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Extinct Indians->Flo: The Timucua Indians - After the Europeans Came - (1562 - 1767)
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 23:05:11 PDT (14243 reads)

When Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, and "discovered" the Americas, he brought many changes. Over the next seventy years, the Spanish sent ships up the east coast of North America, but focused on Florida’s west coast and Central and South America. Although the Spanish did meet the Timucuas, much of our information about these Native Americans comes from the French. The French explorers lived in the Jacksonville area, near Chief Saturiwa and his people, for a little over a year.

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Extinct Indians->Flo: Woodland Period - St. Johns Cultures - 500 BC to 1500 AD
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 22:59:46 PDT (7627 reads)

By 500 BC, the St. Johns culture has become firmly established. A change in pottery-making methods marks this shift. Pots are made by coil construction rather than by simply forming pots from a slab, and the tempers have changed. Pelotes Island is affected by Georgia styles and Florida styles. Up in Georgia, sand was used as a temper to harden the clay. Sometimes pottery with both sand and fibers are found, demonstrating the slow shift to new technology. The Florida style required the potter to use clay from fresh water sources containing fresh-water sponges.

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Extinct Indians->Flo: Late Archaic Period - Orange Culture -2000 - 1000 BC
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 22:57:36 PDT (7835 reads)

The earliest hard evidence we have for Native American occupation of Pelotes and Pinders Islands dates from about 2000 BC. Both islands possesses shell middens (giant oyster trash piles) which are full of fiber-tempered pottery. This pottery was made by mixing clay with fibers from Spanish moss or saw palmetto and firing it. The fibers function as a temper and keep the pot from cracking during the firing process.

Firing makes the pot hard and waterproof. This pottery is usually plain, but sometimes decorated with incising (lines scratched into the wet clay). The pottery shards found are approximately 1/2 inch thick, and would have made very heavy pots. This fiber-tempered pottery, called Orange Period wares, was first invented along the Florida-Georgia Coast. It was used from 2000-1000 BC.

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Extinct Indians->Flo: Who Were the Tocobago Indians?
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 22:54:30 PDT (9756 reads)

The Tocobago Indians were a group of prehistoric and historic Native Americans living near Tampa Bay, Florida up until roughly 1760. The archaeological name for this and adjacent groups in late prehistoric (pre-European) times is the Safety Harbor culture. In the Tampa Bay area, Pinellas Plain is the usual pottery style. These artifacts may have had handles, as well as incising around the rims, but no complex designs (unless found in burial mounds.) Spanish records often refer to villages, chiefs, and chiefdoms (groups of subservient villages) with the same name. So, Tocobago, may refer to one man, a single village, or an extended alliance of villages, based on the context of the sentence.

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Extinct Indians->Flo: The Black Drink
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 22:50:12 PDT (7428 reads)

Ever wonder how prehistoric man survived without coffee? Millions of Americans depend on a morning cup of coffee to jump-start their day. Florida’s own Timucua Indians had something just as good - the Black Drink. It came from a plant called Yaupon Holly, in Latin - Ilex vomitoria. How could a plant with a name like that rival modern coffee?

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Extinct Indians->Flo: What happened to the Timucua?
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 22:48:06 PDT (10762 reads)

AUTHOR: Dr. Jerald T. Milanich

In the early sixteenth century native people who spoke the Timucua language occupied most of the northern one-third of peninsular Florida (east of the Aucilla River), apparently not including the Gulf of Mexico coast. The Timucua also inhabited southeastern Georgia as far north as the Altamaha River. In 1492 this large area, about 19,200 square miles, was home to approximately 200,000 people.

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