Diver finds 7,000 year-old burial site off Florida coast
Digital Reporter
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 1:43 PM - In what experts are calling an "unprecedented" find, a 7000 year-old burial site containing human remains has been found off the Florida coast.
At first glance, the spot was mistaken for a crime scene, until radiocarbon tests on the wood buried with the bones confirmed their age.
"There’s nothing else like this on the planet ... and it’s offshore Manasota Key," historian John McCarthy, executive director of Historic Spanish Point, told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
"They buried their dead in a very specific way by using wooden stakes to pin the bodies down into a marsh or bog-like situation," McCarthy said, via Tampa's Fox 13 News.
"What was uncovered in the sand was actually the burials with woven materials and wood and the human remains themselves."Sea levels have risen by about 9 metres over the past seven thousand years, meaning the burial spot used to be a freshwater pond.
Experts say what's more remarkable is the fact the remains survived countless storms and hurricanes.
The findings were published in early March.
