To satisfy your craving to dig into the past, we present an abbreviated timeline of the last 10 centuries in the St. Augustine area. As the year 2000 crests, a strong interest in the history of the old millennium has surfaced. To satisfy your craving to dig into the past, we present an abbreviated timeline of the last 10 centuries in the St. Augustine area. A.D. Northeast Florida's native inhabitants organize themselves into large communities with complex social systems and sophisticated political ties. The cultivation of corn, squash, pumpkin and beans develops.
Pottery becomes more decorative.
Skilled hunters, the natives are masters of the bow and arrow. A.D. Native people settle along the St. Johns River and the lagoons and estuaries of the East Coast where they find abundant shellfish, river fish and wild game. A migratory lifestyle gives way to villages and ceremonial centers. A.D. Villagers become accomplished fishermen, venturing in dugout canoes to deep ocean waters to catch shark with baited bone hooks. At high tide they stretch a net across the mouth of the channel.