Glades culture

The Glades culture is an archaeological culture in southernmost Florida that lasted from about 500 BCE until shortly after European contact. The people in the culture area were hunter-gatherers with some semi-permanent villages. At the time of European contact, the people of the Glades culture area included the Tequesta people, who lived along the southernmost Atlantic Coast of Florida, in the Everglades, and likely in the Florida Keys, and the Jaega people, who lived along the Atlantic Coast north of the Tequesta. The Muspa people lived on Marco Island in the northern Ten Thousand Islands, which had been part of the Glades culture area until about 1300, when Glades-style pottery and other artifacts found at the Muspa site were replaced by ones similar to those of the Caloosahatchee culture.