Hmmm!

Hmmm

I recently saw a post that gave reference to a 1982 discovery of a highly preserved body of a human over 7,000 years old, in Florida. Now, Florida is not known for such artifacts so my curiosity was peaked. It turns out the remains of over 168 humans were found in a pond bog in an area southwest of St. Augustine, near Titusville, and west of the Indian River. Many of the bodies had been intentionally buried and wrapped in cloth by someone. These Native Americans lived in Florida 2,000 years before the pyramids were built in Egypt.

This group is called the Windover People and DNA analysis shows they had ancient Asian marker similarities. They fished, hunted, and gathered food. They fought with other humans as some of the remains revealed they had been killed by spearpoints. The burial process was deliberate as the bodies were covered in cloth that was secured in the bog with stakes below the water line.

We’ve been around a long time. We are all part of a lifeform continuum that has existed for over 200,000 years, and our hominin human relatives were around as far back as 7 million B.C.E. When I was born, the world population was 2.3 billion. By the time I reached high school, that number was up to 3 billion. Today, it stands at around 8 billion. We have been stumbling over the surface of the earth for just around 0.01% of its history.

Spain, France, Great Britain, and the United States have claimed the area now called Florida. I will intentionally ignore the Confederate Flag as the CSA was never considered a nation by any foreign government. So, we have an ancient civilization in Florida of Asian descent and other Native Americans who were here before any Europeans dared venture to this Florida corner of the world. This raises the question, “Who are the immigrants again?”