Safety Harbor culture

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The Safety Harbor culture was a late pre-Columbian Native American archaeological culture of Florida’s Gulf Coast, known for its mound-building chiefdoms and associated with the ancestors of groups such as the Tocobaga.

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Safety Harbor culture canonical 2
Safety Harbor phase 1

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instanceOf Native American culture
archaeological culture
pre-Columbian culture
archaeologicalPhase Safety Harbor culture self-linksurface differs
surface form: Safety Harbor phase
associatedWith Mocoso
Pohoy
Tocobaga
Uzita
contactEvent Hernando de Soto expedition
Pánfilo de Narváez expedition of 1528
surface form: Narváez expedition
contactWith Spanish explorers
coreArea Hillsborough County, Florida NERFINISHED
Manatee County, Florida NERFINISHED
Pinellas County, Florida NERFINISHED
Tampa Bay area
surface form: Tampa Bay region

Sarasota County, Florida
surface form: northern Sarasota County, Florida
country United States of America
surface form: United States
declineCause European diseases
Spanish colonial disruption
endTime circa 1700 CE
followedBy historic Native American groups of Florida Gulf Coast
hasArchaeologicalSite Jungle Prada site
Maximo Point mounds
Philippe Park mounds
Safety Harbor site
Snead Island sites
Tocobaga site at Safety Harbor
hasCapital Safety Harbor site
hasCharacteristic chiefdom-level social organization
copper and shell ornaments
intensive fishing and shellfishing
maize agriculture
shell-tempered pottery
trade networks with interior Southeast
influencedBy Mississippian culture
knownFor burial mounds
mound-building chiefdoms
platform mounds
shell middens
languageFamilyAssociated Muskogean languages (possible for some groups)
Timucuan languages (probable for some groups)
locatedIn Florida
namedAfter Safety Harbor, Florida
partOf Eastern Woodlands
surface form: Eastern Woodlands cultural area
precededBy Weeden Island culture
region Florida Gulf Coast
religion southeastern ceremonial complex elements
startTime circa 900 CE
timePeriod Late Prehistoric period

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Tocobaga partOf Safety Harbor culture
Safety Harbor culture archaeologicalPhase Safety Harbor culture self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Safety Harbor phase
Safety Harbor site partOf Safety Harbor culture