Life and death at Windover : excavations of a 7,000-year-old pond cemetery

Name/Title

Life and death at Windover : excavations of a 7,000-year-old pond cemetery

Entry/Object ID

Library.218

Description

iii, 145 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Life and death at Windover : excavations of a 7,000-year-old pond cemetery by Rachel K. Wentz. Includes index. In 1982, a backhoe operator working at what would become the new Windover Farms housing development in Titusville, Florida, uncovered a human skull. ...It would be determined that the human remains ...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..."

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Burial -- Florida -- Brevard County., Excavations (Archaeology) -- Florida -- Brevard County., Paleo Indians -- Anthropometry -- Florida -- Brevard County., Paleo Indians -- Funeral customs and rites -- Florida -- Brevard County., Water saturated sites (Archaeology) -- Florida., Windover Pond Site (Fla.).

Publication Details

Author

Wentz, Rachel K.

Publisher

Florida Historical Society

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Cocoa, Fla.

Call No.

E 78 .F6 W533 2012

ISBN

9781886104556