Editing Bog body (section)

===North America===
A number of skeletons found in Florida have been called "bog people". These skeletons are the remains of people buried in peat between 5,000 and 8,000 years ago, during the Early and Middle [[Archaic period in the Americas]]. The peat at the Florida sites is loosely consolidated and much wetter than in European bogs. As a result, the skeletons are well preserved, but skin and most internal organs have not been preserved. An exception is that preserved brains have been found in nearly 100 skulls at [[Windover Archaeological Site]] and in one of several burials at [[Little Salt Spring]]. [[Textiles]] were also preserved with some of the burials, the oldest known textiles in Florida.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tyson |first=Peter |title=America's Bog People |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/americas-bog-people.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202031341/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/americas-bog-people.html |archive-date=2 December 2011 |access-date=3 December 2011 |website=[[Nova (American TV series)|NOVA]] |date=7 February 2006 |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Milanich |first=Jerald T. |title=Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida |publisher=University Press of Florida |year=1994 |isbn=0-8130-1272-4 |location=Gainesville |pages=70–75 |author-link=Jerald T. Milanich}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Milanich |first=Jerald T. |title=Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present |publisher=University Press of Florida |year=1998 |isbn=0-8130-1598-7 |location=Gainesville |page=16}}</ref> A 7,000-year-old presumed peat pond burial site, the [[Manasota Key Offshore]] archaeological site, has been found under {{convert|21|ft|m}} of water near Sarasota. Archaeologists believe that early Archaic Native Americans buried the bodies in a freshwater pond when the sea level was much lower. The peat in the ponds helped preserve the skeletons.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Gannon |first=Megan |date=28 February 2018 |title=7,000-Year-Old Native American Burial Site Found Underwater |url=https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/florida-native-american-indian-burial-underwater/ |url-status=dead |magazine=National Geographic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302034622/https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/florida-native-american-indian-burial-underwater/ |archive-date=2 March 2018 |access-date=2 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rodriquez |first=Nicole |date=28 February 2018 |title=Archaeological site, 7,000 years old, found in Gulf near Venice |publisher=Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune |url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180228/archaeological-site-7000-years-old-found-in-gulf-near-venice |url-status=live |access-date=2 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302104107/http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180228/archaeological-site-7000-years-old-found-in-gulf-near-venice |archive-date=2 March 2018}}</ref>