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May 20, 2024 · The operator of a digger noticed skulls collecting in the machinery, triggering an excavation and investigation, uncovering over 177 human remains that date back 7,000 to 8,000 years ago. The...
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Jan 13, 2021 · It was a warm, spring day in 1982 when backhoe operator Steve Vanderjagt paused to examine a pale rock he had uncovered while working construction near the edge of a pond at Windover Farms in Brevard County, Florida.
May 25, 2024 · In the winter of 1982, Steve Vanderjagt was using a backhoe to excavate a pond in Windover, Florida when he made a shocking discovery. Expecting to uncover peat and muck, he instead found human bones. Lots of them.
- A Family Affair
- Overcoming Obstacles
- A Rare Discovery
- The Inhabitants of Windover
- The Human Condition
The bog held a Stone Age dynasty. Generation upon generation of a single interrelated clan were returning their dead to the earth as a family tradition. The dramatic dental wear of the skulls gave a clue to the age of these people. These days we only use our teeth for chewing food but in ancient cultures, teeth were all-purpose tools, faced with mu...
Before the excavation could begin a colossal obstacle stood in the archaeologists’ way – millions of gallons of water. It took two years to come up with a solution to emptying the marsh. It was an epic engineering operation sinking 150 well points into the peat and pumping out 700 gallons of water a minute round the clock. The five skulls found by ...
Throughout the excavation, the team was continually stunned as they unearth not just bone but things far more fragile and rare. The unearthing of unusually heavy skulls stopped the archaeologists in their tracks. Common sense told them that the mass inside the skulls had to be peat but later testing revealed the preserved human brains. After seven ...
The early inhabitants of America descended from people who had crossed over from Asia at the end of the Ice Age. The DNA of these Native Americans is easily distinguished from all other ethnic groups. DNA shows that they hadn’t interbred outside of their own tribe, suggesting in this age, it was perhaps rare to come into contact with other tribes. ...
Next to the skeletons, the archaeologists found jewellery, ornaments and weapons. Highly valued offerings were placed with the bodies during the burial ceremony suggesting Windover was a sacred place, perhaps believed to be a gateway to the next life. An elaborate death ceremony involving all the care and respect of a modern-day funeral was emergin...
Life and Death at Windover, Excavations of a 7000 year old Pond Cemetary. In 1982, a backhoe operator working at what would become the new Windover Farms housing development in Titusville, Florida, uncovered a human skull. The bones of several other individuals soon emerged from the peat bog.
Feb 7, 2021 · Judging from the films on Youtube about the Windover Pond site, Florida archaeologists don’t seem to know that burials identical to those in Florida can be found in southern Sweden, southern Finland and Karelia, but given the results of the most recent DNA studies of Windover mummified bodies, this is highly significant.
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The site was discovered in 1982 when work began on building a road across the pond in a new housing development, Windover Farms. A backhoe operator noticed several skulls in the bucket of his machine. The sheriff and medical examiner determined that the burials were not recent.
