistoric burial site on safer ground now by bat400 on Thursday, 09 January 2014
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Tucked behind a leafy oak hammock near this Brevard County city, a murky blackwater bog containing some of the world's rarest archaeological treasures will remain protected from a potential housing development. The vegetated 8.5-acre upland buffer bordering the Windover Archaeological Site has been purchased for $90,000 by The Archaeological Conservancy. This New Mexico-based organization has acquired and preserved more than 465 historic sites across the United States.

A backhoe operator stumbled upon the prehistoric burial ground in 1982. Since then, scientists have excavated 168 remarkably preserved skeletons dating to the Early Archaic period from Windover's swamp — including some of the oldest brain DNA samples ever found on the planet. Radiocarbon dating of these bones goes back as far back as 8,120 years, thousands of years before the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built.

The threat of land-clearing construction had encroached the renowned archaeological site the past four years, specifically single-family housing. A financially struggling landowner, the Rockledge-based Preservation and Education Trust (PET), nearly placed these five undeveloped housing lots accessing the National Historic Landmark on the real estate market.

"Windover is an extremely significant and important site. It's unique," said Jessica Crawford, The Archaeological Conservancy's Southeast regional director in Marks, Miss. "We'll do what we need to do to keep it protected and keep it intact," Crawford said.

Excavation at the Windover Archaeological Site occurred from 1984-86. Scientists unearthed semi-domesticated plants; the skeleton of a boy with spina bifida who lived to about age 15; and some of the Western Hemisphere's oldest textile fabrics. These discoveries forced archaeologists to revise their theories of North America's early inhabitants, who were thought to be nomadic hunter-gatherers.

Key finds included 91 skulls containing brain tissue; hammers fashioned from manatee ribs; and knives and scrapers made using shark and wolf teeth.

Cocoa resident Rachel Wentz, a Florida Public Archaeology Network regional director, worked about a decade analyzing Windover skeletons at a Florida State University laboratory. Her book Life and Death at Windover: Excavations of a 7,000-year-old Pond Cemetery was published last year.

Roughly two months ago, she toured the bygone burial bog with a camera crew for an upcoming History Channel program.
"I just think it's wonderful news. The site is so important to what we have discovered — and can learn — about ancient Floridians," Wentz said.

For more, see http://www.usatoday.com
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Paramedic-archaeologist sees ancient culture's medical inginuity in mortuary pond by bat400 on Thursday, 09 January 2014
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Letter from Florida: The Origins of American Medicine Volume 64 Number 3, May/June 2011 by Rachel K. Wentz

Windover pond is a secluded body of water near the eastern coast of central Florida, minutes from Kennedy Space Center, in the city of Titusville. In winter, barren limbs draped in Spanish moss graze the pale-green mat of algae that covers its surface. The muddy shores gradually give way to shallow waters. Shadows roll over the pond's surface. The air is cold, and the surrounding woods provide a buffer between the pond and the Windover Farms housing development and muffle the sound of neighborhood traffic, reducing it to a soft hum. It is the burial place of, as far as we know, 168 individuals.

The pond quietly held its ancient contents for thousands of years, until 1982, when a backhoe operator working on the construction of the Windover Farms subdivision discovered the burial site. For the last 10 years, this pond has been at the center of my work.

From 1984 to 1987, physical anthropologists led excavations of Windover Pond—now a protected archaeological site—and recovered the 168 bodies. Similar mortuary ponds have been discovered in Florida, all of them dating to the area's Archaic period (approximately 3,000 to 9,000 years ago). Radiocarbon dating of bone, wood, and a bottle gourd show that Windover Pond was in use before 5000 B.C. The burials found there comprise the largest skeletal population of this age in North America.

Source: archive.archaeology.org
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