Safety Harbor archaeological culture

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The Safety Harbor archaeological culture was a late pre-Columbian Native American culture of Florida’s Gulf Coast, best known as the cultural tradition associated with the Tocobaga and related chiefdoms encountered by early Spanish explorers.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf archaeological culture
pre-Columbian culture
associatedWith Mocoso
Pohoy
Tocobaga
Uzita
burialPractice mound burials with grave goods
coreArea northern and eastern Tampa Bay
country United States of America
surface form: United States
declineCause European-introduced diseases
Spanish colonial disruption
economy mixed agriculture, fishing, hunting, and gathering
encounteredBy Hernando de Soto expedition
Pánfilo de Narváez expedition of 1528
surface form: Pánfilo de Narváez expedition
endTime circa 1725 CE
floruit circa 1000–1600 CE
followedBy mission-period Native communities of Florida
hasCapital Safety Harbor site
surface form: Safety Harbor chiefdom
hasCharacteristic Mississippian-style ceremonialism
burial mounds
chiefdom-level social organization
copper and shell ornaments
engraved and incised ceramics
intensive fishing and shellfishing
long-distance trade networks
maize agriculture
platform mounds
plaza-centered villages
ranked social hierarchy
shell middens
shell-tempered pottery
hasTypeSite Safety Harbor site
surface form: Safety Harbor Site
interactedWith Spanish Empire
locatedIn Florida
Florida Gulf Coast
Tampa Bay area
surface form: Tampa Bay region
materialCulture Safety Harbor ceramics
bone tools
shell tools
namedAfter Safety Harbor, Florida
partOf Eastern Woodlands
surface form: Eastern Woodlands cultural area
politicalOrganization multiple interacting chiefdoms
precededBy Weeden Island culture
region central Florida Gulf Coast
religion southeastern Native ceremonial complex
startTime circa 900 CE
timePeriod Late Woodland period
Mississippian period

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Tocobaga archaeologicalCulture Safety Harbor archaeological culture