Timeline

Culture Period

Time Span

Florida Archeological Timeline

Old World Events

Acculturation

1600 A.D.
to
1710 A.D.

Arrival of the Spanish imposed drastic changes of native cultures. Most of the Indian population wiped out by disease and harsh treatment.

1689 - Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia

1608 - Galileo constructs astronomical telescope

Mississippian

1000 A.D.
to
1600 A.D.

1513 - Ponce de Leon discovers Florida.
1492 - Columbus discovers America.Triangular shaped projectile points. Agriculture of corn, beans, and squash.

1350 - 1400- Black death kills one third of European population

1321 - Dantes Divine Comedy published

1155 - Genghis Khan born

Woodland

1200 B.C.
to
1000 A.D.

Improved pottery, ceremonial earth works, elaborate burial practices. Settled communites with more complex political systems and religious practices.

1,184 B.C. - Trojan War

750 B.C. - Homer composes The Illiad & Oddysey

58 - 51 B.C. - Caesar's Gallic Wars

Late
Archaic

2000 B.C.
to
1200 B.C.

Fiber-tempered plain and decorated ceramic pots appeared. Oak and hardwood forests give way to pines and mixed forests.

1500 B.C. - Approx. completion of Stonehenge

Middle Archaic

5000 B.C.
to
2000 B.C.

Increasingly sedentary population using a greater variety of tools. Sea stabilized to about present day.

2500 B.C. - Bronze age begins

Early
Archaic

6000 B.C.
to
5000 B.C.

Beginnings of settled communites. Fisher-hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Larger number of stone tools. Oak and hardwood forests over much of the state.

5000 B.C. - Neolithic (new stone age) begins in Europe

Paleoindian

12,000 B.C.
to
6000 B.C.

Florida coastline streached 60 - 100 miles beyond present day coastline. Large mammals, such as mammoths, mastodons, and the giant ground sloths roamed Florida.

8000 B.C. - Beginnings of agriculture in Europe