Belle Glade culture

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The Belle Glade culture was a prehistoric Native American archaeological culture of southern Florida, characterized by earthwork mounds, extensive wetland adaptations, and association with the later Mayaimi people around Lake Okeechobee.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American culture
archaeological culture
prehistoric culture
archaeologicalRegion Everglades region
Kissimmee River valley
Lake Okeechobee Basin
associatedWith Lake Okeechobee
Mayaimi people
culturalArea Eastern North America
Southeastern Woodlands
economyBasedOn fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
maize agriculture
endDate circa 1700 CE
environmentAdaptation lake margin habitation
seasonally flooded landscapes
wetland adaptation
flourishedDuring 1st millennium CE
2nd millennium CE
hasCharacteristic burial mounds
canal systems
circular earthworks
earthwork mounds
extensive wetland adaptations
midden mounds
pond excavations
hasSite Big Mound City
Fort Center
Ortona Mounds
Tony’s Mound
hasTypeSite Belle Glade site
locatedIn Florida
United States
southern Florida
materialCulture Belle Glade Plain ceramics
bone tools
sand-tempered plain pottery
shell tools
namedAfter Belle Glade, Florida
predecessorOf Mayaimi chiefdom
relatedTo Calusa
Glades culture
Tequesta
startDate circa 500 BCE
studiedBy archaeologists
timePeriod Late Archaic period
Woodland period

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Mayaimi people
archaeologicalCultureAssociated

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