Length and wore only tanned breech clouts of deerskin fastened with fancy belts
In the warm Florida sun, they let their hair grow hip They were powerfully built men, often four inches Mound Key, an island west of Fort Myers, was the center of this large Calusa Empire.
A new tribe that entered Florida either from the islands or the north at the startĭominated South Florida with their statute, Labor reflected a stable, complex agrarian society.Īlong the southwest Gulf coast lived the Calusa ( Caloosa) Indians.
Most of the planting and probably accumulated the most food. Warriors and hunters were the most common job, but skilled pottersĪnd canoe makers were given great status. Status in the village, and only a major crisis altered the predetermined story The sun god showed the impact religion had on their daily lives.Įach Indian was born into a particular occupational Large burial mounds and temple mounds for sacrifice to Their chief ally was the shaman, or medicine man, who performedĪll necessary rituals. The absolute rulers were the cacique and his council of noblemen. Along the perimeter of the wall were humbleįamily dwellings, furnished only with beds of reeds, three legged stools, andįood storage pottery.The presence of a good water supply was the key not just for drinking, bathing, and cooking, but for fishing, hunting, and collecting food. A single opening led to the village plaza where the cacique or chieftain resided and the Grills and stored in pine needle baskets or clay containers in tribalĪ typical Timucuan village sometimes consisted of a cluster of small huts surrounded by a circular twelve foot high wall of Turkey, and small game in the forests became important. In the summer, the planting of maize, squash, andīeans dominated village life, while in the lean months of winter, hunting deer, An inter tribal dialect developedīy traders united the tribes. The Timucuans and Apalachees were divided into numerous independent villages,Įach with a leader. Them farming skills beyond those tribes of the South. These people were latecomers to Florida and brought with Located between the Aucilla River and the Atlantic Organized, farming tribes the Apalachee of the Tallahassee Hills Warehouses protected by large temple and burial mounds.Ībout 500 years ago the native people became known as the Woodland Indians. Archaic Indians developed spears and dugout canoes. Indians were divided into many large groupings. to 1500 A.D.) brought farming and pottery skills.Ĭommerce with Indians outside Florida broughtĬopper, iron ore, and seeds of maize in exchange for Florida freshwater pearls, conch shells, and In the winter months tribes fished theĮra (1000 B.C. The North or the islands changed their skills. Small villages of about 25 people led by a male leader was the norm.Įight thousand years ago the earth started to warm and Florida became smaller and more tropical. Their small huts of animal furs and started a more stable existence.Florida was twice as large as it is today, but extremely dryu with few lakes or rivers. In the mild climate of Florida, they settled in Theįire drill was their highest technology. Were nomadic hunters, using crude spears and arrows of flint and stone. Remains of first Floridians are discovered in springs such as Warm Mineral Hunters crossed the frozen wastelands of the Bering Strait from Asia to the Americas.Īfter countless generations of traveling southward into warmer climates andĮventually eastward, some of these hunters arrived in Florida.įlorida was probably one of the last places in theĪmericas to have human inhabitants although every year earlier and earlier Some twenty-five thousand years before the birth of Christ, when NorthĪmerica was still inhabited by prehistoric beasts, small tribes of primitive
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