"It's unusually well preserved, considering it's been under a highway with thousands and thousands of cars going over it every day."

She rested in peace for about 2,000 years until utility crews came shortly before Christmas to install a new waterline on Pine Island Road in Davie.

That's when the fully intact skeleton of what is believed to be a Tequesta Indian woman was found — perhaps the best-preserved remains of an ancient human uncovered in the past 40 years.

Read more at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.