Archaeology

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Archaeology History of Northwest Florida
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Types of Archaeology

• Prehistoric
• Before European Contact
• Historic
• After 1492 (Columbus First Voyage)

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PaleoIndian

• 10,000 BC- 8,000 BC
• First People to Arrive in Florida
• Hunter/Gatherer
• Stone Tools

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Archaic

• 5,000 BC- 1,000 AD
• Established First Permanent Settlements
• First to Make Pottery (Fiber Temper)
• Earliest Mound Building

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Woodland

• 1,000 BC -1000 AD
• Developed Horticulture, Bow and Arrow, and
  Refined Pottery Making (Including Shell Temper)
• Monumental Earthworks
• Elaborate Mortuary Customs

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Mississippian

• 900 AD- European Contact
• Chiefdom Government, Southern Cult Religion, Huge
  Mound Complexes, Extensive Agriculture, Vast
  Trade Network

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First Spanish Period

• Early Explorers
• 1527-1536 Narvaez
• 1539-1542 De Soto
• 1559 De Luna

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First Spanish Period

• Settlements

• Presidio Santa Maria de Galve (1698-1719)
• NAS Pensacola
• Presidio la Isla Santa Rosa (1722-1752)
• Santa Rosa Island
• Presidio San Miguel (1756-1763)
• Downtown Pensacola

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French Occupation

• 1791-1722
• Took Presidio Santa Maria de Galve
• Burned it before Returning Pensacola to the
  Spanish

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British Occupation

• 1763-1783
• Fort of Pensacola (Originally San Miguel)
• Treaty of Paris ends American Revolution
  Returns Florida to Spanish

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Second Spanish Period

• 1783-1821
• Trade led by Panton Leslie Company
• 1816-1821 Andrew Jackson leads Military Campaigns
  through Florida

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American Territory

• 1821-1845
• Major Fort Construction
• Lumber, Railroad, Industrial Development

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Statehood, Civil War, Reconstruction

• 1845-1876
• 1861 Confederates Attack Ft. Pickens
• Industry Rebuilds

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Progressive Era Early 20th Century

• Lumber, Fishing, Brick Making Industrial Boom
• 1906 Last Yellow Fever Epidemic
• 1906, 1916, 1916 Major Hurricanes

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Northwest Florida Today