Introduction Post

 Introduction:

Personal Introduction:

My name is Derrick Wheeler and I am, obviously, a student at FSCJ, I've been living in Jacksonville all my life (Except for August-December 2021 when I was in Tallahassee). My mother's side of the family has been in Florida for a very long time, and just like most people, they could not escape the vacuum that is Jacksonville, and they are now living here for the rest of time. My father's side of the family is a bit more complicated, we do not have much of a precedent in the US because my dad's side immigrated to the United States after World War II to escape the Nazis, but then they moved all over the place until joining the military landed my grandparents in Jacksonville.  

Reflection upon materials:

It was interesting to learn about the Paleoindians and how "they entered Florida around 10,000 B.C.," (Gannon 3).  In retrospect, it should have been obvious to me that the group of people who had crossed the Bering Strait would have made it into Florida "about the same time that they moved into other parts of what is now the United States" (Gannon  3). Seeing how melted glaciers had altered the sea levels and the frequency in which water levels fluctuated had affected the settling patterns of the Paleoindians is interesting because it shows that the early human settlements correlate heavily to the modern human settlements of Tampa, Charlotte Harbor, etc. However, seeing that only within a period of 2,500 years they evolved from the Paleoindians to the early Archaic peoples shows a remarkable growth period especially considering the early peoples of the Old World. Using peat to "preserve an array of normally perishable artifacts in human tissues" is brilliant considering how these peoples are just on the heels of discovering stone tools. These people discovered a way of preserving bodies in water that was still recoverable to modern science (Gannon 6).  

Source Cited:

Gannon, M. (2018). The history of Florida. University Press of Florida.