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Glades culture

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TheGlades cultureis anarchaeological culturein southernmostFloridathat lasted from about 500 BCE until shortly afterEuropeancontact. Its area included theEverglades,theFlorida Keys,theAtlanticcoast of Florida north through present-dayMartin Countyand theGulfcoast north toMarco IslandinCollier 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: theTen Thousand Islandsdistrict in southern coastal Collier County and northernMonroe County,the East Okeechobee district in eastern Martin andPalm Beachcounties, and, with less certainty, the Florida Keys. At the time of first European contact, the Ten Thousand Islands district was part of theCalusadomain, the East Okeechobee district was occupied by theJaegatribe, and the area ofBrowardandMiami-Dadecounties was occupied by theTequestatribe. The inhabitants of the Florida Keys were calledMatecumbesby theSpanish,but it is not clear how distinct they were from the Tequesta.

The Glades culture is defined almost entirely on the basis ofpottery.Much of the pottery throughout the Glades culture period was undecorated. It 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 500, 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 culturestarted appearing in the archeological record after that. On the basis of pottery sequences, the Glades culture period is divided into Glades I, 500 BCE to 750 CE, Glades II, 900 to 1200, and Glades III, 1200 to 1513.[1]

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  1. ^Milanich 1994:300-301

References

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  • Milanich, Jerald T. (1994).Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida.Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.ISBN0-8130-1273-2.
  • Milanich, Jerald T. (1998) [1995].Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe(Paperback ed.). Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.ISBN0-8130-1636-3.
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  • Austin, Daniel F. (Summer–Fall 1997)."The Glades Indians And the Plants they Used: Ethnobotany of an Extinct Culture"(PDF).The Palmetto, Quarterly Journal of the Florida Native Plant Society.17(2). Florida Native Plant Society.
  • "Precolumbian People of Big Cypress"(PDF).National Park Service. 2011.
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  • Schwadron, Margo. Big Cypress National Preserve Archaeological Assessment, 2000.