USF prof to talk on ‘Early People of St. Joe Bay’
An earlier Tuesdays at Two presentation, cancelled due to the January snowstorm, has been rescheduled for this Tuesday, March 18.
University of South Florida archaeologist Nancy White will discuss the Past Peoples of the St. Joe Bay Region at the Corinne Costin Gibson Memorial Public Library in Port St. Joe at 2 p.m. ET.
The natural environments around St. Joseph Bay have provided abundant resources and welcoming climates for many different peoples through time. Join us for an informative talk describing the archaeological record from the first humans to arrive (14,000-plus years ago) through many Native American cultures and into modern times, highlighting the late prehistoric fisher-foragers and the short-lived 19th-century town of St. Joseph.
The speaker, who received her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, is a professor of anthropology at USF and specialist in the archaeology of the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee valley region in northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia.
For decades White has led students in field research and excavation, investigating the material culture of all time periods in this region and elsewhere, and working with local communities in public archaeology programs to understand the past. She also trains students to do contract archaeology in the path of proposed construction (including on the USF campus) to prepare them for jobs in the profession.
Among White’s publications are popular works (e.g., Archaeology for Dummies) and research books on various topics, such as Gulf Coast Archaeology and Late Prehistoric Florida, which she co-edited.
She is the first editor of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Eastern United States, which will be reissued in January for the 25th anniversary of its original publication (with a new preface). Her new two-volume synthesis, Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, presents the human record and cultural ecology of that region from the first prehistoric people to arrive, probably over 15,000 years ago, through the history of Hurricane Michael in 2018.
The lecture, free and open to the public, is made possible with support from the Friends of the Gulf County Public Libraries. Refreshments provided by local bakeries will be served prior to the event. For more information, call 850-229-8879 or visit www.nwrls.com
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.