Belle Glade culture
Belle Glade culture appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Eastern Woodlands (North America) from c. 1000 BCE to 1700 CE, a span of 2,699 years. The language of its people is unknown or undeciphered.
Also called the Okeechobee culture, it existed around Lake Okeechobee and in the Kissimmee River valley in Florida from as early as 1000 BCE until about 1700 CE. It resembles its Caloosahatchee and Glades neighbours and has many sites with complex earthworks of a unique style.
See Belle Glade culture on the interactive timeline
Facts
- Dates
- c. 1000 BCE to 1700 CE
- Duration
- 2,699 years
- Type
- People or culture
- Region
- Eastern Woodlands, North America
- Language family
- Unknown or undeciphered
Sources
The dates and description above were checked against Wikipedia: Belle Glade culture.
Events in North America during its time
- Hopewell exchange network flourishes
- Erik the Red settles Greenland
- Norse reach Vinland
- Cahokia grows into a city
- The Great Drought
- John Cabot reaches Newfoundland
- De Soto and Coronado expeditions
- Jamestown founded
Neighbours in North America
- New France
- Thirteen Colonies
- Norse Greenland
- Rupert's Land (Hudson's Bay Company)
- French Louisiana
- Norse Vinland base (L'Anse aux Meadows)
- Spanish Florida
- Santa Fe de Nuevo México
- Spanish Texas
- Acadia
Elsewhere in the world at the same time
- Republic of Venice
- Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine Empire
- Ghana Empire (Wagadu)
- Kingdom of Aksum
- Holy Roman Empire
- Swahili city-states
- Srivijaya
- Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty)
- Moche (Mochica)
Questions
When did Belle Glade culture exist?
c. 1000 BCE to 1700 CE, about 2,699 years. These dates are approximate, because the evidence for its beginning or end is uncertain.
Where was Belle Glade culture?
Eastern Woodlands, in North America.
What language did the people of Belle Glade culture speak?
It is unknown. No readable writing records it, so any link to a known language family is a hypothesis.