- Glades culture
The Glades culture is an
archaeological culture in southernmostFlorida that lasted from about500 BCE until shortly afterEurope an contact. Its area included theEverglades , theFlorida Keys , the Atlantic coast of Florida north through present-day Martin County and the Gulf coast north to Marco Island in Collier County. It did not include the area aroundLake Okeechobee , which was part of theBelle Glade culture . Two, or possibly three, areas at the extremities of the cultural area are recognized as variant districts: the Ten Thousand Islands district in southern coastal Collier County and northern Monroe County, the East Okeechobee district in eastern Martin and Palm Beach counties, and, with less certainty, the Florida Keys. At the time of first European contact, the Ten Thousand Islands district was part of theCalusa domain, the East Okeechobee district was occupied by theJaega tribe, and the area of Broward and Miami-Dade counties was occupied by theTequesta tribe. The inhabitants of the Florida Keys were called "Matecumbes" by the Spanish, but it is not clear how distinct they were from the Tequesta.The Glades culture is defined almost entirely on the basis of
pottery . Much of the pottery throughout the Glades culture period was undecorated, and is identified as Glades primarily by the character of the sand and grit included in the clay used to form the pottery. Pots decorated with puncture marks and incisions appeared after 800, but were not very common. Decorated pots disappeared from the record in about 1100. Pots with a new type of incised decoration appeared about 1200 and lasted for about 200 years. Pottery attributed to theSt. Johns culture started appearing in the archeological record after that.ee also
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Indigenous people of the Everglades region References
*Milanich, Jerald T. (1998). "Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe". Gainesville, Florida: The University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1636-3.
*State of Florida Office of Cultural and Historical Programs. "Chapter 12. South and Southeast Florida: The Everglades Region, 2500 B.P.-Contact". "Historic Contexts". Version of 9-27-93. Downloaded from [http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/facts/reports/contexts/comp_plan.doc] onMarch 27 2006
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